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I had just gotten out of the Metro station when I saw a man approaching. He was talking to the woman walking next to him who was pushing a stroller with a baby inside and was holding the hand of another child. As they passed me he started making kissy noises and other gross comments […]

I was walking to work around 8:30 AM a few weeks ago and saw a guy leaning against a tree opposite a church. He was looking over his shoulders as if he was waiting for someone. My instinct told me to cross the street but I asked myself “what could he possibly do to me […]

This post has a positive outcome that I wanted to share with you! I’ve been a long time patron and friend of the Black Cat, but there is a guy that has come for years specifically to harass young, intoxicated women (no power issue there huh??) He is a stout middle-aged man with wire-framed glasses […]

I was walking home and a group of about 5 twenty something men were walking down the sidewalk in the other direction. As I get closer one of them says, “Hey, baby. Will you marry me?” A couple of them start snickering. I keep walking fast past them, but was too scared to say anything […]

Unfortunately, this is the 2nd story that I am submitting. I had just gotten a 2-hour-long root canal done in Old Town Alexandria and had metroed home to the U Street stop. I obviously a) didn’t look great, bundled up after a huge snow and my face swollen and b) didn’t want to speak with […]