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I've never done anything but lurk here since discovering this place around 6 months ago. Any encounter I've had since aqquiring my permit just seemed a little too trivial and since it usually involved idiotic people, I just never bothered to share it with anyone.
That is until now.....
I live in Dickson, Tennessee. I frequent 3 convenience stores in this town and only 3. They are on my way to and from work and the 3rd is 1 minute from where I live. Every employee knows me on a first name basis and every one of the employees know I carry. Or at least they SHOULD as I have walked up to the counter more times than I can count wearing same said .40 caliber on my side. This time one of the older ladies that I see there in the evening waited on me. As I reached for my wallet (which is on the same side as I carry) her eyes followed and that's when she realized what I had. She suddenly acted as if I had been caught with my hands in the cookie jar or something. She leans forward, and in a hushed tone says, "Ohhhhh...you can't come in here with THAT". Of course I just had to ask, "Why the h#ll not???!". She said something to the effect of, "Because you just can't. Corporate said nobody could come in here with a gun". I told her they need to stick a sign on the door if they want to disarm their patrons. I decided to go without the obligatory statement, "Then I'll take my business elsewhere" simply because I know she is making about 6.45$ an hour and frankly doesn't really care WHERE I go. Also, I really didn't want to escalate any of it any further.
Anyways, I've had worse encounters but for some reason this irritated the living #@$%% out of me. My parting words for her was, "Let me know on that..I would really like to read this no gun policy you mentioned". She agreed and said she would try and find it for me.
And so concludes my first writing to this forum. Sorry for the long winded rant, I believe it was therapeutic for me to tell this and was hoping it would make me feel a little better. I'm going to write to corporate BP and ask where this is coming from. I'll paste the correspondence here if anyone is interested.
Sincerely,
The Johnny Person
I've never done anything but lurk here since discovering this place around 6 months ago. Any encounter I've had since aqquiring my permit just seemed a little too trivial and since it usually involved idiotic people, I just never bothered to share it with anyone.
That is until now.....
I live in Dickson, Tennessee. I frequent 3 convenience stores in this town and only 3. They are on my way to and from work and the 3rd is 1 minute from where I live. Every employee knows me on a first name basis and every one of the employees know I carry. Or at least they SHOULD as I have walked up to the counter more times than I can count wearing same said .40 caliber on my side. This time one of the older ladies that I see there in the evening waited on me. As I reached for my wallet (which is on the same side as I carry) her eyes followed and that's when she realized what I had. She suddenly acted as if I had been caught with my hands in the cookie jar or something. She leans forward, and in a hushed tone says, "Ohhhhh...you can't come in here with THAT". Of course I just had to ask, "Why the h#ll not???!". She said something to the effect of, "Because you just can't. Corporate said nobody could come in here with a gun". I told her they need to stick a sign on the door if they want to disarm their patrons. I decided to go without the obligatory statement, "Then I'll take my business elsewhere" simply because I know she is making about 6.45$ an hour and frankly doesn't really care WHERE I go. Also, I really didn't want to escalate any of it any further.
Anyways, I've had worse encounters but for some reason this irritated the living #@$%% out of me. My parting words for her was, "Let me know on that..I would really like to read this no gun policy you mentioned". She agreed and said she would try and find it for me.
And so concludes my first writing to this forum. Sorry for the long winded rant, I believe it was therapeutic for me to tell this and was hoping it would make me feel a little better. I'm going to write to corporate BP and ask where this is coming from. I'll paste the correspondence here if anyone is interested.
Sincerely,
The Johnny Person