It had always been easy for her. Men were so one-minded. They were so simple. This was not some great hidden secret either. All her girlfriends knew it. Some openly talked about it. Men were animals. All a girl had to do was flash her sexuality in front of some poor male.
Take this current one. She did enjoy their times together. After all, he was romantic and flirtatious. When she dangled the golden prize just out of his reach, he responded. He did not even care that she dated others. Men were such animals.
Then she got the email. She received it in the middle of the day at work. She remembered thinking how charming he was. Obviously, he was smitten. It started so sweetly.
"Flower..."
She was jolted. At first, she was scared. Then her anger washed all awareness of fear from her.
"How dare he? My GOD he was sick! He was worst than sick. The words he used were filthy and degrading. He should be locked up; caged like the beast he was."
She had obviously misread him. Now her nerves were alive in anger, in fear, in emotion. She emailed him back. Not the depraved email he commanded her to send. He was an asshole to prey on women like this. He was a vampire. He was no better than a rabid dog and she vehemently told him so. She forbade him from ever contacting her again. Feeling justified she sent it off. All she had to do was wait for the return receipt to indicate when he had read it.
The next day she received the message, "Email deleted without being read." Now she was enraged. Unable to help herself; not caring who was near, she called him. He did not answer. However, the loud, rambling, tirade of a message she left calmed her down enough to make it through the rest of the day.
Three days later, he still had not contacted her. He was an asshole. That was his problem. He was an asshole who was scared to talk to her. She drove by his house. She drove by not once, not twice, but several times, she found herself diverting to his neighborhood. HE WAS SUCH AN ASSHOLE.