A weird thing happened to me tonight [View all]

I was at the grocery store tonight and a guy said to me: "Do you want to make more money than you do in your current job? I live on Cedar. I can help you market your assets."

"My assets," I asked incredulously.

He then said, "Well, if you're a seamstress or something."

I shook my head and then replied, "I make beaded jewelry." He said "the natives do that." No, he wasn't interested in my jewelry.

I turned to walk away. I didn't say much because I wasn't even sure what had happened. I'm not exactly young anymore. My "assets" are middle-aged. I stopped by my aunt and cousin's place on the way home and told them the story and asked if he had proposed what I thought he had. They said yeah. He wouldn't have been anymore interested in seamstress skills than beading. He was offering to pimp me out.

I feel kind of weird, like maybe I should have told him off. I thought about saying something to the store manager so they would try to make sure he wouldn't bother other women in the store, but what he said was ambiguous enough that he could easily have denied it. I don't think anyone has propositioned me for paid sex since I was 14. I didn't know what to do.