I had an odd experience with a professor. Weird thing is I never even took his class before. He would just show up at my workplace and start talking to me, acting like I was the nicest person he ever met. I don’t even think I ever had him as a customer before. He just randomly started interacting with me.
On one of these days, he told me he was professor at the university and started talking about what he teaches, researches, etc. I thought maybe he recognized me from campus, which might be why he kept talking to me. Anyway, I told him I was a student, and then he started telling me how “attractive” and “magnetic” I was. His english was bad, so I didn’t want to assume he was flirting. He also told me to look him up online to see if I was “interested.” I wasn’t sure what he meant, but all I saw online was stuff about his work, so I guessed he wanted me to take his class or look at a research opportunity. He asked if I wanted to meet up with him to talk, but he left before saying when or where.
After that, I sent him an email telling him I’d be interested, but he never replied. Instead, he showed up to my workplace again later that week to tell me it was “not appropriate” to communicate through the university email. He told me to give him my phone number, and even though I was suspicious, I did. I really didn’t want to assume it was something creepy, and I was also still convinced he was trying to talk to me about a research opportunity or something. But then he said his plan was to have coffee together during his office hours to make him ”feel calm” and started yapping about how ”nice“ and ”relaxing” it is to talk to me.
So that me anxious, but I was still trying to convince myself that there was actually something school related this dude wanted to tell me about. We ended up texting once a week for a few weeks, each time just to plan to meet during his office hours (which he only has once a week). Each week though, it would end up getting cancelled. The first time was because of me. This made him come to my workplace again just to complain about how disappointed he was I didn’t show up.
The next couple of weeks he cancelled. Unexpectedly, he texted asking me to meet up during fall break. I asked him why it would be necessary to meet off campus. I also asked him if we were just gonna talk about research. No replies since.
Just wanted to share my experience. Does he seem creepy or am I just overthinking it?