Over the past 5 or 6 years I've cold-approached and talked to probably a thousand females during the daytime.

Not one of them has ever needed to take action or report me resulting from concern for their personal safety and well-being.

But you've crossed that line in a matter of weeks.

And even at that it was overdue, going by the consistent, freaked-out reactions you'd been getting up until the Sainsbury's thing.