godspel-13
Regular Member
Good blistering Sunday afternoon ladies and gentleman. It is a pleasure to have found your site and an honor to join.
For the premiere post, I would like share a great experience at a newer Williamsburg restaurant called "au bon pain."
I took my mother and wife out to eat, as the food there is delicious. After we got our meal, I noticed an unarmed, security officer walking around the parking lot in the vicinity of my F-150. I pulled my keys out of my pocket and was going to hit the panic button just to mess with the guy. As luck would have it, the son of a gun started looking in my truck. Oh my gosh! Would he see, in plain view, the two tennis rackets and card game "Apples to Apples" in the back seat???
I didn't want some strange dude checking out my truck talking on his walkie talkie. So I went out the side door yelled at the guy, "What the heck are you doing?" He rambled on about how there was a "crazy man" who had been harassing people at the Williamsburg Pottery earlier that day and drove a similar vehicle to mine. That's cool... Legit reason. I told him I wasn't the guy and respectfully, he apologized profusely to me.
As it turned out, the shift manager of "au bon pain" was the one who called the security in. After discovering what happened, she apologized sincerely to me. I mentioned about having a gun on my person and she replied: "We respect Virginia's laws that allow citizens to carry firearms in eating establishments."
I was floored! Unlike the Buffalo Wild Wings, which only allows uniformed officers to open carry, this restaurant is respectful and accommodating to Virginia law and common sense.
Enjoy your Sunday afternoon everyone. Don't melt. Look forward to posting, arguing, and hopefully meeting some of yinz (Pittsburgh lingo) at a breakfast soon!
-Erik aka godspel-13
For the premiere post, I would like share a great experience at a newer Williamsburg restaurant called "au bon pain."
I took my mother and wife out to eat, as the food there is delicious. After we got our meal, I noticed an unarmed, security officer walking around the parking lot in the vicinity of my F-150. I pulled my keys out of my pocket and was going to hit the panic button just to mess with the guy. As luck would have it, the son of a gun started looking in my truck. Oh my gosh! Would he see, in plain view, the two tennis rackets and card game "Apples to Apples" in the back seat???
I didn't want some strange dude checking out my truck talking on his walkie talkie. So I went out the side door yelled at the guy, "What the heck are you doing?" He rambled on about how there was a "crazy man" who had been harassing people at the Williamsburg Pottery earlier that day and drove a similar vehicle to mine. That's cool... Legit reason. I told him I wasn't the guy and respectfully, he apologized profusely to me.
As it turned out, the shift manager of "au bon pain" was the one who called the security in. After discovering what happened, she apologized sincerely to me. I mentioned about having a gun on my person and she replied: "We respect Virginia's laws that allow citizens to carry firearms in eating establishments."
I was floored! Unlike the Buffalo Wild Wings, which only allows uniformed officers to open carry, this restaurant is respectful and accommodating to Virginia law and common sense.
Enjoy your Sunday afternoon everyone. Don't melt. Look forward to posting, arguing, and hopefully meeting some of yinz (Pittsburgh lingo) at a breakfast soon!
-Erik aka godspel-13
