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doncb wrote:Hearing of people carrying when they are home always struck me as a bit not paranoid but a bit much. After all, what could happen at home?

Well, a couple of nights ago I had something happen that made me rethink carrying while I'm home. It was around 11:00 at night and when I went to take the trash out the garage door broke. One of the rollers came off of the track. Naturally it was the hardest one to get to. As I'm up on the ladder, wrestling with the door, this guy walks up and starts a story about how he lives just down the street and is buying a car from some woman who lives in some apartments and he locked the keys in the car, yada, yada. Then he asks me if I could please take him to get keys from her because she doesn't drive at night. Then he tells me his kid is in the car. I started to feel just a bit uncomfortable. Told him I had to fix the door and he tells me he can wait!. I told him I had to fix the door and he couldn't wait. Never seen him before and he doesn't live "down the street". He did leave and after I finished with the door, it suddenly hit me, what if he had done something right then and there? (There was no way I was going to drive him anywhere. I'm not that stupid. No, really I'm not.) I was so focused on fixing the door that I had tunnel brain. The situation didn't feel right and it made me realize that you don't have to be out somewhere else for something to happen. I carry at home now and always will from now on. Lesson learned.