Creeper Alert in the Workplace!!!

Do you have the creepy person in your office?

In my plant there’s this one mid-50’s woman who really gives me the willies. Yesterday, I was running some cable near the employees entrance and this woman, I’ll call her Yolanda, must have walked past me at least a dozen times. EVERY time she passed, she had to stop and talk to me, and most of the time she speaks to me, she seems to have the need to actually touch me. Now, I have some pretty critical personal space needs and physical contact is a Level 10 Red Zone violation of that. The worst was when I was crouched down punching down the jacks and she crouched down next to me and rubbed my back saying that it looked like I was really working hard.

Excuse me while I lay in the fetal position sucking my thumb for a few minutes.

I’m back, thank you for your patience. Anyway, this happens all the time. She’ll call my office to tell me she needs to stop by for something, then tell me that she needs her PW reset or something equally mundane. She’ll stop me in the hall to tell me that someone else that she spoke with will be calling me. She will always come to my office when her issue could be handled remotely or over the phone. And it’s not just me, I know that there are others here, men and women, that she drives crazy with her visits and her touching. Worst of all, she smokes and smells like Pittsburgh in the 60’s

Now I’m not looking for suggestions on what to do about this. It’s too late for me. I’m just curious if this type of person is found everywhere. Is this type of behavior more common in the US? Do you have one, male or female, where you work? How do you handle it and do you have any funny stories about it?