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  • Can I Tan In Peace? Creep.

    There's only this weekend and next weekend before the pool is closed again. *sigh*, how depressing of a thought.

    Usually, whatever days on my days off are sunny and warm, I will lay out by the pool and try to get some color. Especially these past few weekends because soon, it will be fall and there will be no other way to get some rays than in a tanning bed. I'd like to preserve a little tone for fall. And, as stupid as it sounds, it makes me feel so relaxed and fancy to be able to lay down next to a pool, even if it's not that great or fancy.

    Last Friday afternoon, it was later in the day, sometime around 4, I was doing my usual routine where I lay facing the pool with from my knees down (or close to that) in the water.

    I hadn't been there long, but I was just about to doze off when a shadow blocked my sun.

    The damn maintenance guy from the property management company, who is here practically every day, several times, to be a pain in the ass or use our dumpsters for his own personal dumping.........he found some reason to need to come into the pool area.

    "Are you sleeping in the sun?" he asks.

    I open my eyes (I was wearing sunglasses) and said "No, I'm awake. Trying to sleep, though" as a subtle hint to go away.

    He squats down next to me and starts telling me about all the empty apartments here and how he'd been interviewing people and showing them off all day.

    Um...I am in a string bikini here, just to illustrate. One that doesn't particularly fit very well on top. And I am laying here. And you're just squatting here next to me, fully clothed, and bugging me.

    He checked the chemical levels in the pool and monkeyed around with a few things in the small pool house (it's mostly for supplies) and finally left.

    I went back in my apartment, showered and changed into my pjs, went out to smoke, and told my neighbor, who was having his nightly cigar outside. He said "That guy is such a creep. All you young ladies around here, that's why he's always here!" and ellaborated that all the years he's lived here, he's always thought that guy was a creep towards girls, and he just doesn't care for him in general because he thinks he's always trying to see what you're up to as a tenant.

    Then, just yesterday (because it was my short work week), I got into my bikini and went to lay out in the sun between 10:30-11 am. I know, very early and whe the rays are the worst, but I get out there when I can, whatever time it may be. Anyway, this time, I HAD been sleeping. At first, it wasn't that warm out, so I wasn't dangling my legs in the water. Then I was.

    All of a sudden, a male voice loudly says "Don't you look peaceful!" and it startled the hell out of me. Then he proceeded to say "I wish I could fall asleep whenever, wherever like that."

    Then he played around in the pool house some more and left.

    It's harmless, I'm sure. I'm just venting. It irritated me.
    You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

  • #2
    i'd say.... you can still talk to the building manager.
    say that he always comes out to bug you when you're in your bikini ... that he magically "finds" work to do in the pool whenever you come out.

    i mean it's the truth.

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    • #3
      That would creep me out to no end. Talk to the building manager.

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      • #4
        This is not harmless. It sounds like possible sexual harassment.
        Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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        • #5
          A guy who knows where you live and has access to the keys to your place is making you feel uncomfortable while you're vulnerable.

          Uh-uh. I third the suggestion to talk to the property manager.

          That guy needs a serious talking-to from somebody with the power to fire him.

          That behavior is in no way acceptable.
          I have a map of the world. It's actual size.

          -- Steven Wright

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          • #6
            I'm just venting. He has never hit on me or made any kind of sexual comments to me. I'm moving when my lease is up, anyway.
            You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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            • #7
              That may be, but behavior like his escalates over time. Even if you do it on your way out of that apartment, you should still say something to the building manager so that there is a trail of complaints should anyone else ever have cause to complain.

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              • #8
                Agreed. If he's been there this long, and he seems to find nothing wrong with doing it to you, it likely means that he's been doing it for years to other people, and will continue to do so, as he's probably never been reprimanded for it in any effective way. Sounds like one major creeper.

                See if you can get cigar dude and others to chime in about him, as well. Even if the manager is aware of the problem and doesn't feel like doing anything about it, he can only ignore so many people...
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                • #9
                  A guy who knows where you live and has access to the keys to your place
                  bleh. i didn't think about that.

                  shudder

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                  • #10
                    Keeping silent is one of the ways that harassment continues.
                    Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Kristev View Post
                      Keeping silent is one of the ways that harassment continues.
                      true. i kept silent when a guy on my first ship (a corpsman too!) kept being nasty and trying to hit on me.


                      then one of my friends had a female problem (ahem) and he tried to convince her he could examine her himself... with his tongue.

                      During the court case maybe 3 other females came forward about him. The thing is, our ship was small and only had accommodations for 39 "blueshirt" females (enlisted E1-E6) and at the time we had a few racks free... so out of LESS than 39 females, FIVE reported some kind of sexual misconduct from him.


                      I couldn't help but think... if I had said something back when he first started getting nasty maybe my friend - and the other females - would have been left alone.

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                      • #12
                        While I'm sure blas appreciates all the great advice, I think she was just venting.

                        Quoth blas View Post

                        It's harmless, I'm sure. I'm just venting. It irritated me.
                        Too tired of living and too tired to end it. What a conundrum.

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                        • #13
                          Maybe try taking a spare towel with you. Anytime he comes by, you drape it over yourself. It might make him go away quicker and leave you in peace to finish tanning.
                          "Man, having a conversation with you is like walking through a salvador dali painting." - Mac Hall

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