British woman is asked about the marks on her arms. Then the stranger’s questions take an uncomfortable turn: ‘get on a car’
A conversation with a stranger can start with a simple question. But when the questions become more personal, the conversation can quickly feel uncomfortable.
Asking someone about their job may seem normal. But unwanted attention from a stranger can feel different once the interaction becomes more personal, especially when it comes from someone they do not know.
TikTok creator Ami Alex (@amiialexx) says this happened when a man approached her and began asking questions. He first asked about marks on her arms, but the conversation soon moved to more personal topics.
That’s when things started to feel a little strange
In the interaction, the man first appears to ask Ami about her arms. She quickly explains there is nothing unusual about the marks. “It’s just eczema,” she tells him. The conversation then moves to her work. When the man asks whether she works, Ami explains that music is her full-time job.
“You work as well?” he asks. “Yeah, this is my full-time job,” Ami responds. After some confusion between the two, she clarifies, “No, no, I just do this, my full-time job. I’m a full-time musician.” The man then brings up Blackburn. “You going Blackburn?” he asks before adding, “I know Blackburn, I lived there.” “Oh yeah, nice,” Ami responds.
But the conversation does not stay focused on her work. The man begins asking about her social life, including whether she goes out with her friends. “You don’t go out with your mates?” he asks. “Do I go out with my mates?” Ami responds before saying that she sometimes does. He also asks about drinking. “I bet you drink, aye?” he says, to which Ami answers, “Yeah, sometimes.”
Eventually, the conversation comes to an end, with the man telling Ami, “I’ll see you later love.” Ami replies, “Yeah, see you later.” But that was not the last time she would see him. Ami later shared a second video showing that the encounter did not end there. In the follow-up, the man approaches her again and continues talking, this time asking even more questions about her personal life.
“I think you were married,” he tells her. “Um, no,” Ami responds. He then turns to where she went to school, asking, “Which school you went to?” This time, Ami does not answer. “I don’t really share that info,” she tells him. “Like where I went to school.” The man continues speaking about school before the conversation comes to an end.
Viewers largely focused on how personal the questions had become. “He is being a weirdo,” one commenter wrote. Another viewer questioned why a stranger would want such private information, while one person wrote, “When they start asking ‘do you live on your own?’ ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ ‘Do you have kids?’ ‘Why not?’ Shut the efffffff up!”
Others questioned why Ami continued engaging with him. “Why are you even talking/engaging with him?” one commenter asked. The question of how to respond when a stranger keeps making someone uncomfortable has come up in other encounters as well. Another commenter suggested Ami “Stop the conversation straight away with, ‘excuse me, why are you asking me this/telling me this?’ ‘Can you leave me alone please, thanks.’”
The videos do not establish why the man was asking the questions or what his intentions were. But by the second encounter, Ami had apparently heard enough. When he wanted to know where she went to school, she made it clear that was information she was not willing to give him.
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