A woman has sparked concern after sharing how she found herself on the receiving end of some seriously creepy behaviour at the airport. Kirsten, who is known as kir.a.lo on TikTok, was waiting for her connecting flight when a stranger, having spotted her phone number on her luggage tag, decided to send her an unsolicited message in a bid for a romantic connection.
The text read: “Hi Kristen, my name is Nate. I saw you and thought you were so beautiful so I had to find a way to talk to you. I saw your number on your luggage tag and decided to text you. I promise this isn’t as weird as it seems. Give a guy a chance?”
However, Kirsten was anything but charmed. She shared her distress online, pointing out not only the man’s error in spelling her name but also how invasive she found his actions.
She expressed her unease: “First of all, he spelt my name wrong. Second of all, if he wanted to talk to me so badly, why didn’t he come up and talk to me like a normal human being? This just feels like such an invasion of privacy.”
Her concern escalated further given that now the stranger might know where she lives: “I have no idea who this guy is. I didn’t notice a guy looking at me or anything and I’m also extra weirded out because I have my address on my luggage tag so he could potentially know where I live now.”
Kirsten concluded her story urging other travellers to secure their privacy by hiding personal details on luggage tags while at airports.
Users on the platform were astounded by her tale, with one exclaiming: “My jaw literally dropped. I’m horrified.”
Another piped up with a safety tip, suggesting: “Luggage tags with covers only.”
A third tried to offer a different perspective, remarking: “He might have been a bit shy and was nervous about directly talking to you. He probably isn’t a threat at all, but one never knows.”
A different user confessed the cautionary story had never occurred to them, saying: “This is something that would never even cross my mind! That’s so scary.”
One commenter shared their unnerving encounter, detailing how: “Had the guy who checked me in and scanned my ticket at the gate email me asking me out before the flight took off because I was polite, smiled and said thank you. He said he felt a genuine connection.”
This spurred another user to reveal their safeguarding strategy: “My luggage tags only have phone numbers. If they want my address they can call!”