alot of places now have cameras watching the yards for theft prevention and insurance purposes.
How Common Is This Nonsense?
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In Texas, junkyards are pretty civil and I loan tools out and always get them back on almost every trip, but occasionally there are ***holes that forget we have concealed carry in Texas. Way less now than 10 years ago. People are much more civil, now, for some unknown reason. When they bump into you they apologize profusely always make eye contact and say "hi" or "how's it going" before they walk behind you.
I bounced in clubs in Montreal, Quebec and in Brandon, Florida just outside of Tampa, I got shot at twice in Montreal and took a gun off one other and only once Florida someone took a shot so I consider your part of the world safer than this place north of the border........but I have never been bothered in recycling yards here...
I had a guy randomly say while I was walking by him "nice tools". I was just thinking "why the **** do you care about my tools?"
This was my first trip to this paticular junkyard and first guy that walked past me. Thankfully I had my breaker bar in my hand.
This was my first trip to this paticular junkyard and first guy that walked past me. Thankfully I had my breaker bar in my hand.
Opie Knievel
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Possibly but I don't blame him for being suspicious. There are too many, no good, useless thieves out there nowadays. They'll compliment your stuff one minute and then steal it the next. You can't trust people anymore. You've always gotta be looking out for yourself and your stuff. It's sad but true.
I always initially treat a person with the premise that they are just another person like me. It's sad how this society has "advanced" from those days when people actually conversed face to face.
Doubtful. He was walking out as I was walking in. Either way nothing actually happened so it doesn't matter. I'd just rather be a judgmental ******* then a victim.
Opie Knievel
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Interacting with the public for the last few years has ruined my "niceness". I pretty much automatically assume that everyone is either a moron or a piece of sh*t until they prove otherwise. It's a pretty cynical way to be but so many people have shown me that they don't have common sense or that they'll rip anybody off.
I see it differently, if you are responding to others not based on how you would naturally respond but are intent to maintain your isolation from others then your are a victim. I would rather interact with people and not give them the opportunity to feel hostility towards me due to me ignoring them are reacting to them as a threat. All these social apps are robbing people of learning how to deal with people in face to face situations.
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