That is, that she's "working" the dating site?
I'm not saying that's the case, but it does happen.
As to awkward situations.... oh hell yes. Many times. I've also had run-ins with people from my personal life in the biz. Those were mainly when I worked with agencies, and didn't know someone's real name prior to meeting.
That alone is a BIG reason I now require real, full names.
So let's see; some of my greatest hits (more like misses lol).....
Many years ago, when my kids were little, we were out to eat when a guy who was walking past suddenly did a double-take, came to a dead stop, and loudly said "DEBBIE?!?"" with his mouth hanging open. I refused to acknowledge him, but from the corner of my eye I saw he turned really red and walked out. Idiot.
During a long hiatus from the business, I was on various dating and swinger sites. People I'd either met or simply recognized me from my old ads would send me crude/insulting messages asking me "how much" or even threatening to "out" me as an escort to the site if I wouldn't hook up them. Instead, I got them kicked off the site lol.
Once (again while I was out of the business for several years) I was actually at a swingers club when a guy approached me while I was with a group of people. "Debbie? What are you doing here?" I played it off as a case of mistaken identity but later on, he cornered me when I was alone.
"Debbie, I know it's you. We met 3 times!" I replied that was a while ago, please don't use that name here. He didn't get it. "So you're WORKING tonight? How do we do that?"
NO, I'm here just like everyone else. But of course he was still suspicious because, you know, once a provider always a provider. LMAO.
Then his WIFE CAME OVER, telling me it's their first time at this type of club, they had just decided to get into the lifestyle; now they both wanted me to play! Oh no.... I mumbled something and slipped away.
Unfortunately, it didn't end there. Towards the end of the night he caught me coming out of a play-room, and grabbed my arm to pull me aside. I held my ground and simply asked him very quietly, "Does your wife know that you and I have already met?"
Hated to have to do that, but it worked.
The absolute worst: this was a client I'd only met a couple of times. Long story short, more than a year after I'd last seen him it just so happened that I'd moved and we were now living in the same town. And our children attended the same school.
I didn't even see him, but the day after a school play, he started sending me very alarming emails. HE was playing the victim!!! Accusing me of stalking him, telling me how wrong I was to be there, he was going to out me for doing this, etc etc etc. I was able to get him on the phone and eventually calm him down, explaining the situation, but then he demanded that I not attend any more school functions. Called me unprofessional to have allowed this to happen in the first place and that he shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable this way in the future.
Naturally, I wouldn't agree to that so the conversation ended badly. The next day I found out he actually called the school's principal in an attempt to anonymously "out" me! What he didn't know was that I had a very good relationship with most of the school (and school district's) administrative staff so he wasn't believed for a second.
The principal and her office staff were actually more alarmed that I apparently had a stalker and wanted to know who he was so they could assist me in reporting him! Yeah, thanks but..... LOL.
I noticed him a couple of times after that, at parent-teacher nights and so forth, always staring at me. Sigh. A long time later he emailed me to apologize. Called it a knee-jerk reaction.
Uh-huh. Well, he got the "jerk" part right. LOL.
No amount of screening can weed out the guys who will behave unpredictably when bumping into one another in civvie life.
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NOONER: (noun) A sexual encounter during lunch hour, especially one that is illicit