It was around ten PM, I think. Dark outside, laughter from friends drinking beers. I was working, a little brown pub near my school. I looked behind me, a hand mid-level reaching for me from behind. Without thinking I grabbed the arm before it touched my ass and placed it on the man’s chest to keep him at arm’s reach. He didn’t say anything just looked at me wide eyes that made me think he was using something. We stood there me yelling at him to leave, but still only wide eyes focussed on me. It wasn’t seconds, just too long. My friends were not laughing anymore, nor did they do something else. A bouncer saw it happening and came over; the tall broad man took the wide-eyed man away and five minutes later I was serving drinks again. The man went on his way; I even saw him walking by an hour later when I was alone at that little brown pub. His day won’t change, he won’t feel scared next time his back is faced towards the street, he won’t have to decide if it’s safe working alone because of his gender. And no one knows, it’s not big enough to get attention it’s just another sentence in the list that every girl has, the list that makes them feel unsafe, scared and alone. And there is so much more on every woman’s list.