fellow kellys help me out.
okay so i work at a newspaper in a small town, so i usually feel pretty safe.
but this morning, i was walking up to the entrance of this coffee shop to meet with a couple i was going to interview.
there was a man outside smoking a cigarette, looked like he was in his late 40's.
he stopped me before i walked in and said, "i don't mean to be nosy, but are you local?" i told him no and that i lived in the next county over but that i worked there. he asked me where i worked, i said the newspaper. he asked me how old i was, i said 22, not thinking anything of this. then he told me about how he was depressed because his wife left him. i told him i was sorry and i hoped things started picking up for him, but that i had to interview some people.
i genuinely felt for him, but did feel like he had kind of a creepy vibe about him.
i told my parents and my friend about the encounter i had this morning and they said that he could be a stalker or a serial killer or a rapist.
now i'm all paranoid. i have to work tomorrow, and no one is going to be at the newspaper office. i keep running scenarios in my head where i walk out and as i'm locking the door to the building the guy grabs me and takes me somewhere to kill me. my mom gave me some pepper spray to make me feel better, but i'm so scared right now.

what can i do? i feel so helpless. being a young girl sucks. or is there just something about kellys that makes us way too trusting and then way too paranoid?