Idiot Sightings

[WindChime]

I work for Wal-Mart. I have been there for about 15 long years now. I work in the jewelry department. We are right in front of the store. I have about 6 customers a month come up to the counter and look me straight in the face and ask me "Mame where is your jewelry department located in this store?" After I get the shocked look off my face I tell them to look down. Then I get the famous line "if it was a snake it would of bit me now wouldn't it" and in the back of my head I'm wishing one would.

[DonaCatalina]

Ok This one I have to share.
My daughter went with some co-workers to a class in basic self-defense for women.

Question: What do you do if a stranger comes to your door unexpectedly dressed like a repairman.
Female #1: Ask him for a phone number so you can call and see if he's legit?

Daughter: Oh yeah. Call his buddy Bob or whoever and find out what a legit guy he is. Hellooooo.
Ever thought of looking up the company and phone number on the internet?

[midnightferret]

Ok This one I have to share.
My daughter went with some co-workers to a class in basic self-defense for women.

Question: What do you do if a stranger comes to your door unexpectedly dressed like a repairman.
Female #1: Ask him for a phone number so you can call and see if he's legit?

Daughter: Oh yeah. Call his buddy Bob or whoever and find out what a legit guy he is. Hellooooo.
Ever thought of looking up the company and phone number on the internet?

I was in a similar situation once, and gave the answer, "Think to myself, 'Er, gee, did I call a repairman? NO?!' Then I don't open the door." A girl in the class said "But what if your husband or landlord called the repairman? Then you'll have to wait for another one!"

. . .  The teacher of the class had to explain to her that not only is it unlikely that your husband or your landlord would call a repairman without telling you, but that missing a repairman and having to call again or wait for another one isn't really the worst outcome of this situation. *sigh*

[Breandan]

Granted, we're both former soldiers and security contractors, but my 5' tall teeny wife (oh, my ribs and kidneys would pay if she ever saw that) answers the door with her sidearm behind it most of the time. Of course, this makes for an interesting shuffle when the Fed Ex guy hands her the clipboard to sign for the package and she has to tuck her XD40 under her left arm to sign it, and the expressions on the delivery guys' faces are priceless.

Speaking of, I remember attending the NRA convention in Houston a few years back representing my firm when I walked into the Springfield booth. A senior sergeant of a major local department that shall remain nameless was looking at the XD9- a semiautomatic pistol with no hammer- and asked if it was single action or double action. Now, for a non-gun-person, this wouldn't stand out as a stupid question, but for a veteran law enforcement officer- a sergeant at that- it is a whole different story, especially on a pistol blatantly without a hammer. It frightened me.

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Granted, we're both former soldiers and security contractors, but my 5' tall teeny wife (oh, my ribs and kidneys would pay if she ever saw that) answers the door with her sidearm behind it most of the time. Of course, this makes for an interesting shuffle when the Fed Ex guy hands her the clipboard to sign for the package and she has to tuck her XD40 under her left arm to sign it, and the expressions on the delivery guys' faces are priceless.

Speaking of, I remember attending the NRA convention in Houston a few years back representing my firm when I walked into the Springfield booth. A senior sergeant of a major local department that shall remain nameless was looking at the XD9- a semiautomatic pistol with no hammer- and asked if it was single action or double action. Now, for a non-gun-person, this wouldn't stand out as a stupid question, but for a veteran law enforcement officer- a sergeant at that- it is a whole different story, especially on a pistol blatantly without a hammer. It frightened me.

Your wife answers the door like i do.  The cable guy asked me if that was a shotgun i was holding... i had to ask him if he'd like a closer look.

[Elennare]

I've occasionally answered the door that way too...only I use a sword. 

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

I've occasionally answered the door that way too...only I use a sword. 

Where do you guys live where you have to answer the door with guns and swords? I could say in Colorado it all depends on what neighborhood and city you live in. And I will say the mojority of places you do not have to answer a door like that even in Denver or Colorado Springs

[LadyShadow]

I used to answer doors with swords, knives, guns or whatever I could get ahold of.  But that was when I lived in a bad neighborhood.

[DonaCatalina]

I've occasionally answered the door that way too...only I use a sword. 

Where do you guys live where you have to answer the door with guns and swords? I could say in Colorado it all depends on what neighborhood and city you live in. And I will say the mojority of places you do not have to answer a door like that even in Denver or Colorado Springs

It doesn't matter which neighborhood you live in if you are a woman home alone. No disresepect intended to anyone;
but there are very few women who have the hand to hand combat training to fight off someone who forces their way into your home. Even if their original intent was robbery, an unarmed female alone in the house is sometimes to easy of a target to pass up. riminals intent on home invasion usually chooses nice middle class neighborhoods where people tend to be trusting
and may not have alarms. I don't live in a bad neighborhood, but about 6 years ago there was a woman raped and beaten two blocks away. She was home alone and didn't realize that the storm door could be kicked in so easily.
I keep a .357 loaded with .125 jhp for when his excellency is out of town.
I don't even use the same route to get to and from work.

But the best way to be safe is to not answer the door to ANYONE that you're not expecting and always be aware of your surroundings.
Always check your car before you get in. Lock the door of the house even if you're out in the garage.
Never leave the garage door open unless you are in the garage and it is daylight.

-off my soapbox now-

[Tipsy Gypsy]

Yup. The easiest way to become a victim is to believe "It could never happen to me".

[Lady Christina de Pond]

normally i don't answer the door if i'm not expecting anyone if i am then i'm armed even if they don't know it

[WindChime]

With my back so flared up with pain I can't even walk down the stairs sometimes to see who is there. I yell out the upstairs window and tell themm to step back so I can see who they are and what they want.  If I don't know them I show them I have a phone and tell them they got until 3 till I hit the call button for the cops.

[Breandan]

It doesn't matter which neighborhood you live in if you are a woman home alone. No disresepect intended to anyone;
but there are very few women who have the hand to hand combat training to fight off someone who forces their way into your home.

Oh, my wife has the training- Aikido and Krav Maga- she's just lazy 

[Sir William Marcus]

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

I've occasionally answered the door that way too...only I use a sword. 

Where do you guys live where you have to answer the door with guns and swords? I could say in Colorado it all depends on what neighborhood and city you live in. And I will say the mojority of places you do not have to answer a door like that even in Denver or Colorado Springs

I may live outside Houston, kinda in the country, but i had some illegal obama supporter try to kick my door in when i wasn't there.  Lucky he stopped when he did for there was a 160lbs Great Dane and a 90lbs Rott on the other side.  I watched another guy, a door to door "salesman" try to open my neighbor's door and then try the same thing at my house, while his buddy started to push my motorcycle away.  I "convinced'' him not too... well, myself and a lock & loaded AK-47.  All i could say, as they ran down the driveway, was "Merry Christmas, Mother F#@%ers!"... they found all my Xmas lights the hard way.

I'm former Spec Forces and I've always lived a touch on the paranoid side... i have a Katana next to my bed, a .45 in the nightstand a 12 gauge inside the bedroom door and other "toys" scattered around the house.