Yesterday's What The Heck Moment...

[MasterofFajitas]

I had to run over to the nearest CVS yesterday and DID NOT take my pistol nor my dog as I was going to be gone "for a minute". When I came out of the store, I got in the truck and locked the doors out of habit. No sooner did it click, a woman tried to open the passenger door (forcefully) then decided to come walk over to my side. I yelled at her to back off and she did but at that point a truck pulled in directly behind me and she made a bee line for it and away they went.

Lesson learned.

Never again.

[MrIan]

Odd...did you notice if the truck she got into looked similar to yours? She may have just mistaken the vehicle. Anyways, it looks like I need to make locking my car doors right away a habit.

[Medic218]

That's no mistake she made, she wanted your car. The truck pulling up behind you and her taking off in said truck is a HUGE red flag! Pistol and fido aside I'm sure you had your phone, 911 should have been called and vehicle description and plate given if possible.
That being said I'm sure I probably would have still been in shock and disbelief as to what had just happned that I might not have been able to follow my own advice as I sat in my truck watching them drive away asking myself the same thing....."what the heck was that"?

Glad you're ok!

[MasterofFajitas]

Odd...did you notice if the truck she got into looked similar to yours? She may have just mistaken the vehicle. Anyways, it looks like I need to make locking my car doors right away a habit.

Good point but it wasn't mistaken identity. Had she not had meth head teeth and that overall crack head look, I would agree with you. I may be profiling but...she fits the profile.

[Quahog]

Odd...did you notice if the truck she got into looked similar to yours? She may have just mistaken the vehicle. Anyways, it looks like I need to make locking my car doors right away a habit.

Good point but it wasn't mistaken identity. Had she not had meth head teeth and that overall crack head look, I would agree with you. I may be profiling but...she fit the profile.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

[dicion]

Odd...did you notice if the truck she got into looked similar to yours? She may have just mistaken the vehicle. Anyways, it looks like I need to make locking my car doors right away a habit.

Good point but it wasn't mistaken identity. Had she not had meth head teeth and that overall crack head look, I would agree with you. I may be profiling but...she fit the profile.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

It must be a duck... unless of course it weighs less than or the same as a duck.. then it's a Witch.

[Grog]

If you can't judge a book by it's cover, why put covers on books?

[threoh8]

When I came out of the store, I got in the truck and locked the doors out of habit.

Lesson learned, and good habit confirmed. I developed the habit of locking car doors several years ago, and this type of scenario is one of the reasons. Now, if my wife and son would follow suit ...

[bdickens]

Odd...did you notice if the truck she got into looked similar to yours? She may have just mistaken the vehicle. Anyways, it looks like I need to make locking my car doors right away a habit.

You got to be kidding! It isn't already?

[PJK]

One of the members here has a great quote in their signature. I think this is it, but it gets the sentiment across well: "Carry always or guess right!"

In this case you did not guess right but were lucky. I am very glad for that. But remember to Carry Always. Maybe I have become a fanatic, but it is creepy out there and I have to protect myself and my family. That is why I have at least a Ruger LCP on my at all times, unless prohibited to carry by law. I especially carry around the house all the time.

[bnc]

Something similar happened to a friend of mine about a year ago, but she hadn't quite made it back to the car yet, good thing her boyfriend was a big, imposing looking football player.


This kind of incident makes pocket guns like the LCPs and LCRs out there look better and better since it is so easy to just toss it in your pocket with a pocket holster and go.

Glad my car doors lock upon startup.

[quidni]

Glad my car doors lock upon startup.

As long as they don't also unlock automatically when you shut the engine off...

That's my biggest beef with the company car we have to use when we're driving on office business. Newer vehicles can have that function turned off. Ours is just old enough that there's no safety switch (at least, not accessible to us) - engine on, doors lock. Engine off, doors unlock. ALL of them.

[dihappy]

When I came out of the store, I got in the truck and locked the doors out of habit.

Lesson learned, and good habit confirmed. I developed the habit of locking car doors several years ago, and this type of scenario is one of the reasons. Now, if my wife and son would follow suit ...

This is also a good time to evaluate your state of awareness and color codes. Where was she that she came up to your vehicle as soon as you got inside?
Was she hiding? In the future, what can you do different?

[MasterofFajitas]

When I came out of the store, I got in the truck and locked the doors out of habit.

This is also a good time to evaluate your state of awareness and color codes. Where was she that she came up to your vehicle as soon as you got inside?
Was she hiding? In the future, what can you do different?

To answer honestly, I will tell you that I have no idea where she came from. I did not see her when I walked to the truck from the store...I looked 180 degrees out of habit when I hit the threshold of the store. I believe she saw an opportunity when I looked down to snap the seatbelt. That means that she was close; perhaps she was behind a nearby column further down in the parking area.

The only things I could do differently is to look up and around when applying the seatbelt and park away from positions of cover opportunity such as columns etc. In a perfect world, I would have preferred to have my American Bulldog in the front seat of the truck as well...I would have known someone was nearby sooner.

[.45mac.40]

Crazy, Brave or Desperate ...
(Glad nothing happened to you)

Don't most types, like these, KNOW... EVERYONE IN TEXAS carriers a gun, or has one in their vehicle ??!! (Just sayin' )

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