I was going to pick up a parcel and a random woman crossed the street towards me and said I called her over. I told her I didn't and she started arguing that I did, so I just crossed the street myself and went into the building.
I stayed there a while and she was still fucking standing there when I left, so I took a different route out of the area.
And I know someone would say it - yes, I'd love to have hit her for trying, but self defence usually doesn't work when claimed against the "better halves". Fleeing is the only option.
I'm not going to go insane, I just thought it was odd what happened.
Not to sound like a deliberate Kafka trap, but crazy people aren't exactly usually the first to notice it about themselves.
She may indeed have been running a scam or been batshit crazy and aiming to fuck with you, but the way you describe it sounds a little bit unstable. Like jumping straight to "I wanted to punch her, but I knew I couldn't have got away with it" isn't something you should be saying for someone who was acting weird but with no clear ill intent. That sounds like those women who openly fantasize about stabbing a dude because he stood to close to her, and that means he probably wanted to rape her.
I mean, if someone's waiting for you outside of a building after all that weirdness, you wouldn't at all want to just hit them for your own safety, before they pull a knife or worse?
You wouldn't feel a little like you're about to be attacked?
That specific weirdness, not quite, I'd keep my distance and be watching them if my gut said they're shady but would need something more directly threatening before I felt justified pre-emptively defending myself like that, regardless of legal standing.
It might be different if it's someone I had history or a grudge with, but not a stranger.