I'm pretty certain I was nearly carjacked today, and the only reason the guy changed his mind is my car has a clutch. I was on a grocery run when I saw a dude in a hoodie and skimask walking down the sidewalk. He turned, started eyeing and walking toward me. It's cold, I didn't think anything of it until he turned towards me the way he did. He looked in my window, right as I shifted into first, getting ready to just launch it through the intersection. I could see him relax and he turned away, went behind the car and over to the sidewalk on the other side of the street.
If this was regular social media, the next dozen posts would be about why they're all CCW and just waiting for something like this to happen.
I haven't been carrying a gun very often. Usually only when to bigger cities, not the small city I was in today. I used to, when we first moved here and I didn't know the places, but I've relaxed a bit with knowledge of the area. I did have a good, sharp knife on my belt. I probably won't change anything, other than avoiding that route. It was not a normal route for me.
The amount of idiots out on the road there is astounding. And it's just what I'm seeing posted on Facebook and the like. They can't drive on a good day, much less in snow. And the next few days will get above freezing during the day, back below freezing at night. The next few days will be interesting.
I have a concealed carry license, but haven't carried a pistol in years. Mostly because I like to stop for a drink now and then and the two don't mix. God, I see those hero wanna-bes posting all the time. I can't help but think they frequently jerk off at the thought of finally getting to draw down on someone.
95% of the those people would sooner piss their pants and/or use a toddler as a human shield if the situation arose. Crisis training has to be drilled into you.
Nobody has snow or even all-season tires down there. As soon as it freezes, the treads stop gripping along with the added bitch of ice/snow on the road. It’s no wonder you see those bizarre pile-ups with the lightest snowfalls down south— They are not equipped even if they have the skill.
The overwhelming majority of gun owners don't feel that way, thankfully. But, there are some out there, and they do like to leave comments that may one day harm their defense in a court of law.
Yep. Later generation Corvettes/Camaros and the Dodge SRT/Hellcats have become next level easy to steal. Someone figured out how to program a blank key fob with a device plugged into the OBDII port. A few months ago I took the Corvette out and noticed a white Tahoe with blacked out windows and big, dumb rims a few cars behind me as I was pulling into the grocery store. I didn't notice it when I was leaving but it's in one of those huge strip mall parking lots and it's sort of hard to describe over text but there are two exits behind the grocery story and then a road running parallel a few blocks away. If you're headed North on the parallel road, you'd typically exit the left side of the parking lot and right side for south. I exit the left (North) side because of the southern parking lot speed bumps and then head south on the parallel road. As I'm turning south on the road, I see that same Tahoe booking it North towards me which means they exited the right side where most people would go south. It could be paranoia with all the thefts lately but it makes me wonder if they were scoping me, saw me leave thru the left exit, assume I'm headed north into the neighborhood complex, exit right side and haul ass around to try and catch me and see where I live. Could be happenstance.
I dropped the wife off at bingo night at the community center. We're getting just enough snow to probably make it interesting when I go pick her up. Hoping nobody slides into me.
The problem is the majority of those that do feel that way are also the most vocal on social media and to everyone around them.
Maybe I'm weird, but I've never been in a situation where I remotely wished I had a gun on me. And I say that as someone who has walked, alone, down Skid Row in dress clothes at 2 AM.
If they're too stupid to realize those types of comments might be used against them in a courtroom, that's on them. I didn't wish I had one today. I wished my doors were locked, they weren't, and I'm going to start locking them. My first instinct was flight, get the car moving. I was about to launch through a red light until I saw him change his mind.
Ice, ice baby. I think our second winter here, we had a period over a couple months that just kept dumping snow, melting a little in the sun during the day, and then freezing into ice sheets over and over. We don't have a ton of snow guaranteed each year. Winters usually aren't too severe here and can be quite mild. We are just now getting solid freezes. It has been quite a learning curve but I'm eager to learn how to drive and prepare for the snow and ice because it's life or death, ya know? And I don't want to lose a whole season each year to a near hibernation. I want to still do stuff. I've noticed for many of my southern family and friends, they simply scoff at the cold, praise Jesus that they never have to deal with it, and refuse to learn how to thrive in it. Then when it happens they are extra fucked. But to be fair, the usual clothes and tires are just not suited for icy snowy weather.
Speaking of carrying guns: https://web.archive.org/web/2025012...25/01/21/us/fire-chief-shot-deer-alabama.html Man hits deer with his car. Second man stops to help. They approach the residence of third man to ask for assistance. All three end up shot, one is dead.
People are fucking nuts. Near Houston last year, some guy opened fire on a person using their driveway to turn around.
“You pull up and three people are shot — it just don’t make sense any way you look at it,” he told the station. “We just really didn’t know what happened. It was just bizarre.” Just GA doing GA things.
I think less and less about carrying a gun, and more and more about wearing body armor. Protect my vital organs. People are nuts.