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It depended on where I was living and working. When I lived in one neighborhood - I would get whistled at and yelled at from the minute I stepped outside my door. It got to the point where I would just ignore everyone. When I worked at the front desk at a gym - I would get hit on by the trainers and members a lot - probably not every day but fairly often. When I catered and had to wear a god awful outfit - I got hit on less but still occasionally by the other caterers or sometimes a party goer. When I would go out with friends, I would get hit on, too. Basically, living in NYC, I got hit on quite often. Out here in the burbs, I rarely get hit on. Of course, I have spent most of my time being pregnant and carting around little ones with me! Plus, it's mostly families out here. This one guy flirted with me at the grocery store when I was out with my son and he was out with his teenage daughter. He was nice but it was a bit awkward as he called himself out on it, I'm married, and it was in front of his teenage daughter!
I'm not sure what I could change or would change. It is what it is. I've pretty much always been in a relationship so I never dated any of the guys that hit on me.
By hit on, you mean overt and obvious? Quite a bit when I lived in the South. Now, I get stares and smiles, but rarely, if ever, approached in person.
Same here and one of the benefits of age is that the really stupid stuff has died down. There were times when I felt like a piece of meat and that is not flattering. Now I'm thrilled if they just check me out.
When I used to be a pool lifeguard (ages 16, 17, 18) I got hit on all the time--several times a day. I worked at an apartment complex one year, the YMCA another, and a hotel the last year. Especially at the hotel men thought I would go to their rooms with them. And it was always by much older men (30s-60s but sometimes young Airmen from the Airforce Base who were maybe in their 20s--but it still seemed like ages apart from my point of view). I didn't care for it because it creeped me out as a kid (yeah, I was a kid). If I could change something about it, it would be that it was guys my own age (and without the overt "come to my room" invites)... then maybe I would have had a date to the prom
I still get hit on by older men... I don't know what it is about me that causes this. And I would still prefer to be hit on by men closer to my own age. But now I am more accepting of up to 10 years older and it doesn't creep me out anymore as I am more mature and able to handle myself better.
When I used to be a pool lifeguard (ages 16, 17, 18) I got hit on all the time--several times a day. I worked at an apartment complex one year, the YMCA another, and a hotel the last year. Especially at the hotel men thought I would go to their rooms with them. And it was always by much older men (30s-60s but sometimes young Airmen from the Airforce Base who were maybe in their 20s--but it still seemed like ages apart from my point of view). I didn't care for it because it creeped me out as a kid (yeah, I was a kid). If I could change something about it, it would be that it was guys my own age (and without the overt "come to my room" invites)... then maybe I would have had a date to the prom
I still get hit on by older men... I don't know what it is about me that causes this. And I would still prefer to be hit on by men closer to my own age. But now I am more accepting of up to 10 years older and it doesn't creep me out anymore as I am more mature and able to handle myself better.
Its an interesting point re the older men. I've seen it all the time in everyday life too.
Its like the older guys have a free license to do and say what they want, obscene, crude, whatever.
Its much more rare to see younger guys behave similarly.
When I was younger a lot. Now that I'm older once every six months.
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