One of the worst I remember is being about 14. I wore a lot of make up etc and looked older (generally), so had been on a night out to pubs with a (literal) girlfriend. However, at the last pub, got into an altercation with bar staff after taking our money for our drinks, then taking it off us whilst I was in the bathroom because we looked underage. I wanted a refund and then to leave, but the manager was having none of it. I was being aggressive, to be fair, but the manager absolutely was egging me on and finding it hilarious. (It doesn't excuse my behaviour, and I'm ashamed about this as this is the furthest from the person I am now, and wouldn't say boo to a goose, very shy and reserved now).
I'm embarrassed to say I launched up off the table at the manager (have no idea what I would have done, slapped him maybe?). Yes I was a 14 year old with an attitute problem, and thought as I was stocky/chubby, I could take care of myself.
Until I felt a very sharp pain on my head, and body, and was brought back down to earth.
Another customer (man), looked in his 30's, but maybe could have been in his 20's I suppose, had grabbed me by my hair, and my waist so fucking hard, and I've to this day, never quite felt pain like it. I remember him saying something to the manager, to the effect of he knows me (he didn't), and he'll get me out and on my way.
At the point he grabbed me, I should say, I did completely stop moving, wasn't fighting or anything. He dragged me out by my hair and body. Once outside, he let go, and started trying to be friendly and walk with us. He explained he was just trying to get me out of there so I didn't get in trouble, and the manager was a dick. I asked my girlfriend if she'd come back with me, or I could go to hers, as it was quite obvious I was nervous about this man. She said she couldn't, she had to get home. The man still walking with us at this point, I asked her for a private word, took her aside, and told her I was frightened by this man, that I thought he would follow me home. She didn't care, and I assume was (quite rightly) mortified by my behaviour in the pub (though not enough to not see me again, at her insistence, her excuse when I asked her about this was she 'thought i'd be fine'), and left me and went home. I told the guy I was fine, didn't live far and was going home. It didn't deter him.
All I remember was trying to walk home, about a mile, and for half of it this guy was walking with me, grabbing me by my hair and my body, roughly, ragging me everywhere and it left me with bruises and my head was killing. I kept asking him to stop, telling him he was hurting me, but he wouldn't. I remember telling him if he just let go of me, I'd walk fine. He wasn't holding me up - I was able to walk. Somehow, I ended up one the opposite side of the road at some point? And I was in such agony I just collapsed and sat down on the roadside kerb so he'd hopefully let go of me and relieve some of the pain. I honestly don't know what he was trying to do. It was a road with houses all around, although well past midnight so quiet as a ghosttown. I think I remember something about him trying to get me to go back to his, but I can't be sure. It was down a road that I knew had a very secluded woody bit, and I had this feeling if I went down there with him, he would do something bad to me.
At this point, I'm sat on a kerb, and this guy is still pulling my head around by my hair. Pulling me by my hair to face his face etc. I don't know why or what he was trying to do, but I do remember the pain seemed to last forever, until a car pulled up, and a woman roughly middle age, in the drivers seat shouted his name, 'Weirdoman! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LEAVE HER ALONE!' and there was some terse words back and forth, I think he maybe said I was drunk and he was helping me, and the woman shouted back 'Leave her alone!' during which I got up and left, he followed me a while, and I ran the rest of the way home.
I went the shops in the morning for a hangover drink and saw him. He acted liked he had no fucking clue who I was.
I can understand the rough treatment in the pub, I deserved it if thats what it took to get me out. What I don't understand, is why this guy was walking with me, but pulling my hair everywhere whilst doing so, or why so rough. Part of me excuses that maybe he was trying to direct me home, and he was concerned I wouldn't get home if he didn't get me home, as I was so inebriated, and as I was a bigger girl, I was perhaps being a handful. But, I'd been inebriated in the past, and had two men carry me up a flight of stairs (very tall/big men, harmless and kind) who never hurt me in the slightest!
I remember he was only about an inch taller than me (and I'm short) and was quite slim, didn't seem muscular, and being completely gobsmacked at how fucking strong this man was, who was physically smaller than me. I couldn't get over it. I've never known pain like it. He wasn't hitting me, but the pulling at me and ragging me around was agony.
I wish I could remember more of it, to make sense of it, but I was obviously inebriated at the time. That one never left me and made me cautious of men, even if they seem smaller than me.