Sometimes I really wonder what the world is coming to.
I went down to our local ( well, not so local, more like in the next town) supermarket to buy some veggies for dinner.
As I was leaving, a car raced into the parking lot, tires screaming.
He barely missed one car and had to brake hard in order to avoid hitting me.
Since we were face to face, I rolled my window down and said in my calmest voice ( I have a fractured wrist that is not nearly in shape for me to punch an idiot out with that hand, so I can do calm with the best of them):
I think you mis read your map, this parking lot is not actually part of the Le Mans circuit.
18 whatever year old super skinny kid jumps out ( We are talking 90-100 pds and not any of it muscles) and wants to kill me.
As in screaming and waving his skinny little arms around and telling grandpa that he is about to die for having insulted his honor.
This shit I would expect from one of our wonderfull , culturally enriching, Arab immigrants, but this kid was clearly born and raised here.
WTF??????????????????????????
Normally I would just have provoked the shit out of him , let him take a shot and wiped him out. Plenty of witnesses.
But I'm in a situation where I can't afford a fight, so I slipped my friendly brass rod that lives in my drivers side door into my pocket.
I figured if push came to shove I'd break his wrist ( I know how much that sucks.)
Luckily the hunter that has the ( well, not really lease, because we just have a friendly agreement and I hate deer) right to hunt on my land pulled in next to us.
He is absolutely huge.
He got out and asked what the problem was.
I told him the whole saga, and he said: " That little skinny kid was going to beat you up?"
We just ended up laughing so hard that the kid got into his car and left.
Then after I finished shopping and was walking to my truck, I saw a movement and turned.
friggin' kid was trying to run me down.
I jumped a concrete barrier to safety and he took off for the horizon.
I'm starting to think that I may be too old to cope with the world any more.
Where the frig is the honor in backing out of a fight then trying to run the opponent down????????????
There is much good to be said about concealed carry.