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While at work, no less. We are renovating an old grocery store shopping center, and while checking in on a vacant part of the building two guys popped out from behind some plywood and put a pistol to my head. Luckily they bugged out when some other people came around, and other than taking my phone (which they then dumped in the parking lot) they didn't do any permanent harm. All this before 9:00am.
I am home now enjoying some bourbon.

Bloody hell!

good to hear you're good!
enjoy the HECK out of that bourbon!

Double you tea eff. Glad you're ok.

Fuck! Glad the incident wasn't more "eventful."

Yikes.

--Jaeger

man, that's a bad day! Glad you are home safe and here's hoping the karma wheel does a number on the perps!

I ran out of Maker's so I a trying a new bourbon, Wathens. Never had it, it's kind of JD-esque I terms of dryness. Good, not great but I'll drink it nonetheless.
Yeah, I am settling down a bit now. Only had a gun pulled on me once before and that was by a police officer. Somehow it was scarier to have a hooded unknown perp jump out from behind a sheet of plywood pulling a gun on me rather than the PoPo. Fact is, I interrupted a burglary of an adjacent business which is still operating in our building during renovations, wrong place at the wrong time I guess.

Holy Shitballs!


Thanks for making my stresses sound not stressful.

Glad you're O.K.

Holy shit! That is no way to start your day.
Enjoy the bourbon.

Damn man, that just made my day seem not so bad. Glad you're safe.

Bloody fecking hell, mate!

Glad you're unharmed and able to sample new bourbon!

If you interrupted a burglary, and they got away with less than they would have, and you are unharmed (though obviously shaken), perhaps you were at the Right Place at the Right Time ... and the karmic impact is that you helped prevent further theft/damage/injury to someone else.

Fuckin' hell! Glad you're not shot. Bourbon sounds like the right idea.

I'm actually pretty fond of Wathens, though I very much hope I never drink it under those circumstances. Very glad you are alright.

Ya know, I haven't had a full working bike in almost two years, yet I have five (fucking five!) projects in various states of disrepair in my garage. I need to get them working again, I am tired of wasting my energy sitting on the couch. Also, pick up my banjo again. Don't make this out to be an epiphany, I've been thinking about this for a while, but yeah this sort of brought it to a head.

Lemons -> Lemonade

Not Shot -> Shots

It's all good.

Epiphany or not, I'll bet that bourbon tastes better than whatever I'll be boozing on tonight...

/RM

WOW, I'm VERY glad you are still with us!

And yeah, play your banjo, and then ride!

three suggestions, if i may.
1) sell all but the one project you love most. use the proceeds to buy a working bike, something not too old, somethin reliable you can just ride. painfull, this one, which is why i suggest keeping one. but you could get back on two right away, and with just one project, you'll eliminate a big load of stress while creating a focus for you build efforts, rather than diffusing 'em. and don't add further projects until you got one finished. or add them, but don't even look at more than one at a time until it's done. i duuno if it's what i myself would, or even could do. but it sounds like the rational thing to do, with the sheer number of projects and the timescale involved so far.
2) introduce yourself to the management of tha business and casually mention you do contracting (that's what you do, isn't it?) and leave 'em your businesscard. you saved their business from armed villains, at the risk of your life even. that's a recommendation if i ever heard one.
3) while waiting for potential buyers coming to inspect the bikes, or just at a red light, perhaps play banjo? you pretty much stared down a pair of masked gunmen, playing the banjo for no good reason seems ever so appropriate...

on the other hand, you just stared down a pair of masked gunmen, so who the heck am i to gove you any advice?

Fuck fuck fuck holy fuck. Holler out if you get the shakes later on.

If you ever get the chance, you should Punch Their Cocks, fully autonomously of course.

piccini9 wrote:If you ever get the chance, you should Punch Their Cocks, fully autonomously of course.

Seems like I only do that to people who have something I want (a job, a bike, etc). Kinda sucks.

As for the shakes yeah that came on last night. Lucky for me, I couldn't sleep so the nightmares didn't affect me.

Shit Hank, glad you're ok.

The shakes pass. The sleep will get you for a week or two, then once or twice for the next couple months. You'll be fine by DOOM, where we can buy drinks for a fully operational, not shot Texan.

The last time I drank Whiskey at 9am was after the Sierra Madre earthquake here in So Cal, which found me 6 stories up on a "swinging stage", which is one of those window washing platforms that hangs of the side of a building....Glad you're ok...those bastards....

tucko wrote:The last time I drank Whiskey at 9am was after the Sierra Madre earthquake here in So Cal, which found me 6 stories up on a "swinging stage", which is one of those window washing platforms that hangs of the side of a building....Glad you're ok...those bastards....

You should try a boatswains chair on the side of a 30 story building. That's some fun, although outside of a building in an earthquake in anything would pretty much suck balls.

They've got a getaway vehicle description but that's about it, no plate or other ID. So no, probably not although they will probably get picked up on an unrelated charge, get questioned as being suspects and released. Lets face it, apart from my testimony of assault with a deadly weapon (which they can always deny, it's not like I took a picture of their pistol) there's not much evidence that they really did anything, and I couldn't identify them if I tried.