Asked to touch my nose for 20$???

Yeah this is a story I think about daily, after it happened to me about 6 months ago I was in the back of a Marshall’s looking for bedding looping through the isles. I see someone continue to pass me in isles around the store. I recognized this but didn’t think much about these interactions since this person was disabled and a vulnerable person. ( his disability was visible as in impacting the cranial facial area (potentially Treacher Collins syndrome??)). Not that this matters to me as a person at all but makes the situation more difficult morally for me. Anyways I’m shopping and see him walking slowly towards me, he waves at me ; I wave back and give a smile. He walks away. I continue to shop then he comes back to me, and said excuse me, while giving me his phone opened to the notes page. Written is, “Can I touch your nose for 20$”. After reading this i was very much taken aback. I just said no thank you, while he looked disappointed and said oh okay.? After that interaction he walked away, I immediately went to my car locked the doors and got out of the parking lot. As a woman in the US, I am constantly on edge. However in this situation, it wasn’t some gross perv, but rather a vulnerable person. I feel guilty about thinking this was something sinister, but can’t shake an uneasy feeling from this situation. Because of his disability it was difficult to tell how old this person was but why would he want to touch my nose? Is this a kink thing? Some sort of scheme? A misunderstanding? How would he want to touch my nose? Why does he feel the need to pay me for this? Why me? (Average straight nose) Idk I’ll probably think about this forever and never find an answer submitted by /u/snowyandboo [link] [comments]

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