Salesmen lead the most interesting lives.

[fixthecopier]

Mike is the salesman who looks stone faced, old and grumpy, or just boring. I got back to the shop and saw him and the owner trying to operate a folder- inserter and I went over to help. The boss said something about who was going to deliver it. Mike said he could not be there in the morning. He looked at me and said he was working another job. Just to make small talk I ask what he was doing. He then told me he was driving an explosives truck. He said his son trains dogs on base to sniff explosives and he got him a job driving the truck because he had a hazmat license. Wow, I said, well I guess nobody will mess with you in that job, to which he replied "I almost got hijacked last week, now I have to get a concealed carry permit, [ for a handgun, for all you folks that live elsewhere.] It seems that the Hells Angels and Outlaws are going to war again, and they want the big stuff. It sure is hard to picture that mild mannered salesman hanging out the window of his explosives truck, popping off slugs into some hard core bikers, and then showing up to demo the new fax.

[blackcat4866]

Good story! There was one salesman that had a 45 cal, and a license to conceal. It didn't seem to improve his closure rate though... =^..^=

[RRodgers]

"Flashes gun...." " Ya sure you are not ready to buy? " LOL

[Shadow1]

I used tp carry a 9mm with me - had some really rough territory. And I know of another tech who had a full size Winchester .30-.30 in his car. He said, "You never know when you'll run across Muhammed the terrorist..."

[Stirton.M]

Sheesh...wish I lived south of the border. I wanted to take out a couple magpies in my hood a while back with an air pistol and a neighbor saw that and panicked and called the cops. 3 hours later, after getting grilled by the cops, along with on your knees, hands behind etc....they left.

Stupid people up here panic over stuff like that, like I am going to go on a killing spree or some shit. There are days I'll admit, but I can resist the voices....so long as they are not the voices of magpies. Hekyl and Jekyl are on my hit list.

[ToshibaTech]

" ... And I know of another tech who had a full size Winchester .30-.30 in his car. ... "

That just made me spit some water out LOL!!!!!!!

[pacman]

LOL! I knew of a few techs who carried (and some who still do) in their car. Luckily because I live in the wild wild west known as Arizona, I can also carry concealed.

[Herrmann]

ok, i must admit, that i am sometimes really have the wish to own a SPAS-12 loaded with BB cartriges, to annihilate some customers like in a splatter movie

maybe its good, that here in germany the property of shotguns is prohibited

[fixthecopier]

Since this turned into a thread about guns, I just had the heat pump replaced on my home. I put the old one up for sale on Craigs list and a guy just showed up and bought it. As we are talking about sorry customers, he relayed this tale , After helping a man with an ac system , mainly because the guy had kids, the man would not pay him and called him a crook. He went to the mans house and took out his handgun and pumped 5 slugs into the unit. He was then arrested and went to court where he was made to replace the unit. He said the man sat in court and laughed at him. After that the man called his brother who he said was very mean and nasty. He paid his brother $500 to beat the mans ass good, and said he got his moneys worth. He told his brother to tell him to think twice before he fucks over another AC man. I sure hope my old used AC works when he hooks it up!