Woman gets ‘creepiest’ text from guy who spotted her number on luggage

Published Oct 14, 2024  •  Last updated 7 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

Selfie of woman named Kirsten, who warned other travellers after receiving a text from a stranger who saw her phone number on luggage tag. Photo by kir.a.lo /Instagram

A woman has a warning for travellers after she received an alarming text message from a stranger at the airport.

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The traveller named Kirsten, who goes by kir.a.lo on TikTok, shared in a post about how unsettled she was after getting the creepy text.

“Y’all, I’m at the airport and the creepiest thing just happened to me,” she says as she appears to walk through the terminal.

“I’m sitting there on my layover and I get this text.”

Kirsten then shared a screenshot of the message and read it aloud.

“‘Hi Kristen,’ which, that’s not even my name,” she said. “‘My name is Nate. I saw you and thought you were so beautiful, so I had to find a way to talk to you. I saw your number on your luggage tag and decided to text you. I promise this isn’t as weird as it seems! Give a guy a chance?’”

Kirsten was incredulous.

“Like, what? First of all, he spelled my name wrong,” she noted in an unimpressed tone.

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“Second of all, if he wanted to talk to me so badly, why didn’t he come up and talk to me like a normal human being?”

She added: “This just feels like such an invasion of privacy. I have no idea who this guy is. I didn’t notice a guy looking at me or anything.”

Kirsten added that she was also “extra weirded out” over the other personal information she has on her luggage tag and “he could potentially know where I live now.”

She concluded with a warning: “PSA to everyone out there: Turn your luggage tag inside out so that your personal information isn’t visible,” she said. “And PSA to all creepers: do better.”

Most of Kirsten’s followers were “horrified” for the woman, calling the situation “so violating.”

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However, one user admitted that while it was “a little creepy,” he also questioned whether the move was “romantic,” to which Kirsten replied, “Oh absolutely not. He was blocked immediately.”

Others suggested she either only put her phone number or email address on her luggage tag, to which Kirsten admitted she immediately ordered new tags.

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