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Abraham, I've had the same thing happen to me too.

At the Walmart in Sherman Texas at the intersection of highways 75 and 82, I've had a guy approach me numerous times.

Like you, I park in the back 1/3 of the lot, to avoid dings (to my vehicle, and anyone elses; i'm a little clumsy at times)

Anyways, on with the story: I've been at the same job for 6 years now, and I'm 24 years old. Ever since I've worked here, there has been an older gentleman that comes to the pawnshop next to my work, and pawns big ladders. Lets call him Fro. Like, twice a week. Popular theory is that he steals them from construction sites. While he's here, he always asks to clean our office window for some cash. We decline. He leaves.

Cue Hurricane Katrina. "Refugees" out the wazoo, sob stories galore. Granted, some of them may have been true, but their were shelters and whatnot set up, so I felt no urge to hand over cash to people hitting me up in the Arby's drive thru, know what I mean?

Anyways, Fro came up to me in the Walmart parking lot, telling me how he had fled the coast just ahead of Katrina, and now he needed to get some cash to try and make it back home, blah blah blah. If I hadn't seen the guy weekly for a couple years at that point, I may have offered to buy him some gas. Anyways, I told him that I knew him, and "Hey man, that was a sweet extension ladder you brought in the other day". He goes about his day, as do I.

THE NEXT WEEK, he does it again. Same story. I gave him a cigarette then reminded him who I was. Lol.


This was long before I had gotten my CHL, but I'm glad I have it now, because with crime on the rise, it may not be someone looking for a handout that comes up to me in the back part of the lot next time.