I seem to be a stalker magnet.
I was first stalked when I was 12 years old, by a man in his 30's or 40's. That was back before there were real stalker laws. My parents and neighbors were constantly having to call the police when they would find the man sitting out in front of our house, and even a couple times trying to look in my bedroom window.
Then again when I was in my early 20's, a man who was a client at the mental health center I worked at would follow me around town, and would show up at my apartment complex. I would be sitting out at the pool reading, and suddenly find him sitting in the chair next to me. I sat down with him and the psychiatrist at our mental health center a few times and we discussed the inappropriateness (and I had him transferred to another caseworker), and he finally stopped on his own.
Again in my later 20's, someone was following me in a rental car (I had a friend who is a cop run the plate) when I would leave to go to lunch at work, and back. Finally one day he got out of the car when I got out at the office, and I ran inside. He got back in his car and sat on the road outside the office. I called the sheriff, but they would not come out for whatever reason. I worked at a construction company, and told several of the crewmen what was going on. They went down to his car and confronted him and he never bothered me again. I don't know what they said to him.
Twice.
