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[crazylemongirl]

One of the reasons that I like shopping at costco is I can avoid the supermarket stalkers. Well apparently they have now infiltrated costco too.

I saw him making eyes at me when my friend and I were coming in. We decided to have dinner in the hopes that he'd be gone and we'd be able to do our shopping in peace without some guy following us around the supermarket.

Well we managed to get most of the way around the store and were waiting at the checkouts when sure enough freaky hangook is at the counter next to us. Sure enough I hear him prattling in Korean to his friends:

"Oh those foreigners are really rich, look at all the food they have."

Next thing I know I have a hand on my waist, which causes me to jump 50 feet and the freaky hangook is in like a shot going through my grocery shopping and commenting on our purchases. My friend who is with me gets out her deepest adjuma voice and tells the guy to back the hell out of here.

So what are you supermarket stalker stories?

[Gopher]

Only one from the Brazilian northeast, where the local police are the stalkers.

My friend Ernesto told me about the time when his wife felt she was being followed by a uniformed police officer in a local supermarket. Every turn she made, he made. He was practically next to her every time she stopped, too. Finally she turned to ask him what was wrong, and she noted the mirror he had on his shoe. He had been looking up her mini-skirt the whole time.

She got angry and confronted him. He ran away.

But Ernesto was a little concerned. The local police were problematic, no doubt about it. I was detained at Carnival, for example, accused of an absurd thing, and then he finally got to the point I was expecting: the officer asked me if I was carrying any cash, and if so, I should consider letting him "hold it" for me because there were many pick-pockets out and about. Fine, I said, I'm only carrying about $25 reis, but I'd be glad to enjoy his protection. Money passed. Free again.

They also "disappeared" the local maloqueros, the "unloved," the local street boys who were so far gone they were like animals. Frankly, I don't know what there is to do about them, but taking them to the lagoon is just not right.

In all of this context, Ernesto was concerned that his wife would confront a police officer there like that, considering that he might have "arrested" her and done who knows what...

Korea is bad, and Koreans are stupid xenophobes who not only stare at you, but they move their head to continue staring at you as you walk by them, but at least you don't have to worry about your safety so much as in other parts of the world.

As for me, all things considered, Brazil was still better than this miserable place.

[neandergirl]

Not really stalking but I have had people in the checkout line take things out of my basket to look at them, comment on the price or check where stuff was made ("Korea good - China bad").

One picked up an avacado, sniffed it, made a face, then dropped it back in my basket.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[Derrek]

Remember that thread a few weeks back about a naked tabang girl dropping to the ground in the street, opening her legs, and yelling something like, "DO ME NOW" really loud?

Perhaps you should consider this option. It might shame him into running away.

[JongnoGuru]

[uberscheisse]

[peppermint]

I don't see much of that kind of thing anymore but couple of years ago in a small town, a woman put her head right down into my cart to investigate what I was buying. I'm not sure why it didn't occur to her to pick stuff up instead.

[indiercj]

[neandergirl]

Ummmm... no where in my post did I say it was offensive; nor did I use language that implied it. I simply described what happened.

[JongnoGuru]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[pegpig]

I love shopping at our local supermarket. Where else can you go grocery shopping while listening to ACDC ?

[ulsanchris]

Some what related to this but have any of you looked around a sex shop in korea. The odd time I've been in one the guy would follow me around closer than my shadow. Talk about annoying. They always looks so ���� too. (hope I spelled that right). Needless to say that that behaviour encouraged me not to buy anything from the store.

[djsmnc]

You people have some weird shit happen to you here