A UK woman has been sharing words of gratitude on Twitter after two teenage boys, whom she didn’t know at the time, helped her out of a dicey situation that occurred during a public train ride.
Mary McLennan, 21, had just boarded a train alone at Manchester Piccadilly station in the north of England when a male passenger got a little too close for comfort.
Seeming friendly at first, the man then told McLennan he had noticed her walking through Manchester and thought she looked good. “At this point I was starting to think that he had followed me,” she recalled.
After McLennan revealed that she was a model, the man’s line of questioning turned personal. “[H]e asked if I’d do any webcam modeling for him,” the 21-year-old recalled.
As McLennan tried to appear absorbed in her phone, two teens boarded the train at Stockport and noticed the uncomfortable exchange. McLennan received an airdropped message to her phone, reading, “u good?”
“[I] made it clear that I was being picked up from the station by her so he wouldn’t follow me,” she explained. “After I received the airdrop off the boys, I knew they were nice and safe to go up to so I pretended I knew them.”
The teens played along, sitting with McLennan until she reached her destination.
“To everyone who thinks this post is fake,” he commented, “Hello, ’tis I, the one who airdropped the photo to her.
“First of all it was literally just me, Jacob, her, the inappropriate man, and some old dude in the carriage. Of course ‘Mary’s iphone’ is gonna be the right one to airdrop to.”
