On October 18th, 2024, at 1 pm, I was sitting on the corner of a field in the Upper West Side with my dog. A woman sat across from me and suddenly asked, ‘Why are you sitting like that? Do you need to use the restroom?’ I have no idea why someone would ask a complete stranger that, so I fully ignored her. She asked two more times, and I still didn’t respond or even look at her. My dog was laying down all that time after a lot of zoomies. Then, she came up to me and started talking to my dog, saying, ‘Yeah, she’s lazy,’ referring to the fact that I was sitting on the grass. I asked her to leave us alone, and she eventually turned back to her side. I had no idea she would come back, but she did—and this time, she grabbed her coffee, which I hadn’t noticed before, and spilled it on me.

I did file a police report, and they classified it as harassment, but they won’t investigate further since I don’t have her details (she isn’t my neighbor or anything).