John Cordero demonstrates what not to do when approaching someone: walking up from behind, touching without permission, blocking their exit, and using a threatening tone. He breaks down each problematic behavior to show why it's invasive and disrespectful, then promises to show the right way.
All right, so in this example, I'm going to show you because there's times where you're not always going to be crossing, but you want— there's a right way to do it and the wrong way to do it. I'm going to show you the wrong way. Okay, so, uh, hey, I was just wondering, like, I, I thought you were really pretty. Like, can I get your number?
Thank you, I'm okay.
You see that everything I did there was awful, was so cringy. Yeah, yeah.
And again, no notice on that, so I didn't know he was What are you gonna do? That— don't— whatever you just did, whichever way I went was the wrong way.
Exactly. I did that on purpose. I, I purposely was trying to look very creepy. I was trying to look really, really creepy. But I, I— there's a lot of wrong things that I'm about to point out. One, I touched her from behind. This is the worst. One, I— coming from behind and talking to her is creepy. Touching her from behind is even more creepy, okay? And she doesn't know you. She doesn't even know who you are. She literally has nothing. You could be threatening her, all these different things. You just never know. So when I did that and Also, I got in front of her and I blocked her exit path. Also horrible, horrible. And she was like going this way, I was going this way. She went that way, I was going that way. Like textbook creepy shit, alright? So don't do that. You want to do it the way I'm about to show you right now, alright? Alright.