I almost got assaulted a couple hours ago, and my nerves are still shot. I'd just walked my friend to the bus stop after church and was returning there to find my ride, when I noticed a man sitting in the middle of the road (it's a back road, in the semi-seedy part of town, practically a dark alley). Growing up in Vancouver one gets used to the junkies and homeless prowling about at night, and you're generally safe even if you're on your own as long as you keep a respectful distance and don't stare.
Anyway, this guy was sitting in the middle of the road I needed to take to get back to the church, and there was no way around him without getting close. As I approached him I could hear him muttering and counting down my steps, and when I was about to pass him he got to one, shot to his feet and took a couple of steps toward me. I, being already nervous about him, took a step back instinctively, but he didn't come any closer, and I managed to sidestep him and keep walking as he ranted at me. I heard him take a few steps as I walked away and got ready to run, but fortunately a couple of friends drove up at that moment and pulled over to chat, so we chatted, and the man just stayed right where he was at the end of the road, still muttering to himself.
As we finished our conversation and I turned to keep going he came right up to the car and started yelling at me and into the window at my friends, threatening to actually attack the car, but we managed to talk him down and he walked off, ranting the entire time about how he wouldn't let us leave and standing in the middle of the street again, preventing the car from passing. So they turned around as I was trying to get back inside the church, and since I couldn't find my key they got me to go with them for dinner.
That's not the end of it, either. After dinner my ride and I had to head back to the church again to get to his car. Fortunately the man had left by then, but I was freaking out and checking the shadows while we were there.
Fortunately I'm safely at home, now. My heart's still pounding, I'm convinced that if things had gone a little different I could have actually been attacked. Sorry for the long post, but since this is the Terrified thread and I was more scared then I have been in a really long time, well, yeah.