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I've only been carrying since Sept of 08 and haven't had to use my sidearm in any way, yet.
However, I did have a rather humorousincident occur many years ago.
Back in the late 70's, I was still married. I had been down in the woods behind my house when I returned to find a strange car in the driveway. I had my SA .22LR revolver holstered in western style drop holster. I walked up the side of the house to the front and found my wife (X-wife now for nearly 30 yearws) setting on the porch with a young fellow that had an array of brushes on display and what appeared to be a catalog that he was trying to show my wife.
When I stepped up on the porch, my wife's back was to me and the young feller was facing me. She turned to look at me and with a preturbed (this guy won't go away) look said," this guy's selling brushes and I've already told him when he got hereI didn't need anything. Do you need anything? I'm gonna start supper." And she got up to go inside. The salesman had already spotted my low slung 6 shooter, and my hand near the stocks (like a gunslinger just before the gun fight) and I'm pretty sure he had noticed my custom HD Sportster on hte porch behind him. It was one of those "deer in the headlights" moments. (You know, like this ----> :what
So I just gave him a sort of cross lookand said in my bestJosey Wellstone, "You still here?" I ain't never seen anyone pack up so fast in my life. He picked his chin up off the floor (that he had dropped when he saw be come around the corner of the house) scooped up all them brushes, stuffed them into his carry case and quick stepped it to his car (while not taking his eye offmy gun the whole time) and lit out of the drive way as if he was competing in the Gator Nationals.
Wify heard me laughin my butt off and came out to see what had happened. She saw the dust out front and asked me what I said to the guy. (She saw him peel out of the drive way) I told her, and she just said with a smile, "You are soooooooo mean". We were still snickerin' about it while we ate supper.