Would like advice on a potential stalker problem...

I am being totally serious here…

Recently I’ve started trying to lose weight and therefore have started to go for walks with my son ( who is 2 and half) about 8am just round the back country roads near my house. (I live in a small town of about 40,000 people, very near the countryside!).

One morning a car pulled up and it was chap i used to know from a distance when I was drinking in the pubs years ago, He’s probably in his late fifties, early sixties, He was always very quiet and drank with his wife and used to say a courteous hello when he saw me but nothing more.

Anyway, he pulled up in his car and started talking to me, asking me how I was, asking about the “littlun” (my boy)..“he’s growing up isn’t he!” type of thing…

The next time he pulled up was a few days later and I asked him if he was off to work and he said that he was retired now…so no…We exchange the general pleasantries and he went on his way. Anyway… that was that. I’ve seen him a couple of other times too once where has pulled up and talked to me and another where he was on a main road so just drove past and beeped his horn.

ANYWAY: this morning, I was walking back form dropping my son off at nursery and he pulled up next to me even though I was on the other side of the road, didn’t say anything, just handed me a yellow boiled sweet…and then drove off….

Now don’t you think that’s a BIT weird??? That’s like five time now that he’s “bumped” into me and then to hand me a sweet??? Whether it was intended for me or my son…I’m not sure but either way… hmmmm

Or am I just being silly and over-protective and paranoid. He just gives me the creeps… It’s not like he used to be friendly… (incidentally I had a boyfriend back then who I used to drink with…) I don’t know… Over to you…

sorry it’s so long! thanks for reading if you managed to get through it all!