Something That Really Scared Me Last Night

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My son wanted to find a new Taco Bell. First choice was on the highway. It was dark and I was tired no...Then a new location popped up on the screen. Okay that area I feel better driving in. Heavy traffic meaning you don't have to worry about driving fast. We found it pretty easy but the joint was jumping.

I found a parking place and read in the car while he went in. I'm comfortable in the area, but you might want to lock your doors anyway. He had to wait in there a long time. Suddenly I hear POPPOPPOPPOP. I used to work near a gun range and I know that sound. I went wide eyed and stared in my rearview mirror.

If it was a shooting situation somebody, anybody would be running or reacting. Maybe it was a car or motorcycle backfiring? Maybe the people were so elated to be in a new Taco Bell they ignored it? But even if it was blocks away it creeped me out. Even if it had been a very bad situation I was completely blocked by other cars.

But the food was absolutely worth it!:p
 

Really though, where you shop, where you work. The register's at my job have an " Emergency open register" button". If someone is asking for the drawer you push one button and hands up so the perp can see them. The other is an active shooter video all employees must watch. An active shooter and you get out any way you can. Scary #$%&, ya'll.
 
I've heard a lot of things in my area that sound like gunshots, I'm not paranoid and don't overreact to such things. Maybe if I live in a heavy gang area I'd think differently, but I don't. Stores should have an emergency button and procedure for those things, I thought they did for decades now, maybe I'm wrong.
 

I'm sad to say that I hear gunshots within a mile of my house most nights, if I have the windows open, between 2:00am and 5:00am and it's not considered a bad neighborhood.

The world has changed since I was a kid. When I was growing up young men had fist fights and wrestled around until someone stepped in and broke up the fight. These days it's fourteen year old kids with guns and knives.

It is very sad and I'm not sure what can be done to change it until these kids can see a brighter future and place a higher value on their lives.
 
Really, even with gun control these kids don't get it sometimes. Yup he toadly disrespected you at sixteen. At twenty five and you're still away.
 
That is one reason I do not venture out after dark. We live in an area that was very rural when we built here but has really grown in the past 15 years. We used to never hear sirens but you can hear them any time of the day or night now. I can remember when I never thought a thing about going to a mall after I got off work to do some Christmas shopping and it would be dark outside. There is no way I would do that now and I don't want my grown children doing it either. When you turn on the news around here in the mornings, there is always a story about a shooting overnight in Atlanta! I don't think there is anyplace that is really "safe" anymore. Sad!
 
We hear gunshots in our area quite frequently....especially as hunting season nears. However, that is a Good thing. Were anyone dumb enough to come into this area and try to commit a crime, there is a good chance that they would face the business end of a deer rifle.
 
I would have been frightened if I heard the pop pop.
I'm always thinking that the woman across the road is going to shoot her husband, although now that she's in her mid-fifties, she stopped beating up him and his girlfriend.
 
A couple of years back I was traveling with my daughter who was about 22 at the time. We left the motel and a very early hour. Dear daughter was not satisfied with the motel coffee and had to have her Star Bucks. She pulled into a very isolated Star Bucks parking lot in what I thought was not exactly a nice neighborhood. As she was about to get out of the car we heard a terrible noise like multiple gun shots. Daughter was reluctant to leave without her coffee. I was scared stiff. A few moments later we saw the reason for the noise. A delivery man had opened the back of his truck which was all metal and opened accordion style. As it went up it made the gun shot sound, being very early on a cold damp day it sounded even louder than usual.. I was relieved but was shaking with fright for the next several miles. Daughter was happily drinking her coffee. Have they no fear at that age,or am I just old?
 

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