hsmith
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I was at the mall today with my lovely g/f and her sister shopping around. We procede to leave and head out to dinner with her parents.
We are walking through a pretty packed parking lot, a car pulls into a handicap spot in front of us and we keep on walking, as thinking nothing of it. The woman in the car yells out "I am backing up" as we are walking behind and backs into us. I narrowly escape and tap the trunk as she almost runs me over. She still keeps going and almost runs over my g/f who yells out "watch out" and taps the trunk as well.
Some could construe tapping the trunk as "aggression" but what else are you to do as a 4000lb object comes at you and you try to dodge the way! I've had it done to my vehicle a time or two when someone appears out of my rear I didn't see in a parking garage.
But we keep walking and ignore it - no harm no foul - one shouldn't get them selves into confrontations. The woman starts screaming expletives at us while we are walking away, all while her young 4-5 year old child is in the car with her. It goes on for 10-15 seconds as we are walking with her adding a "I will kick your ass" on the end of it.
My g/f knows better than to engage in verbal confrontations, especially now that I carry. Leading on arguments is just, as you all know, a bad situation. So we say nothing and walk to my vehicle.
My question being, if the woman actually got out of her vehicle and started to approach us, at what point would you deem it acceptable to switch to defensive mode? If she started approaching and got within 50 feet, what would you do? Demand her to stop? Switch to OC if she doesn't stop and continues towards you? At that point the confrontation really escalates - I would have had one of them get on the phone with 911 first off if she had gotten out and followed. To me it seems like an all around bad situation which thankfully never got anywhere near out of hand. I think most are filled with hot air, which graciously this turned out to be.
I was at the mall today with my lovely g/f and her sister shopping around. We procede to leave and head out to dinner with her parents.
We are walking through a pretty packed parking lot, a car pulls into a handicap spot in front of us and we keep on walking, as thinking nothing of it. The woman in the car yells out "I am backing up" as we are walking behind and backs into us. I narrowly escape and tap the trunk as she almost runs me over. She still keeps going and almost runs over my g/f who yells out "watch out" and taps the trunk as well.
Some could construe tapping the trunk as "aggression" but what else are you to do as a 4000lb object comes at you and you try to dodge the way! I've had it done to my vehicle a time or two when someone appears out of my rear I didn't see in a parking garage.
But we keep walking and ignore it - no harm no foul - one shouldn't get them selves into confrontations. The woman starts screaming expletives at us while we are walking away, all while her young 4-5 year old child is in the car with her. It goes on for 10-15 seconds as we are walking with her adding a "I will kick your ass" on the end of it.
My g/f knows better than to engage in verbal confrontations, especially now that I carry. Leading on arguments is just, as you all know, a bad situation. So we say nothing and walk to my vehicle.
My question being, if the woman actually got out of her vehicle and started to approach us, at what point would you deem it acceptable to switch to defensive mode? If she started approaching and got within 50 feet, what would you do? Demand her to stop? Switch to OC if she doesn't stop and continues towards you? At that point the confrontation really escalates - I would have had one of them get on the phone with 911 first off if she had gotten out and followed. To me it seems like an all around bad situation which thankfully never got anywhere near out of hand. I think most are filled with hot air, which graciously this turned out to be.