If This Toe Touches This Carpet

[Embalmo]

First campus carry experience just now. I just walked my 15 year old to an office in the UT Moody Communication Building. Big ugly 30.06, I guess justified by some kind of medical research, on the office door.

I stood at the entrance with the door held open and asked, "Do you need me?" A woman answered, "You can come on in." I told her, as I hovered my foot over the entrance and said, "If this toe touches this carpet, I'm breaking the law." 3, 2, 1 light bulbs popped over the heads of the 3 women in the office. The woman told me that I wasn't needed and could wait in the hall. My hope is that this encounter has pointed out, to at least a few, the futility of their signage.

Embalmo

[NotRPB]

I like how you handled that.

[casp625]

it sure sounded like the ladies gave your oral permission to enter the building despite the signage... well, up until you mentioned the signage then they revoked that permission

[Acronym Esq]

First campus carry experience just now. I just walked my 15 year old to an office in the UT Moody Communication Building. Big ugly 30.06

So I'm sitting at the front desk at the Communication building this morning covering the information table for Judy. This wierd guy wearing a huge Hawaian shirt brings his kid in. The kid wants to know where the computer lab is, but his dad stays by the doors and won't come in. I told him to come in so we could talk like normal people and he tells me he's carrying a gun. Thank God for those new no gun signs they put up. I told him he should stay out. What kind of paranoid lunatic takes his 15 year old kid to campus with a gun? Take that as a lesson - you never know when someone with a gun is walking around. Without those signs, who knows what he would have done.

I could totally hear her side of the story in my head. Fun writing the other side. Eh eh.

Acronym 10/25/2016 9:27 AM

[ELB]

When I read the title, I imagined this was going to be about talking to your kid if he brought an ice cream cone with hot fudge sauce anywhere near the living room carpet again...

[RogueUSMC]

First campus carry experience just now. I just walked my 15 year old to an office in the UT Moody Communication Building. Big ugly 30.06

So I'm sitting at the front desk at the Communication building this morning covering the information table for Judy. This wierd guy wearing a huge Hawaian shirt brings his kid in. The kid wants to know where the computer lab is, but his dad stays by the doors and won't come in. I told him to come in so we could talk like normal people and he tells me he's carrying a gun. Thank God for those new no gun signs they put up. I told him he should stay out. What kind of paranoid lunatic takes his 15 year old kid to campus with a gun? Take that as a lesson - you never know when someone with a gun is walking around. Without those signs, who knows what he would have done.

I could totally hear her side of the story in my head. Fun writing the other side. Eh eh.

Acronym 10/25/2016 9:27 AM

That huge Hawaiian shirt would just be a target...triggering some youngster with that kind of fashion feau pas is not wise...

[lowdogtx]

selling all my Hawaiian shirts

[ScottDLS]

First campus carry experience just now. I just walked my 15 year old to an office in the UT Moody Communication Building. Big ugly 30.06

So I'm sitting at the front desk at the Communication building this morning covering the information table for Judy. This wierd guy wearing a huge Hawaian shirt brings his kid in. The kid wants to know where the computer lab is, but his dad stays by the doors and won't come in. I told him to come in so we could talk like normal people and he tells me he's carrying a gun. Thank God for those new no gun signs they put up. I told him he should stay out. What kind of paranoid lunatic takes his 15 year old kid to campus with a gun? Take that as a lesson - you never know when someone with a gun is walking around. Without those signs, who knows what he would have done.

I could totally hear her side of the story in my head. Fun writing the other side. Eh eh.

Acronym 10/25/2016 9:27 AM

That huge Hawaiian shirt would just be a target...triggering some youngster with that kind of fashion feau pas is not wise...

Unless you are a Pacific Islander...wearing a Hawaiian Shirt is cultural appropriation. You have committed a micro-agression.

[TexasJohnBoy]

Unless you are a Pacific Islander...wearing a Hawaiian Shirt is cultural appropriation. You have committed a micro-agression.

[mojo84]

First campus carry experience just now. I just walked my 15 year old to an office in the UT Moody Communication Building. Big ugly 30.06, I guess justified by some kind of medical research, on the office door.

I stood at the entrance with the door held open and asked, "Do you need me?" A woman answered, "You can come on in." I told her, as I hovered my foot over the entrance and said, "If this toe touches this carpet, I'm breaking the law." 3, 2, 1 light bulbs popped over the heads of the 3 women in the office. The woman told me that I wasn't needed and could wait in the hall. My hope is that this encounter has pointed out, to at least a few, the futility of their signage.

Embalmo

You sure got them told.

[JustSomeOldGuy]

Unless you are a Pacific Islander...wearing a Hawaiian Shirt is cultural appropriation. You have committed a micro-aggression.

Ah, but I carry a gun and camouflage it under a Hawaiian shirt for defeating MACRO-aggression. And I didn't appropriate the shirt, I PAID for it. If the Hawaiians don't want me to have it, they shouldn't offer it for sale.

[RogueUSMC]

Unless you are a Pacific Islander...wearing a Hawaiian Shirt is cultural appropriation. You have committed a micro-aggression.

Ah, but I carry a gun and camouflage it under a Hawaiian shirt for defeating MACRO-aggression. And I didn't appropriate the shirt, I PAID for it. If the Hawaiians don't want me to have it, they shouldn't offer it for sale.

I always get a chuckle when I see the word 'appropriation'...

Being a Marine, our ethos are such that we don't lie, cheat or steal. Over in the gulf war, we 'appropriated' anything we needed that wasn't nailed down or sat on by a soldier...lol. The First Shirt said we weren't stealing it, we were 'appropriating' it...lol.

In the back of my mind, I see that word used like it is nowadays and wonder how it is that I can possibly 'steal' someone's culture???

[Jusme]

I thought native Hawaiians, went shirtless. I think they "appropriated" the tourist's culture.

[JustSomeOldGuy]

In the early 1940's, they used the term "liberated", for more than just previously Japanese and German occupied real estate.

[Kkpsiknl]

Technically speaking I think your toe would be ok. Your whole body has to enter I believe.