If you're afraid......buy a dog!

[fatbaldguy]

I had to go to Indy for training for my new employer.  HQ was just outside of downtown, right next to 'the hood'.  My hotel was not too far away and pretty close to 'the hood'.  I got to my room  after day one of training and found that the room had a kitchenette with a full size fridge, so on day two after training, I stopped in a local grocery on the way to the hotel.  I was shocked, shocked, i tell you, to find that I was the only white person shopping in that store.  I got more looks than a playboy calendar.

Got in line at the checkout, lots of wanna be thug types loitering around the front of the store.  I was pleasant with the cashier, making small talk.  The wanna be's were saying something about a cracker, I said, crackers are over in aisle 5.  It got real quiet.  The one I guessed to be thug in chief, said something about being afraid.  I looked him in the eye and dead panned the line that is the title of this thread.

Moral of the story?  I was stupid!  Shoulda asked at HQ about where to shop.  I was on a main road, but, once I saw the clientele, I should have left.  That's the no back up in me I guess.  I made it out alive, unharmed, and with no more confrontation than that described.

Yes, I was armed. 

[billt]

I would like to see one place "they" have moved into where prosperity exists, and high crime doesn't.........Of course that takes hard work and obeying the law. What was I thinking?  

[tombogan03884]

You weren't necessarily dumb , the first rule is to be observant to avoid trouble spots .
You blew that one.
But you handled the rest well in, my opinion, you left them wondering if you were trying to be helpful, or a smart ass.

[santahog]

You weren't necessarily dumb , the first rule is to be observant to avoid trouble spots .
You blew that one.
But you handled the rest well in, my opinion, you left them wondering if you were trying to be helpful, or a smart ass.

Gotta go with Tom on this one.. Fear brings the weak out to feed..

[Magoo541]

You weren't necessarily dumb , the first rule is to be observant to avoid trouble spots .
You blew that one.
But you handled the rest well in, my opinion, you left them wondering if you were trying to be helpful, or a smart ass.

I agree with Tom and I also will remember this when I travel.  I've found myself in a few places like that, not quite as bad, but in CA it would have been really bad except that Downey PD was two blocks away-behind our hotel.

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