The world is actually more dangerous than your insignificant little brain thinks it is. So, STFU, watch the news and look at some statistics. The world isn't disneyland.

Yes. We should all go through life worrying about the one in ten million risk the "creepy" (read: eww! He's ugly! OH MY GOD THAT MEANS HE'S A MURDERER! UGLY PEOPLE ARE EVIL!!) guy at Wal-Mart poses.

i would only speed off if no one else was in the parking lot.. but i totally understand what you're saying about the world definitely being dangerous. The day after Christmas a guy was stabbed to death in one of the apartments my stepdad owns. And a guy got stabbed right outside my house, practically on my porch, and the chick that stabbed him got shot and killed like, 5 months later. So yeah, the world is pretty dangerous.. stuff like that kinda gives people a reason to be paranoid

Well, my assumption was that you and the OP live in a first-world postindustrial country, like the US, Canada, or someplace in Europe. Where your chances of being murdered are being astronomical. There was a news story the other day about a meteorite blasting through someone's roof and coming near to killing them. Do you worry about that too? Does that make you unsafe? Just because something happens to a couple thousand of the SIX BILLION PEOPLE in the world doesn't mean it is LIKELY to happen to YOU. And the people who did get murdered usually a) slept with someone's wife b) stole someone's drugs or c) shot at some soldiers. You have about the same chance of getting hit by a falling meteorite as being murdered by a perfect srtanger. Yes, I would open my door for a stranger (which she wouldn't even have had to do, just crack the window open -- and if he had a gun, he could shoot her through the closed window anyway), and I have before. It's not a big deal. Grow up and stop cowering over your own shadow.

I wouldn't say that's a completely fair assessment. The US has plenty of crime (I can't speak for the other countries you mentioned, since I don't live there), and if you'd paid attention to the media lately you would realize that OP's reaction, while exaggerated, was not completely unfounded. I will be the first to admit that the media blows things out of proportion, but that does not mean that the cases they report didn't actually occur. It's an unfortunate fact that with the way the world is today, people, particularly young women (although OP doesn't specify her age) have to take the "better safe than sorry" road. In the past few years there have been several cases of kidnapping/rape/murder taking place in parking lots, and I'm sure the women in those cases also thought they were safe. It's also a gross oversimplification to say that "the people who did get murdered usually a) slept with someone's wife b) stole someone's drugs or c) shot at some soldiers." That is absolute BS. Plenty of people are kidnapped, raped, and murdered in the US for no reason at all. Finally, while the OP overreacted, as you pointed out he could have shot her through a closed window. I suppose something like that was probably going through her head when she tried to pull away quickly.

Because he was ugly, and that's automatically creepy and evil. If Brad Pitt had been walking toward her car, she would have wet herself trying to get out of the car and run up to him as fast as she could.

Are you seriously that stupid? You should be institutionalised for thinking that there are no severly paranoid people that aren't locked up.