TIFU I walked my dog at night in the park.

I know it’s dumb, I wasn’t thinking she needed to go. I’ve never posted on reddit and I wasn’t going to, but here goes. TIFU I 32M took my 12F dog to the park close to the house. It’s where we always go I didn’t think much of it. We got through most the walk, and then it dawned on me how dangerous the situation I was in. I had the thought holy shit imagine what it would be like as woman in this situation. It would be terrifying, and then I realized I was in that situation. As if the Universe was listening a strange man of average build could be fucking anyone came across the grass. Hood up in the dark matched pace with me like 50 feet behind me. I cut across to the empty parking lot, but at least it had lights, instead of going into the lights he goes to the playground and gets on the swings and starts swinging along! In the dark my first thought is tonight is when I get murdered. My second thought is I don’t have much to live for anyway. Third thought was oh shit he’s the distraction guy. Like being weird and creepy on purpose make sure I’m watching them and then get kidnapped or something. So I started looking around but I really don’t want to take my eyes off this hooded figure in the dark on a swing hard to look away from. I was on the road at this point and futher away, my last thought was this kid is gonna put that prank on tiktok with how weird that behavior was. He was walking a completely different way and then cut the corner to follow us at the beginning so I know it was intentional. I didn’t love the idea that he knows where I’m staying at. You can see the house from that playground. I stood watching him for awhile he just kept swinging. My instinct to get inside as quick as possible won eventually and I decided it was better to get in. We left through the back so we had to go around. I was just gonna chock it up to weird night whatever. Getting ready to chill for the night and suffer from insomnia until maybe sleeping. And a fucking flash came through the window. Now…I know there were storms earlier that day. That was over hours ago it wasn’t raining. Right ruled that out, car headlights don’t work either its the kitchen window away from the street. Yup had to be a picture. Who would have the flash on it would just reflect on the window, and alert me to it. The MF forgot his flash was on or wanted me to know. TL;DR I took my dog to the park at night like an idiot. Got stalked by a man in the dark. Learned what women go through all the time. I won’t be doing it again.