T.A.

Touchers Anonymous, that's what this guy needs, its down right creepy. He approaches you as if he is plucked right out of "night of the living dead" with his arms extended forward and his fingers wiggling. And his goal? to reach you and squeeze your neck, squeeze your ears, dig his knuckles into your back. It is quite disturbing, it has been going on for quite some time, and people have questioned his sexuality because of it. He has a daughter and was married, I am fairly sure he is straight. But something happened, something manifested itself in his drug use- after affects: excessive touching, grabbing, and creepy looks. I thought it was funny at first, like when your friend approaches you and pretends your boxing or some other kind of Corney male interaction, but this...this is different. He is old, covered in tattoos, temperamental, and weird. He has a temper that seems to go from 0-60 in under 2 seconds...coupled with the touching and you have a wicked combination. For example, he approached you and does what he does best, touches, and you move away or say something like " you creepy s.o.b. leave me alone" and he flips, as if at one point in his life god came to him and said " I your lord, give you the power to touch all you come into contact with", like he feels some divine entitlement to a squeeze or two.

I really don't know what to make of the whole situation, I just know that i run when I see him and hide in some nook or cove where I am invisible to his creepy line of sight. I seem to be a regular target of this, he will pass up 5 or 6 people in the hall just to get to me, like a seen from a movie - I watch him move in slow motion never looking at the people in front of him , magically moving through the crowd untouched as he approaches, when the bus passes between us that's when I disappear, and he is left looking for me...creep.

I find it hard to separate the odd pre-drug use behaviors from the outlandish post-drug use behaviors, all I do know for sure is that they are weird and make me never want to be surrounded by people like this again in this close of quarters.