>>392754hi nona, this is
>>392749. Not trying to nitpick, but I'll go through the points you listed and point out any warning signs/things I'd want any friend of mine to watch out for.
>the back section of his shop wasn't fully enclosed and not more than 15ft from the entrance to his shopDid the shop have any customers? Is the inside of the shop and the inside of the back area of the shop visible from the street? Were there people on the street? How small is the back area?
>i watched him make the tea and ate an orange after he tried to offer me snacks from the shop.It's good that you watched him prepare the food. As a rule I'm just wary of strange men offering it in general, and because of things like picrel.
>he asked my age and i guess men of that generation see nothing wrong with that kind of age gap, i think if i had said younger he would've been respectful.1. So he was being disrespectful
2. Please don't try to read his mind or excuse his actions for him. This is a strange outside party you don't know anything about. Anything goes, especially when he's a strange older and bigger man and it's late at night and alone.
>he invited me to his apartment nearby, not to stay in the shopHorrifying. He's trying to get you to an unknown location in an area you're already not familiar with (how do you even confirm it's "nearby" until you get there? what's stopping him from lying to you and saying 'just a little bit longer, we're almost there' until he finds a good alleyway? what's preventing him from limiting the number of strange men around you to just himself?)
>he never tried to text me again after the single text he sent the next day. he shook my hand that i offered when i left, he never tried to initiate physical contact.thank god for small mercies
>he was weird in the sense that he didn't realise how strange it was to be offering me work and a place to sleep the night. i think yes he was speedrunning marriage with me in his head a little bit because he kept saying he never met a woman like me in this country (tbf the city he is in has less demure female demographicPost too long. Click here to view the full text.