to think hitting on a mother with a pushchair is inappropriate/creepy?

[totalmisfit]

just walking back from the nearest town to our village,along lonely country roads, after dd's doctor's appointment. some guy stops his van (has a ladder on the roof) and asks for directions to a nearby road. I give directions and continue.

5 minutes later i hear someone shouting behind me. Turn round and it's this same guy, who's come back from whatever it is he was looking for and is now following me. He says 'I found it... erm, i was just wondering, i mean, you're probably married but i just wondered if i could take you for a drink sometime.'

I waved my wedding ring in his direction and said 'I am married.' He goes back to van and i continue walking. He drives past me, much too close and honks his horn really loudly, which makes me jump a bit. The whole thing has left me feeling a bit weird. Is this just because no-one has hit on me since 2005, or am i right to be slightly creeped out by it?

should just add i am very noticeably pregnant, this guy had also noticed hence letting me squeeze in!

OP, YANBU to be be creeped out. Your instinct told you something was up and that's good enough.

This idea that women must always be flattered by attention from some random bloke...well, it's just daft.

I read that as "hitting a mother with a pushchair" and was all ready to come in and be all ranty that someone had clobbered you with a pushchair... then realised that they may have hit you but not WITH a pushchair it was YOU who had the pushchair...then read the thread and realised you were being hit ON.

Have realised I need a) glasses and b) wine

yanbu at all. I got hit on in the supermarket carpark once when I had about 3 mega packs of nappies at the top of my giant trolley. I actually wasn't creeped out but thought the guy must be pretty thick

I'd have been very unnerved by this....only because of the location though.

There is a big difference, actually, between falling into friendly conversation with a stranger (ie when you are both waiting at the bus stop - and if one person doesn't respond positively, the instigator takes the hint) which, after a while, might include a polite invitation to meet again, and pretty much stopping someone in the street to ask them for a date - which is wierd. Even if the guy doing it looks like Brad Pitt, it's still almost certainly not going to feel like being in a romcom, it's going to feel weird (Oh and of course, being good looking doesn't make a man not a rapist/serial killer, any more than looking revolting and smelling horrible means a person is definitely dangerous).
Though I have to say I can think of a worse thing than chatting up a woman with a pushchair, and that's mugging a woman with a pushchair and stealing her phone. Yes, someone did that to me when DS was about 8 months old - and because I had the pushchair I couldn't chase him and kick the shit out of him...