Worker Says a Customer Lied About Wafers to Get Her Attention — Then Waited Near the Doors With Two Other Men

A 20-year-old supermarket worker says a customer’s strange question in the aisle seemed harmless at first, but by the time he and two other men were hanging around near the entrance, she felt uneasy enough to ask her boss to walk her to her car.

She explained in a Reddit post that she was working in a supermarket when a male customer, also apparently in his 20s, came up to her in an aisle and asked if the store had more flavors of wafers in the back. The display he was looking at, he claimed, only had vanilla.

It was a weird question, but she works in customer service. Weird questions happen. So she checked the back like she would for any other customer.

There were no extra wafers.

When she came back and told him, the conversation shifted fast. Instead of simply moving on, he asked for her number. She told him she was not looking for anything right now.

He pushed anyway.

He complimented her eyes and asked again in a different way. She still said no. Then he asked for her Instagram.

At that point, she gave it to him because she wanted him to leave her alone. Her plan was to block him after work. It was not that she wanted him to contact her. She was trying to get out of an uncomfortable conversation while she was trapped in the role of employee, expected to stay polite to a customer.

Afterward, a few details started bothering her.

First, she realized he could not have actually seen her eyes the way he claimed. When he walked into the aisle, she had been kneeling on the floor, so the compliment felt less genuine and more like something he threw out to pressure her.

Second, she later checked the wafer display herself. It had multiple flavors on it, not just vanilla.

That made the original question feel less like a real shopping request and more like an excuse to approach her.

She tried to go back to work, but she kept noticing him near the entrance. Every time she walked past the front doors, he was still there with two other guys, laughing and hanging around. A few minutes later, they were near the door again. Ten minutes after that, she walked by to check and saw the same customer pacing in front of the main doors.

Her workplace was inside a shopping center, so he was not technically standing in her exact store aisle anymore. But he was still close enough to the exit that she noticed him over and over.

That was when the situation stopped feeling like an awkward customer interaction and started feeling like something she needed to tell someone about.

She mentioned it to a coworker first, saying she was getting bad vibes. The coworker told someone else, and soon several coworkers were encouraging her to tell her boss.

When she did, she started crying.

She said something similar had happened to her before, which likely made the fear hit harder. Her boss took it seriously, thanked her for telling him, and walked her to her car.

Her coworkers also reassured her that she had done the right thing. They said they would get security footage of the man and keep an eye out in case he came back.

Still, the worker felt guilty. She worried she had made a big deal out of nothing and wasted everyone’s time. From the outside, someone might reduce it to “a customer asked her out.” But from her point of view, that was not the whole story.

He used a strange product question to start the conversation. He pushed after she said no. He asked for another way to contact her. Then he stayed near the doors with two other men while she was still on shift.

By the time she asked for help, she was not trying to create drama. She was trying to leave work safely without walking past a man who had already made her uncomfortable and was still hanging around the exit.

The post was archived and locked, so there was no later update about whether the man came back. But in a comment, she said he had not messaged her on Instagram because her account was private and she blocked him before accepting any follow request.

What commenters said

Commenters overwhelmingly told her she was not overreacting. Many said she did exactly what she should have done: trusted the bad feeling, told coworkers, and let her boss help her get to her car safely.

Several people focused on the wafer question. They said it sounded like a made-up excuse to get her talking, especially since the display apparently did have more than one flavor and he later pivoted quickly into asking for her number.

Others said the bigger concern was what happened after she turned him down. Hanging around near the entrance with two other men made the situation feel more intimidating, especially because she still had to leave work through that area.

A lot of commenters reassured her that asking for an escort was not wasting anyone’s time. Some managers and former supervisors chimed in to say they would always rather walk an employee to their car than have that employee feel unsafe alone.

Several people also warned her not to give out social media handles just to make someone go away. They understood why she did it, especially as a young woman at work trying to stay polite, but they said even a private account can reveal more than someone realizes.

The strongest advice was simple: don’t talk yourself out of a warning sign just because nothing “officially” happened yet. She felt unsafe, her coworkers believed her, and her boss took it seriously. That was enough.