Can't Sleep......The Stalkers Will Get Me (09/14/05)

Just when I was starting to enjoy my job again, the crazy bastard has to resurface. I posted about this a few months ago and deleted it, so a short synopsis of the events thus far:

A customer at my job(fetish photographer by profession,suspected Neo Nazi by rumor) starts stopping by regularly. However, despite the fact that I strongly suspect he's a bigoted jackass, I can not throw him out until he starts harassing people and he's been polite as punch to everyone.
All of the employees are polite and will answer a direct question (in case we're wrong), but we're NOT trying to engage this guy in our usual friendly banter.

Neo asks me out on a date. I let him down gently when I decline( pointing to the "wedding ring" on my left hand), as we have all decided he's a few records short of a crate.


Neo starts hanging around, waiting for me to come on shift and/or leave for the day, full of apologies and babble about how we have a "connection", finally culminating in my having to physically throw him out after he starts begging/trying to kiss me, that it will make me see things his way.

He disappears for months after that and I thought he was gone for good.

I couldn't have been more wrong if I was the head of FEMA talking about superdome refugees.

Lil' Hitler has returned and thus far has confined his staring and stalking to the tail end of my day, where I can use the trainees as human shields while I dash for the back office. I'll only have the trainees for another week and if he ramps up his activities I'm alone for 3/4 of my shift.

In my 4 years of overnights I've dealt with freaks,addicts and alkies of every stripe, and this guy is the first time I sense genuine threat. His fantasy/reality divide seems to be severely skewed. He's passive/aggressive to extremes. He's the walking talking tabloid stereotype of BDSM(i.e. incapable of acting out his fantasies safely and with consent, with the lifestyle merely being a step toward actual violence, an idea which is bullshit personified, but not in this guy's case). The kind of asshole that makes the rest of us "safe sane and consensual" kinksters, queers and deviants look bad.

I've been going through my days hyper-alert, watching every car that pulls in. I carry the phone in my jacket pocket at all times in case I need to call the police. Absolute worst case scenario, I'm pretty sure I can injure him enough to buy me time until police arrive. He's only about 5'10" 190lbs, bigger than me, but not massively so.

Pray to your deities of choice he stays away kids. I don't like the looks of this.


Note: Regularly scheduled goofy shit will resume tomorrow. Same bat time, same bat channel.