“Dear PoPville,
I had an interaction with the guy aggressively approaching women for coffee. I was walking to meet friends for dinner on 14th a little before 7pm and had just hung up the phone with my bf when someone stopped me to ask where they could find pizza. This was 15/Corcoran.
I asked what kind of pizza they wanted and they said new york style, to which I snarkily said good luck you won’t find that here. (I lived in nyc for 15 years before moving here.) He told me I “looked like a pizza connoisseur”. So I told him dollar pizza equivalent is on Florida and 18th, to which he remarked he had just come from there and didn’t want to walk back. At this point I was about to walk away and he told me he had just moved here from nyc, so I told him I had lived there too before moving to nyc. At this point I hadn’t put two and two together of who he was and just thought he was making small talk to find a good place for pizza.
He then said we should hang out and asked if I wanted to grab a coffee with him, as he just moved to Thomas Circle-area and he said his name. It was then that I recalled the various stories of a guy asking people to coffee and being predatory. So I said I wasn’t interested and he was like let me get your number, so I said no again, that I was late for dinner, and he still kept asking for my number, so I said I had a bf, to which he replied he did too, and then I was like, that’s awesome but I am not interested and walked away.
Just wanted to put an alert out that he’s still out there.”