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 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.