Prey

Feeling like this is an awful feeling.

I wonder if single people feel more like prey than non-single people.

Had a patient today who asked me how I was doing (while we were waiting for the elevator)
"I'm alright, how are you doing" I said with a smile.
"alright?! thats not good! thats as good as saying awful!" He says as we enter the elevator
"well, no actually, alright means between awful and really great, so I'm somewhere in the middle, so I'm 50 / 50" I explain jokingly.
Once we are in the elevator he puts his arm on my shoulder, goes closer to me (he is in my face!) and says "well, tell me..." in a lower voice, "what is the other 50 % that is not so good?" Then his hand travells down to my shoulder blade and his two fingers start rubbing my back up and down just by my shoulder blade with somewhat pressure, as if he is massaging me.

I feel like lifting my arm to throw his arm back, block it as I use my other hand to punch him in the face. But I dont do this. Its hard to know when patients are being friendly or just damn perverted! He is 79 yrs old!!! I am in the corner of the elevator near the buttons so I cant back away.
"well the 50% that is not so good is that I'd rather be outside than working" I say louder.
After a while, he takes his hand away and says " Oh well we are all like that then, that is like everyone else"
"OKay! then! " I say immediately and louder "Then I'm perfectly great!" I exclaim in an attitude that says 'Okay I am fine and I dont need your 'comforting' so back off- with a smile though'
He backs off into his side of the elevator then says "Okay then thats great hehehe"

I wonder if its just because I am a tiny gal that he treats me like that?! I'm sure if I were a tall man and his medical doctor he is not about to touch him and say that!

Or maybe old people have NO sense of PERSONAL SPACE???
Dont touch me old man!

Then as I am treating him the conversation goes from his farm house in the outskirts of T.O to "So when are you getting married?"
"Um, in two years I say" ha ha

Now, If I were married would he be treating me this way too?

Sometimes, in some cases I think its better to just wear a ring on my ring finger and tell people I am Happily Married to my BIG tall STrong Husband - just to weed out the creepy old men and weirdos. Sometimes being married makes you somewhat safe from all this....
I guess it must be a good deterent for some, and much better than drop kicking the old guy and telling him to back off!