Two incidents happened that are just scary as hell to me. I am trying to get the wife interested in concealed carry as a result, slowly she is coming around.
Target. Just like the young lady in Kansas, she picked up a man that was following her around the store. Getting too close for comfort and just acting strange....hard to qualify but acting strange. My wife, not wanting to be rude as any Southern woman is taught, just kept shopping. He kept up with her isle for isle. Even when she half ran across the store to get away from him (into the bra section no less) he was there in seconds. Finally, she whipped out the cell phone and called me....what am I supposed to do half way across the State?. When she did that, he took off....I mean literally TOOK off almost in a run. Soon after that, a security guard for the store approached and said he was watching the guy with the cameras and was on his way to intercept him when she called me. They couldnt' find him. So the security guard walked her to the car.
Kroger Saturday night. I usually go shopping after dark for good reasons. Saturday my wife and 4 year old daughter had to go, I couldn't. So she parks, checks the surroundings, gets out and gets my daughter out of her side of the car. As soon as they come around the side of the van, there stands two latino men at her back bumper nearest the passenger side tail light. It startled my wife because she knows the cars all around her were empty so they walked up there, stopped, and were waiting for her to get out. She swept way wide of the men (picking my daughter up and moving with her fast) and the men spoke in spanish for a few seconds and quickly followed her. She kept seeing them in the store but thought nothing of it, thinking she was being paranoid. When she was at the checkout counter, they were milling about somewhere in the vestuble because as soon as she was out the door, they were again following her back to the van. She whipped out the cell phone, which lights up like a UFO when in use and started dialing. As soon as they saw it, they took off running the other direction and she loaded up the van and left.
I already talked with her about this latest incident and everything she did wrong....too many things to count. She now knows what to do if something like that happens again.
It must be the way she carries herself or the fact she is driving a van and armed with a kid that makes her easy prey for these people. She walks the dog in the daylight hours and I keep telling her something is going to happen to her but she won't listen. She goes at about the same times each day and someone is going to grab her if she isn't armed. She carries mace but that is only so effective.
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Target. Just like the young lady in Kansas, she picked up a man that was following her around the store. Getting too close for comfort and just acting strange....hard to qualify but acting strange. My wife, not wanting to be rude as any Southern woman is taught, just kept shopping. He kept up with her isle for isle. Even when she half ran across the store to get away from him (into the bra section no less) he was there in seconds. Finally, she whipped out the cell phone and called me....what am I supposed to do half way across the State?. When she did that, he took off....I mean literally TOOK off almost in a run. Soon after that, a security guard for the store approached and said he was watching the guy with the cameras and was on his way to intercept him when she called me. They couldnt' find him. So the security guard walked her to the car.
Kroger Saturday night. I usually go shopping after dark for good reasons. Saturday my wife and 4 year old daughter had to go, I couldn't. So she parks, checks the surroundings, gets out and gets my daughter out of her side of the car. As soon as they come around the side of the van, there stands two latino men at her back bumper nearest the passenger side tail light. It startled my wife because she knows the cars all around her were empty so they walked up there, stopped, and were waiting for her to get out. She swept way wide of the men (picking my daughter up and moving with her fast) and the men spoke in spanish for a few seconds and quickly followed her. She kept seeing them in the store but thought nothing of it, thinking she was being paranoid. When she was at the checkout counter, they were milling about somewhere in the vestuble because as soon as she was out the door, they were again following her back to the van. She whipped out the cell phone, which lights up like a UFO when in use and started dialing. As soon as they saw it, they took off running the other direction and she loaded up the van and left.
I already talked with her about this latest incident and everything she did wrong....too many things to count. She now knows what to do if something like that happens again.
It must be the way she carries herself or the fact she is driving a van and armed with a kid that makes her easy prey for these people. She walks the dog in the daylight hours and I keep telling her something is going to happen to her but she won't listen. She goes at about the same times each day and someone is going to grab her if she isn't armed. She carries mace but that is only so effective.
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). One of the other posters had a good point on the stores not allowing CCW. That would be something to work around, but I think whatever signals she is sending out that scumbags are picking up on might change if she had the confidence of being armed and trained to use her weapon.