Have you ever gotten a bad feeling about someone?

[snipsnsnails]

You know the kind I mean? Like right off the bat, minute you meet them, they make your neck hairs kinda stand and say, 'Yowza.'?

Just curious if you continued to see them in passing if the feeling ever changed, lessened or went away.

[flex]

It doesn't happen to me much, but DH used to talk about certain people would make the hair up on his neck. He was a salesperson and he could read people fairly well.

[FormerlyRR]

It's happened a few times, and mostly it doesn't change. One got better, then went back to WTF after a couple of years.

[noradog]

I've only had a few hair on the neck stands up encounters, but I've had more just generally creepy incidents. Most often they don't change, and usually I'm proven right. Even more often are the people I can peg as just not trustworthy. I'm generally pretty good at reading people.

[Champagne Supernova]

Yes, very recently and he commented on my outfit. 

[ErinExpat]

Yes, but like PP said, it was with people with whom I never again had contact.

[Deleted]

Yes, I've met people that I immediately thought were "off" and my gut told me so.  It never changed.  

[Deleted]

Yep. 9 months later one of my students told me he'd been harassing her the whole semester. I got him fired (contractor) but still wish I'd been able to spare her that.

[Deleted]

Yep. It was a preacher at a church I used to belong to. I didn't like him at all and he creeped me out to the point that when I was making a website for the church I would only meet him at the public library. A few years later, some stuff went on at the church and he wrote my grandmother a really nasty letter. 3/4 of the church left and then looked at me and said "Wow, he was an asshole. We should have listened to you from the get go." I was in HS when all this went on.

[cuddlyevil]

Yes and no.

[intentionalsnarkshark]

Yup. And when I feel the yowza gut feeling it doesn't lessen over time.

[Elsa]

Yes. It has happened a few times with students, one if which was today. The last one I got the feeling about was arrested on campus drunk and high.

I've also had the feeling about other people- not students- and have usually turned out to be right about them. Not always something major like drug use, but cheating, etc.

[Pibs]

Yep. There's a patient that I refuse to see because he creeps me out so much. I tried, but the gut feeling never improved and he just made me too uncomfortable. He's been inappropriate to my other female co-workers, too, but not as bad so they'll actually see him if our male colleague isn't available.  It's kind of unfortunate, because he's also a huge flake and I'd totally be on board with being the person who gets an extra 15 minutes to catch up when he doesn't show for 85% of his appointments but when I tried that he actually showed up.  *shudders*

[eb777888]

Yessss!!


And no.

[scottyderp]

Yeah, I have a little bit of the shining.

[adhdfashion]

Yes and the feeling never goes away. I get a quick read on people. I stay away from the weirdos.

[elleblue]

A few times. Most notable is the guy who was just sentenced to death (met him before he murdered two people).

[fryjack2]

Feb 8, 2016 22:37:30 GMT -5 elleblue said:

A few times. Most notable is the guy who was just sentenced to death (met him before he murdered two people).

What? What's this story?

[Gato]

Yes. Then I avoid those people (to be honest, in all cases, I'm talking about men).

[fryjack2]

A few times.

Once the guy was a total douchebag sleazy jerk and j knew it from the first interaction.

Another was just creepy shady.

I've tried to stay away from people who give me that weird sense of something being off.

[steph96]

Yes! One time my H invited his coworker and his GF over. The GF gave me that feeling. She kept wanting to play with my dogs and I was so uneasy. I told my husband that I never wanted to see her again. A few months later, my H's coworker and the GF broke up.  She ended up being a psychopath and committing an act of animal cruelty on the cat they adopted together.  I still have nightmares about what she did.

[atarianna]

Yes. I was in HS and had a teacher who I mistrusted from the second I met him. He did weird things during class, once kicking off one of my clogs it landing under his desk and just leaving it there. Not sexual at all, just really off. He asked me to stay after class a few times and I always had a friend stay too. I told my parents I was uncomfortable but they blew me off saying I was being dramatic. I even asked the guidance counselor to help me switch teachers but she said unless I was willing to do a formal complaint, no one would help me.

Nothing ever happenedto me, thankfully. But 3 years later he was fired for raping a student. My gut was right in being mistrusting but I really wish now I would have filed the formal complaint, though I am not sure on what grounds. Maybe that other student would have been spared.

[steph96]

I actually can't think of a single person that has given me that feeling that hasn't turned out to be a bad person. It's crazy how intuition can work sometimes.

[elleblue]

Feb 8, 2016 22:39:39 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

Feb 8, 2016 22:37:30 GMT -5 elleblue said:

A few times. Most notable is the guy who was just sentenced to death (met him before he murdered two people).

What? What's this story?

It's really really sad and senseless. link

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[scribellesam]

Yes. It was an old client's foster parent (I used to be a SPED attorney for foster kids). He made me so uncomfortable and was just icky. When I checked in with the social worker a few months after my work was completed, she told me he'd been arrested for possession of child pornography.

Generally, my creep radar is over sensitive but this time was right on the money.

[cville]

Yes. He was, many years later, discovered to have a collection of child pornography. I knew him for years and hated him on sight, from the time I was about ten. Hated.

[cleo29]

Yes. A priest at my elementary school. He treated the girls terribly and was just creepy. Turns out he was molesting one of my male friends and attempted it with some of the other boys. I don't remember if he went to prison, I know he was sent to a seminary type place to "think about what he had done".

Can you feel my rage?!

[Deleted]

Feb 8, 2016 22:09:50 GMT -5 Elsa said:

Yes. It has happened a few times with students, one if which was today. The last one I got the feeling about was arrested on campus drunk and high.

I've also had the feeling about other people- not students- and have usually turned out to be right about them. Not always something major like drug use, but cheating, etc.

On one hand, pedophiles. On the other, students getting high. I definitely feel like everyone in this post is on the same page.

[nicbreeful]

Yes and no, they don't usually go away.

[krystee]

Yes. Ted Cruz is the current one.