I'm 43F and I'm a school bus driver. I've been friends with a 60-ishM driver for years and we've always had the kind of casual joking friendship that never crossed lines but was a little crass at times. We both have kind of twisted senses of humor but it's always remained within a certain boundary and it never made me uncomfortable.

Until last year when my husband and I were on the rocks and I confided in my coworker that I thought my marriage was over. My coworker lost his wife to cancer a few years ago and it's been no secret that he's been lonely for companionship since then but I was beyond shocked when he straight up propositioned me one day shortly after I told him about my marriage troubles.

My husband and I went to marriage counseling and worked through our difficulties and things are going really well now, but my coworker has been really persistent in going out of his way to talk to me every day, and it's gotten to the point now where I'm uncomfortable with the amount of times that he's made strange offers and comments towards me. It's multiple times a day every day, to the point where I'm looking for different places to park or to enter the office so I can avoid these awkward conversations with him when I used to enjoy talking to him.

I have a little 5 minute layover and there's really only one place I can park my bus so I pull over in the same spot every day, send my husband a few texts and just spend a few minutes not being on my bus but my coworker pulls up behind me almost every day to talk to me. Some days I really just want my 5 minute break to be left alone!

Yesterday, I was having a really tough morning and I just needed my 5 minutes, and of course he pulled up behind me so I waved to him and walked to the other end of my bus and sat on the curb. After a minute he drove away quickly. He avoided eye contact with me later when we passed each other in the office so I feel a little guilty that I hurt his feelings but I'm also really tired of being constantly hounded by this guy. I wish we could just go back to our normal friendship without feeling like he's pursuing me and wondering if he's trying to get in my pants or if he's going to invite me to Bali again.

AITA for avoiding talking to him like that instead of just telling him I was having a bad day and wanted to be alone?