Orlagh Winters: A Scary Encounter With Abusive, Drunken Men

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Orlagh New 1SO last weekend I was walking to my car after work at about 10.45pm and I encountered two guys who were clearly drunk, so I walked off the path and on to the road as they were blocking my way.

As I walked by, they were joined by a third guy who came out of a takeaway. This guy shouted at me asking me if I fancied a s**g?

I didn’t respond and just kept walking, fast. There were a few gross insults roared after me and I ended up running to my car.

Once I got in, I realised I was quite shaken but I was also kind of annoyed with myself for not telling this piece of trash what I really thought of him.  I drove the eight minutes it takes me to get home almost admonishing myself for not having acted.

The following morning, I was thinking more clearly and I came to the conclusion that in actual fact I did right by not challenging him.

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I decided that had I stopped and got involved in a discussion with the three of them that I could possibly have made matters worse and it being quiet on a Sunday night I could have left myself open to more obscenities being thrown at me, or indeed worse.

I know many will say that I was foolish walking alone at night and perhaps you are right, however I do think that it is a shame that anyone be it male or female should encounter fear from a plonker who clearly can’t handle his drink.

I know that we live in a world where there will always be plonkers who think that it is perfectly acceptable to shout obscenities at women but you know what, in the world I live in, it will never be acceptable.

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Maybe there are some guys who only do this when they are tanked up and that when they are sober they are the nicest guys in the world.

I would like to think that I could always look after myself and thankfully up to now I have done a fairly decent job but this definitely shook me.

I have travelled around the world and visited some of the most dangerous cities and I have never felt afraid. Sure, I might be over re-acting and being a bit of a drama queen but I did experience real fear.

It wasn’t nice and it has certainly taught me a lesson, not to walk on my own at night. If by chance the guy reads TraleeToday and is reading this, I hope you are aware that you will probably never get that desired s**g by shouting at a girl on the street at night.

Until next week,

Stay safe

Orlagh x

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