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Complacency and inattention isn't good
Big Sky Redneck
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Yesterday, I was in OK City at a nearly empty truckstop and parked in the middle of the lot with nobody around me. Sitting there with the engine running, A/C on high and my drivers window down about 2/3 of the way. Having a smoke which is why the window was down, I don't like "hotboxing" my vehicles and making them look like a scene from a Cheech & Chong movie. I was sitting there stressing about my boy knowing that today when he got to Nebraska I was taking him to the bus station putting an end to our agreement and his employment with me. So needless to say I was "spaced out", staring out the window with my mind elsewhere and pretty much oblivious to my suroundings, bad deal.
So I'm sitting there and something happened that I swore could never happen to me, nobody is sneaking up on me no way no how. Well this damn tweaker did the impossible, snuck right up to me and I never saw him coming.
Out of the corner of my eye I see someone getting on the truck steps, startled me and I snapped out of my daze pronto. He gets up to about eye level and starts talking and his hand came in the window about 12" from my face and he was holding something. My reaction, I just sat there for a couple seconds untill I realized what happened. He was bumming money for drugs and wanted to sell me whatever it was he had in his hand that he put in my face. If it had been a knife or a gun he had me dead.
All I could do was yell at him to get off the truck, tons of profanity and sharp orders to get off my effin truck right effin now!!! I never made a defensive move, I know he should have been eating pavement but for some reason I never made a move, all I did was yell at him.
He got down and left, mumbling something that I couldn't make out, didn't matter anyhow. I was mad, not just at him but at myself, I let a damn tweaker blind side me and get his hand in my face without ever reacting. I could have been dead if that was his intention and yes, thinking about it after it happened it scared me. Not so much him but myself for allowing that to happen.
I should have cleaned his damn clock and taught him a lesson about climbing on trucks and reaching in them. Hell I need to teach myself a lesson for allowing it to happen. Damn, I need to grt my head screwed back on straight because if there is a next time it might be for real. [V]
So I'm sitting there and something happened that I swore could never happen to me, nobody is sneaking up on me no way no how. Well this damn tweaker did the impossible, snuck right up to me and I never saw him coming.
Out of the corner of my eye I see someone getting on the truck steps, startled me and I snapped out of my daze pronto. He gets up to about eye level and starts talking and his hand came in the window about 12" from my face and he was holding something. My reaction, I just sat there for a couple seconds untill I realized what happened. He was bumming money for drugs and wanted to sell me whatever it was he had in his hand that he put in my face. If it had been a knife or a gun he had me dead.
All I could do was yell at him to get off the truck, tons of profanity and sharp orders to get off my effin truck right effin now!!! I never made a defensive move, I know he should have been eating pavement but for some reason I never made a move, all I did was yell at him.
He got down and left, mumbling something that I couldn't make out, didn't matter anyhow. I was mad, not just at him but at myself, I let a damn tweaker blind side me and get his hand in my face without ever reacting. I could have been dead if that was his intention and yes, thinking about it after it happened it scared me. Not so much him but myself for allowing that to happen.
I should have cleaned his damn clock and taught him a lesson about climbing on trucks and reaching in them. Hell I need to teach myself a lesson for allowing it to happen. Damn, I need to grt my head screwed back on straight because if there is a next time it might be for real. [V]
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also i hate to see it didn't work out with your kid and the company your building.
hang in there bud [;)][;)]
know the feeling...got blindsided by trespassers hunting ...trailing a turkey thru my trees and sneaked along listening when about 20'past a tree the lock up hit wheeled around an pointed a hot to go pistol at the base of the tree..could not see anything but this voice comes out and say "i don't like you pointing that at me" i answered back " your hands better show out empty or i will empty this in you NOW" he did just that .first time i had seen(not seen) rag camo..invisible s--t..we talked a while and i explained he was trespassing and he and i both went our way...found out weeks later there was #2 somewhere close by who never moved and i never saw..took a week to get over that...#2 could have had my *
Those Gilly suits are pretty effective,specially if U use a little of the surrounding foliage for extra break-up..
Hey Lonnie. Are you sure you were not looking for a "lot lizard"? You can be open with us.[:D]
For $20 he'll make you holla....what happens at the truck stop...becomes legend on the internet forum. [:p][;)]
And yes... IMO... We ALL need to take stock of our situations.
Complacency and inattentive behavior can get you on the wrong side of the grass... DAMN QUICK!
The Mayberrys of yesteryear are gone forever.
There was a day that my wife and I could walk hand in hand down main street.
NOT Today! Not even in the rural areas...
HELL, I don't even go outside my home unarmed anymore.
And it's a damn shame too. To always be on your guard.
ALWAYS aware of what's happening just beyond arm's reach.
ALWAYS...
And in the last 40 to 50 years, this has all come to pass.
What the hell is the next 40 to 50 years going to hold for society!???
I shudder to think.
Lonnie... Trust in God (if you're a God Fearing Man),
but keep your head down and your powder dry my friend!
that's a good thing, meth heads have nothing to lose, you do