This dude on my right asked if his bus had passed yet. Turns out we were on the same bus (the university one) and headed to the same building cluster so I asked what he was doing up there. He was doing aerospace engineering and I'm doing physics so we got talking about science and that. He used to teach physics 10 years ago (I'm 18 and he was probably in his late 30s) and he showed me some pictures of this telescope they managed to get at his school and we spoke about astronomy and that.
On the bus he sat next to me even though upstairs was basically empty but I shrugged it off because he might not know how little people get on at that time of day. He talked loads about politics and **** but his English wasn't perfect (he was Iranian) so I couldn't keep up.
I'm damn sure he had aspergers or something similar because he was talking to me about how he has amazing photographic memory and never forgets faces but isn't great with day-to-day things and he was coming out with all these politics figures and making me guess them plus he was really fidgety and a little 'off' with talking to me but I tried to ignore it. He was also being weird and inconsistent with eye-contact plus was missing my body language when I tried to end the conversation.
When we were one stop away from my building he asked for my number to keep in touch (I was definitely not flirting in any way and he was waaaaaay too old). I pretended I didn't hear because I didn't want to give it to him but he passed me his phone anyway and his body language felt a bit weird so I put in my number with one wrong digit but he called it and I had to correct it. After he saved my number he googled my name (it's not English) even though I'd already told him it meant nothing and he mumbled something about not being free this weekend. His body language changed then and I started to feel really uncomfortable and kinda worried the only person upstairs with us then was a guy at the front with headphones. Nothing happened anyway and as we were getting off he said that if my course was ever doing a trip to an observatory or something I should tell him.
Idk what to do because the conversation started off normal and nothing more than strangers chatting to pass time but I'm really not happy about the fact he has my number just I didn't know how to refuse/I didn't want to because he was acting weird and I was slightly scared. The observatory thing at the end (he was fascinated by astronomy) makes it sound kinda harmless and just a lack of social skills thing but the 'not free this weekend' thing definitely isn't normal talk.
I really want to just block his number but I'm probably going to see him again sometime (same bus stop, same building block). He sent me this text the day after, in this exact format, but I've not replied anything yet:
Hey *myname*
It was nice to meet you yesterday. How is the course so far?
Regards,
*hisname*
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