Lost Parent or Predator scouting a school zone? Analyzing the red flags of a suspicious car near my school
I don’t know if I was overthinking or if my gut was right. It was the last day of high school exams the most important day for our future here (in our system or cluture, (and i don't care much about it) and I’d spent the whole night awake studying, so I was already on edge
My day started weird, On the public bus an old man sat next to me (bus was crowded so it's normal to sit beside me not targeted) he was barely breathing in the beginning and the first thing I caught was a micro smile when he got on the bus and saw me then halfway through the ride, he was doing something scratching his genitals left and right multiple times it was uncomfortable, so I got to my destination and left tho he wasn’t the main encounter
The real thing happened after the exam i was feeling confident but also really mad because the test was unusually hard as I crossed the road, a man in a Land Cruiser shouted to get my attention and gestured for me to come over
Because my hearing and eyesight aren't great i’m always cautious.
What made my alarms go off immediately was his car ,it was parked on thh other side of the school, and the tires were angled to leave like he was ready to bolt and there was no other cars infornt of his he was on front or first car i couldn’t hear if the engine was on but the positioning just felt wrong
I approached him but I made sure to stand by the driver’s window where it was exposed to the public and other moving cars he was in his mid 40s or 50s wearing traditional clothes and glasses that hid his eyes
I asked him why he called me over he asked how the exam was and I said it was hard when I explained why after he said why, he just went quiet like his mind was somewhere else i had to keep talking to fill the silence while I was talking i realized he was staring directly at my mouth and nose area when he realized i noticed he immediately wiped his mouth and nose with his hand and made a weird burst of breath/sound
I started trying to "audit" him because i was getting suspicious
I asked "Do you have a son here?"
He said yeah and pointed at the school
Then he immediately added
"So, what did you have today, chemistry or physics?"
I said physics it felt so weird it’s the final day of the most important exams if he really had a son there he should have known the subject
He didn’t mirror me or look me in the eyes like a normal person would at the end of conversation he kepy looking at the school while I was standing there so i closed the conversation and left,
I took two buses and spent some time elsewhere because i saw a old friend,
Is this guy just a confused parent, or was he "scouting"? Has anyone else dealt with this kind of "glitch" in a conversation? Or just a normal person?