Finally got a good amount of rain here today. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is, after weeks of heat and smoke, to finally get some relief. The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to be but sometimes theres a price and that price is paid by your lungs.
I seem to have stumbled across another LMI at work this week. Theres a fella working in our delivery/shipping/warehouse section who came up to me and said “I hear youre a real gun guy”. We chatted about guns and, of course, out came the cell phones to show favorite guns. His collection of guns, plate carriers, and strong opinions about gear readily paints him as, if not on the same team, certainly in our division.
Today he came by my desk to show off some Ferro Concepts stuff and some other things. One of which impressed me enough that I jumped onto my work computer and ordered some stuff up from these guys. (As an aside, this is often how I discover awesome gear. I see or encounter someone with it and I think “Holy crap, thats awesome. I need that!”)
He was wearing some Kifaru gear today, and we chatted about Kifaru and some other gear makers. He knows his stuff. I haven’t trickled into end-of-the-world stuff, but we did exchange some morale patches that leaned in that direction. I think he was excited to meet someone who he could geek out with over all this stuff.
This is, by the way, the organic way that you wind up meeting like-minded individuals. In my experience, in Montana anyway, you get yourself and five other guys in a room it’s pretty good odds that one of them is a ‘gun guy’ and theres a pretty good chance there’s a ‘prepper’ type in there as well. If you work in an environment of about twenty people or so, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t at least one guy like that.
While I can certainly chat over the water cooler at work with this guy and compare notes, I don’t think I’ll be bringing him ‘into my world’. I’ve a tiny handful of people I freely share information and access with, but I’m really not keen to bring anyone else into the fold right now. Thats probably a little short-sighted since there are, no doubt, people out there who would be great to have in my tight little circle, but its always a risk. And, its not only a risk to me, its a risk to the others in that circle. But…I’ve done it in the past so I guess we can’t say ‘never’.
Yannow… I recently started a new job, and met a guy here who is also a recovering yankee… so we hit it off and started getting along. I contemplated inviting him over on a Friday after work for a soda-pop or two, but I’m his supervisor, and… well, better to err…
About a month later he started acting all whacky and different… and lets just say I’m glad I never brought him into my world.
Yeah…right now the stakes are just too high.
LMI ? Always suspicious of someone I don’t know coming up to me and start talking about guns.
Did I leave a moral patch with those MROs I sold you a while back? If not, I need to send you one.
Did indeed, thank you. When the weather cools down enough for me to wear jackets I’ll have it in my patch rotation.
Wear it around in Hamilton and you’ll eventually get asked about it. Hopefully in a good way!
I’m just surprised you haven’t run into the Lockpicking Lawyer on YT and his Covert Instruments site.
Definitely a good source of info.
Kurt
Yeah, i enjoy talking with people about guns and stuff in general but I have to know them a long time before totally opening up. Even then it’s probably not good. other than family of which i have a good one, and a few decade’s long friends, I’m not eager to induct people in anymore. Had a couple of people I really like and knew for a few years. kid’s the same age as mine, ex mil and cops. We did stuff a lot as family’s. When I started to have medical issues and couldn’t get together as often, they pretty much ghosted me, hard. At this point I consider them potential liabilities in theoretical futures due to how much they know. Do I think they would do something, mostly not, but our friendship wasn’t what I thought it was. It left me really saddened.
LMI…. I”m very guarded in this regard. Lots of LMIs out there. A few at work for me too, but excactly ONE I would trust. They could show up with a need and I’d have no problem helping them out. Now, I don’t have a ptoblem helping most people out, but I”d really go out of my way to help this individual. I don’t know if it’s age that makes me more cautious with younger individuals? Certainly I was young and impetious once too!