What a way to end the day

In the last year, I'd forgot my cell-phone once. My wallet twice. My gun once. I believe everyone should have a setup that they take with 'em on a daily basis: knife, phone, gun, flashlight, wallet, & maybe a lighter.
 
Its possible to live without indoor plumbing or electricity, but why do so when modern living can enhance the quality of life so much? I see my smartphone the same way. Its like having, in addition to a phone and an email device, an encyclopedia in my pocket. I can also access my books that are on my Kindle, play games while waiting somewhere, use the GPS navigator to get to locations or find my way home, etc, etc.

I virtually never have left my home without my phone. I have, on occasion, left without my gun since I rarely carry within the house and sometimes have run out for an errand without stopping at my small gun safe to retrieve my firearm before departing. With grandkids often in my home I won't ever leave my gun unsecure, not even for a moment, so it will never be as readily available for automatically putting into my pocket like my wallet, keys, phone and money clip.
 
the thing I have always hated about cell phones (other than the "plans" which I feel are rip offs) is the general attitude that some how you are wrong not to have one.

On the other hand, we have COPS today who can do a thousand things on their phone, but don't know how to unload a revolver!

While I have lived into it, I am NOT a 21st century man, not by a long shot.
 
I had all of those attitudes . I remember when cell phones first became common . You know after they were car phones .

I thought why would I need a cell phone my land line works just fine . Then I got one and thought how did I get along with out it .

Then the I-Pod came out and I thought the same thing . Why one of those things ? My CD player works just fine . Then I got one and thought why would you NOT have one ? All your music in something the size of a pack smokes rather then 5 shelves in the den .

Then the smart phone comes out and guess what I still had not got over being old and stubborn and again asked why . Then got the same answer as above .

OMG my dad ( in his late 70's ) gets a new phone last year and refuses to get anything better then a cheap flip phone . with the same reasoning I had for all the above . We text back and fort all the time and there he is pushing tunes of buttons just to write one simple word .

The least people could be is honest with them selves . The reason you don't have a cell phone is not because you don't need one . It's because you're to stubborn or intimidated by the technology .I know I was but getting better . I can't tell you how many times my phone has saved my you know what in ways you would not think . I'm sure my phone has saved my life more times then any firearm has . Definitely more useful day to day .
 
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This stuff happens to me all the time. Ok maybe three times a year.

My house is THAT house. yea the magnet house. if some thing is going to happen on my road, it happens in front of my place. And if not they will push the car till they are in front of my place.

We answer through the door and tell who ever it is. " We have called the Sheriff and they will be here shortly to help you"

Last week I got yelled at from the deputy. Not because I called, but because I waited 30 minutes before I called.

Had a car sitting 100 yards north of my drive. We sat there and watched him. Dark could not really see any thing.
Finally my wife said. " I am calling"
Sheriff showed up and met the driver. They talked for a bit and the guy drove off.
Deputy calls, Told us the guy was just talking to his girl friend on the phone.
Then he yells at me. " Why did you wait so long to call?" Notes said he was there 30- 40 minutes before you called.
I said yea.. I didn't know.....
He said hey. This is how we catch the people breaking into houses.
If they are parked were no one would park. You call right away.
Most times its nothing just like tonight. But some times we get them.
Dont worry about inconveniencing us. We want to know.
I said " yes Sir..."

In your case.. get a cell phone. I dont knock on any ones door any more.
 
Pause, I hear what you are saying but unfortunately not all LEOs are like your local deputies. There are lots of places where they will get mad at you if you "waste their time" with those kinds of calls. Sounds like you've got a good bunch of deputies on your side.
 
I'm sorry, I can't get over the fact that you don't have a cell phone. I only know a single adult who doesn't have a cell phone, and that's my grandfather who is 90 years old;

I don't own a cell phone, never have. I also know a few people who don't own one.
 
The cell phone to the masses is one of the greatest technological advances in human history. Why someone would refuse to own one is much more bizarre to me than the reaction of this couple. Who, btw, did you a FAVOR by answering the door and lending you their phone.
 
But then this thread isn't abut cell phones. It's about someone who went out unprepared and had to rely on the kindness of strangers for help, and then, after they helped him, he had the audacity to call them the stupid ones because they were prepared. But as I said in an earlier post, the whole story sounds so far fetched, it tends to make me think it was a figment of someone's imagination from the start.
 
The homeowners should have kept their guns holstered or in a low-ready position. They should not have opened the door. They should have called local law enforcement and told them a stranger was wandering around the neighborhood. As others have noted, criminals of all types will knock on the door to see if anyone is home or if the home owner is "easy pickins" like a senior citizen. It really is the oldest ruse in the book. And as a "state licensed security specialist" you, of all people, should know that.

These homeowners may have been previously victimized and traumatized. Instead of putting these poor people down, learn from your experience and get a cell phone and be grateful they helped you at all.
 
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