AbNo
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After getting to hear the "puh-TING!" of steel plates as targets, There was a definitive decision to pick up some.
Having been in there to browse a couple of times, I figured Tractor Supply Co. on 33 in Harrisonburg might have them....
Didn't think anything of OC'ing with Shayne, "It's TSC, This is one of the LAST places I would expect anyone to have a problem with [OC]."
Boy was I wrong...
We go in, make our way around the store, poking at odd bits and ends. In the back corner of the story, we pass by three women, two of whom obviously work there. One I would also presume (wrongly, I found out later) works there.
We're quickly running out of aisles, and the two workers come up to us, with the third woman skulking behind them.
Ch: *look of "That guy probably shouldn't be here"* "Excuse me, sir...."
Me: "Ah, yes ma`am, do you have any half-inch or three-quarter inch steel plate? Perhaps one by one foot?"
Ch: "Steel plate? No, I wanted to tell you you can't have that here."
I started to ask her specifically what the reasoning was (I was expecting "OC is illegal!!!one), when Skulker jumps in from behind the three of them...
Sk: "Do you HAVE a permit for that? That's ILLEGAL!" (original ephasis included)
Me: "Open carry does not require a permit in Virginia." *thinking "God, here we go...."
Me: *turn back to the workers Ch and Ni* *start to state that it was not posted,
A three minute argument with this Skulker (never got her name) ensues.
Ch and Ni ask us to take our guns outside. I ask if I can simply grab a HiLift Jack I'd seen and leave, as I had no desire to return to the store if I was going to be harassed like that.
The workers agreed, I thanked them, gave a displeased look to Skulker, grabbed my jack, and waited in line. The girl at the counter was pleasant, but obviously nervous. I'm sure she could hear the :cuss: and :cuss: from the front, as it's a pretty open area.
I meet up with Shayne, who simply went outside and waited in his car. As we were starting to leave the parking lot, and discussing what happened, he commented that someone should probably call the manager, and I asked if he'd wait a minute while I went in, unarmed, and got the names of the three women inside.
I go in, armed with only a pen and a receipt, they aren't where we left them, but I can hear them behind the rack of car batteries, an employees-only area, which only makes me think EVEN MORE that Skuler works there...
So, I wait a minute, and Ch, Ni, and Skulker come out. I apologize to Ch and Ni, and explain to them that, because of the actions of their coworker (nodding in Sk's direction), and am immediately interrupted by all three of them that she's a customer, and does not in fact work there.
So, being that only two of them work there, I try to apologize to Ch and Ni, stating that, based on her actions, I had presumed Skulker worked there, and thanked them for their level-headed actions earlier, and started to say I was still going to need to call someone, as Skulker's actions were quite inappropriate, and I would not shop in a place where I would be harassed like this...
Ch (apparently the spokesman for the group
) started to tell me something. Skulker, apparently HORRIBLY INSULTED that someone might call her out for being a :monkey in public YELLS over the top of them about how VT this, and dangerous that, and how it's not needed in TSC....
I start to refute some of her points, as before, in the previous encounter, but she continues on the "If I talk over them, they can't prove me wrong" technique....
Finally fed up with getting interrupted six times in a row, I finally tell her...
"If you'd quit being a LIBERAL for five seconds, and stop talking over me, perhaps I could say something."
It's fun being a good foot taller than other people, they
listen when you speak up. :lol:
Fires of rage burn in Skulker's eyes, she balls her fists, reaches one hand behind her, and starts walking towards me.
Ch, apparently knowing this woman pretty well, literally grabs Skulker by the shoulders and pulls her back.
Skulker pretty mutters a lot, and tries to talk over Ch,, Ni and myself as we pretty much ignore her while I talk to Ch and am told the manager is on vacation.
Ch also told me they'd enquired with the Hburg PD, and the PD told them it was in fact legal.
I should also note that I lived in Chestnut Ridge, the apartment complex behind TSC. I got to watch a drive-by shooting there right before I moved out early this year.
So, next week, I'll call TSC, ask for the manager that was on vacation this current week, and... that's going to be fun....
"I simply will not patronize a business where I am forced to disarm, if there are shootings down the same street, and crazy people trying to physically assault me in your stores."
On the plus side, I DID manage to get a 48" Hi-Lift jack for under $60....
This won't discourage me from OC, though. Kind of reminds me of going to a Protest Warrior event.... :celebrate
After getting to hear the "puh-TING!" of steel plates as targets, There was a definitive decision to pick up some.
Having been in there to browse a couple of times, I figured Tractor Supply Co. on 33 in Harrisonburg might have them....
Didn't think anything of OC'ing with Shayne, "It's TSC, This is one of the LAST places I would expect anyone to have a problem with [OC]."
Boy was I wrong...
We go in, make our way around the store, poking at odd bits and ends. In the back corner of the story, we pass by three women, two of whom obviously work there. One I would also presume (wrongly, I found out later) works there.
We're quickly running out of aisles, and the two workers come up to us, with the third woman skulking behind them.
Ch: *look of "That guy probably shouldn't be here"* "Excuse me, sir...."
Me: "Ah, yes ma`am, do you have any half-inch or three-quarter inch steel plate? Perhaps one by one foot?"
Ch: "Steel plate? No, I wanted to tell you you can't have that here."
I started to ask her specifically what the reasoning was (I was expecting "OC is illegal!!!one), when Skulker jumps in from behind the three of them...
Sk: "Do you HAVE a permit for that? That's ILLEGAL!" (original ephasis included)
Me: "Open carry does not require a permit in Virginia." *thinking "God, here we go...."
Me: *turn back to the workers Ch and Ni* *start to state that it was not posted,
A three minute argument with this Skulker (never got her name) ensues.
Ch and Ni ask us to take our guns outside. I ask if I can simply grab a HiLift Jack I'd seen and leave, as I had no desire to return to the store if I was going to be harassed like that.
The workers agreed, I thanked them, gave a displeased look to Skulker, grabbed my jack, and waited in line. The girl at the counter was pleasant, but obviously nervous. I'm sure she could hear the :cuss: and :cuss: from the front, as it's a pretty open area.
I meet up with Shayne, who simply went outside and waited in his car. As we were starting to leave the parking lot, and discussing what happened, he commented that someone should probably call the manager, and I asked if he'd wait a minute while I went in, unarmed, and got the names of the three women inside.
I go in, armed with only a pen and a receipt, they aren't where we left them, but I can hear them behind the rack of car batteries, an employees-only area, which only makes me think EVEN MORE that Skuler works there...
So, I wait a minute, and Ch, Ni, and Skulker come out. I apologize to Ch and Ni, and explain to them that, because of the actions of their coworker (nodding in Sk's direction), and am immediately interrupted by all three of them that she's a customer, and does not in fact work there.
So, being that only two of them work there, I try to apologize to Ch and Ni, stating that, based on her actions, I had presumed Skulker worked there, and thanked them for their level-headed actions earlier, and started to say I was still going to need to call someone, as Skulker's actions were quite inappropriate, and I would not shop in a place where I would be harassed like this...
Ch (apparently the spokesman for the group
) started to tell me something. Skulker, apparently HORRIBLY INSULTED that someone might call her out for being a :monkey in public YELLS over the top of them about how VT this, and dangerous that, and how it's not needed in TSC....I start to refute some of her points, as before, in the previous encounter, but she continues on the "If I talk over them, they can't prove me wrong" technique....
Finally fed up with getting interrupted six times in a row, I finally tell her...
"If you'd quit being a LIBERAL for five seconds, and stop talking over me, perhaps I could say something."
It's fun being a good foot taller than other people, they
listen when you speak up. :lol:
Fires of rage burn in Skulker's eyes, she balls her fists, reaches one hand behind her, and starts walking towards me.
Ch, apparently knowing this woman pretty well, literally grabs Skulker by the shoulders and pulls her back.
Skulker pretty mutters a lot, and tries to talk over Ch,, Ni and myself as we pretty much ignore her while I talk to Ch and am told the manager is on vacation.
Ch also told me they'd enquired with the Hburg PD, and the PD told them it was in fact legal.
I should also note that I lived in Chestnut Ridge, the apartment complex behind TSC. I got to watch a drive-by shooting there right before I moved out early this year.
So, next week, I'll call TSC, ask for the manager that was on vacation this current week, and... that's going to be fun....
"I simply will not patronize a business where I am forced to disarm, if there are shootings down the same street, and crazy people trying to physically assault me in your stores."
On the plus side, I DID manage to get a 48" Hi-Lift jack for under $60....
This won't discourage me from OC, though. Kind of reminds me of going to a Protest Warrior event.... :celebrate
