Throughout human history, there has always been human trafficking in many forms. It is one of humanity’s worst truths. In the modern day, there are many different types, and each is just as horrific as the next.
Everyone is Aware of this happening, and many have the mindset that it will never happen to them. People need to be more aware of their surroundings because you never know if something bad is going to happen.
One woman who goes by @madisongelgand has taken to TikTok to remind women to be aware and listen to their gut because she was almost taken from a Store parking lot after doing some grocery shopping.
That day, she was inside the store getting diapers for her son and a couple of items to make dinner.
She intended to make a fast trip of shopping, but as soon as she walked right into the store, she immediately had a terrible feeling.
“So, first off, always listen to your gut,” she explained. “If your gut or you’re just feeling like something is telling you that something is off, listen to yourself. Ok? And be aware of your surroundings. It is not the time anymore to be nice to people….that’s just how it is.”
“If someone comes up to you and you feel like there is something off, then you do not owe that person a conversation, money, a smile, nothing, you get in your car, and you go. Stop being nice to these people and making yourself an easy target. I’m not trying to be harsh, but it’s the truth because this…is so serious.”
I wholeheartedly agree. Your gut reaction to a scenario, trust it. Our instincts are why our species has survived as long as it has. When you feel off, make sure that you are safe, getting back to your home and family should be your first priority. I have personally been in spaces that have made me feel unsafe, and my first thought is to make sure that I get home safe.
She goes on to share how she went back to her grocery shopping, but she kept aware of her surroundings and the feeling she had in her gut. Apparently, there were these 2 guys that seemed to be following her around the store.
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She would go to a new aisle, and there they would be. When she looked at something on the shelf and then decided to put it back, they would go and look at the exact same thing and never get anything. They were getting very close to her without adding anything to the cart they had.
She also noticed that they were silently communicating between themselves, kind of like checking her out and then conferring with each other that she was the one they wanted.
She goes to the self-checkout near where the security monitor was, and she can see them follow her to the self-checkout, and they’re not buying anything, they are just staring at her. She finishes with her groceries and looks to see if they’re still watching her, and they are no longer in the store, as far as she can tell.
Her first thought is that they are going to be waiting for her outside, which is what I would be thinking after 2 men were following me in the store.
She did a very smart thing, and she waited until a larger amount of people were leaving the store and made her way out to her car. Safety in numbers. She also made sure to look around and possibly have a manager or staff escort her to her car until she felt safe.
It just gets scarier in the next to videos she posted.
She ended up making it to her car without seeing the men again. Despite that, she put her groceries into the trunk of her car as quickly as she could manage.
She still was thinking that if those guys were floating around the parking lot somewhere, she didn’t want to be moving slowly.
But as she picked up the soda cans she purchased to put them in her car, she saw one of the two men.
“I turn around, and the man that was in the store following me is out of nowhere, standing at the end of my trunk, leaning against the side of my car,” she continued.
“He came out of nowhere, and his friend was not with him…So he looks at me, and he’s like, ‘Hey beautiful, I saw you in the store, and I just wanted to come up and say hi,’ I already knew.”
Now, I understand that some men are forward like this, walking up to a woman in public and asking her out, but normally those men won’t follow a woman through a store with a friend first.
And this woman seems like a really tough person, and I knew before I even finished watching her videos that she wasn’t going to be meek or quiet about the situation.
The guy goes on to keep asking her questions about her, like whether she’s single or if she has kids while looking into her car at the toddler car seat in the back. As he is asking all these weird personal questions, he is slowly getting closer and closer to her. Like, this is setting off alarms in her head, and she is standing her ground.
“Deep down, as scared as I am, I know I need to act like the toughest…because if I show any kind of weakness or vulnerability to these men, they’re going to think I’m the easiest target and that I won’t fight back,” she added.
“This man does not care, he is getting so close to me, like if he’s going to try this, I’m not going out without a fight. I’m not just going to give up easily. And when I’m talking back to him, telling him to get…away from me, I’m not quiet about it, I’m screaming it. I am making it known to everyone in this parking lot what is going on.”
“He keeps looking at the van, he keeps looking at me. So I get in his face, and I say, I’m giving you 3 seconds…you’re going to wish you never came up to me. I said you don’t think I know what you’re doing.”
And she continues to go on about how she knows exactly what he’s doing, apparently, someone who had witnessed what was happening went back into the store and got the manager.
He walks over to them, asking if there’s a problem, and then the creep starts to slowly back away, and then he bolts, all the while, she screamed that he’s a trafficker.
The manager made sure she was okay before she left for home, all the while telling her that she is absolutely right to trust her gut about those guys because there had been reports about traffickers in the area.
Madison, the woman that experienced this, was still worried because she lived close to the store, and she was worried that these guys would see her in her car and follow her to her house where her son and brother were.
Interestingly enough, they were at the same stop light, but they didn’t seem to notice her, and she was one of the lucky women, all because she trusted her gut, paid attention to her surroundings, and she made sure to make as much noise as possible so other’s around her knew what was happening.
She did every possible thing she could to make sure she was safe, given the circumstances. And her main message throughout all of her videos was to make yourself aware of what is happening around you.
@madisongelgand ? original sound – madison gelgand
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