AuntieBellum
Expert
Or more accurately -
"THAT WOMAN HAS A WEAPON!!!"
Yep, he screamed it.
In the middle of a store.
And I was the woman in question.
Awesome.
Okay, so the story...
I took the day off from work to finish my Christmas shopping. Yes, I was carrying. CC. Pretty standard for heading out to shop. Anyway, I went to Tractor Supply, a gas station, and small strip mall clothing store with no incident. Well, not no incident. I'm pretty sure there were two guys trying to pull a fast one on the cashier at the clothing store, but she seemed to be handling it well (credit card declined, called Visa...yadda, yadda).
I stopped at the dairy on the way home for lunch and to pick up another Christmas present (the Fair Oaks Dairy - their grilled cheese sandwiches ROCK!), and then I continued to my local farm store. I was sorting through the sweatshirts trying to find the right size. The shirts/coats were on a rack two high in the middle of a wide aisle. As I was reaching up to sort through a few more shirts, it happened.
It was a guy. He really did scream it. I froze. And then I waited. There was a loud whisper from the woman he was with - something like, "Shush, you don't yell stuff like that."
And then nothing. No one seemed concerned. The employees kept working at the register like nothing happened. So I kept shopping. And nothing more happened the entire time I was there. I obviously kept a close eye on the guy the rest of the time he was in there. In retrospect, he was likely autistic or had some other disability.
I was a little shaken after that - I've certainly never been called out like that. And I wonder why the employees weren't more interested. My guess is that he's a regular and screams random things from time to time. Or maybe the employees had already noticed and deemed me as a non-threat. Less likely. At any rate,
for my little town and nobody really freaking out (except me totally freaking out on the inside!).
"THAT WOMAN HAS A WEAPON!!!"
Yep, he screamed it.
In the middle of a store.
And I was the woman in question.
Awesome.
Okay, so the story...
I took the day off from work to finish my Christmas shopping. Yes, I was carrying. CC. Pretty standard for heading out to shop. Anyway, I went to Tractor Supply, a gas station, and small strip mall clothing store with no incident. Well, not no incident. I'm pretty sure there were two guys trying to pull a fast one on the cashier at the clothing store, but she seemed to be handling it well (credit card declined, called Visa...yadda, yadda).
I stopped at the dairy on the way home for lunch and to pick up another Christmas present (the Fair Oaks Dairy - their grilled cheese sandwiches ROCK!), and then I continued to my local farm store. I was sorting through the sweatshirts trying to find the right size. The shirts/coats were on a rack two high in the middle of a wide aisle. As I was reaching up to sort through a few more shirts, it happened.
It was a guy. He really did scream it. I froze. And then I waited. There was a loud whisper from the woman he was with - something like, "Shush, you don't yell stuff like that."
And then nothing. No one seemed concerned. The employees kept working at the register like nothing happened. So I kept shopping. And nothing more happened the entire time I was there. I obviously kept a close eye on the guy the rest of the time he was in there. In retrospect, he was likely autistic or had some other disability.
I was a little shaken after that - I've certainly never been called out like that. And I wonder why the employees weren't more interested. My guess is that he's a regular and screams random things from time to time. Or maybe the employees had already noticed and deemed me as a non-threat. Less likely. At any rate,
for my little town and nobody really freaking out (except me totally freaking out on the inside!).
Might as well slip this in 
I've even OC'd in your store, melensdad. Still not scary, huh?
He's a tad bit uncomfortable with my hobbies and doesn't know how to appropriately channel his humor...really need to get him to the range sometime to fix that.
