Back story first. Sorry this is a bit long. Ten years ago my husband left me because he wanted kids and I was too old and not even sure if I was still fertile. He said there was no-one else. It turned out there was someone else - a colleague at his work and oh gosh, she was already pregnant. We were part of a big friendship group In our street one friend was the OWs boss and it turned out she and the whole group knew about it, and had known all through the break up, but no one told me when I was looking to them for support and to make sense of it all. As a result, I decided they were not my friends and have had nothing to do with any of them since.
One of the ex friends has made a point of trying to engage with me (a bloke and an aggressive bloke too) and I made it clear that I was not going to respond. He started to shout at me if he saw me in the street, calling me a rude bitch and other nasty names. It came to a head a year or so ago when he started shouting at me when he was passing my house and I responded saying if he swore at me again I would call the police. He called me a fucking cunt and so I followed through and called the police via 101. They were great and took it seriously and went round to tell him to stop and that it was clear that I did not want to engage with him.
Fast forward to 3 months ago, I drove my car round a bend in a narrow car lined street and found myself head to head with this man and his wife in their car. I looked behind to see if there was anywhere to back up and another car drew up behind me. I indicated to them by pointing that they (him and her) needed to back up (there was a space just two cars length behind them) , but he started to make obscene gestures and refused) eventually she backed into the space (clearly not a good reverser, she wiggled all over the road but it’s beside the point). I drove on, I didn’t thank them with a wave because he’d been giving me Vs and the finger the whole time. Thought nothing more of it.
Until today... I’m scraping ice off my car when he appears, walking along the road and he stops by my car and says “oh look it’s misery face” I ignored him. But he continued with “if you ever do anything like what you did to me and DW...” to which I replied, “that sounds like a threat, if you don’t stop I will call the police again”. He continued to berate me and I said, “what part of I don’t want anything to do with you do you not get?” and climbed into my car and drove away.
This man is 64 years old, I’m 58, this is ridiculous but I am still shaking, He frightens me. I’m not sure if this is worthy of calling the police again, but I don’t want to be scared of stepping outside my house. I suppose this is “a what should I do?” Leave it, and call the rozzers if he does it again or call them anyway?