I am not going to sit here and give a blow by blow account of how I would have reacted because that would be foolish. The 2 things I know for sure are:
1) I was too hard on the clerk.
2) I still don't like how close the kid is to the line of fire.
Well, none of us really know how we would have handled it and you were honest in admitting that.
With a little luck, and Murphy being out of town screwing things up for somebody else, we likely won't have to. But, it's the unlikely events that scare me.