On Keeping Quiet

[rhmc24]

Previous subject response -- repeated here of possible interest --

I decided long ago there's a time to keep quiet -- in a small town restaurant I tried to tell kid at the cash register my ticket was for two meals instead of three -- I should pay more. Kid yells "Dad" who comes boiling out of the kitchen like to foil a holdup. A long lot of talk, others waiting in line, etc. Never again ---

Years before in NY City, in line to pay my bill, cop in front of me, I noticed his Colt PPS in his holster at full cock. Called it to his attention & he goes ape, noisy telling me to mind my own biz, I thought I was about to get arrested, other people looking at me like I was a perp ---- shoulda learned it then ---->

 

[Inusuit]

IMHO, it's usually not a mistake to keep my mouth shut. However, if undercharged, I would speak up. Money mistakes these days are usually charged to the minimum wage employee who screwed up.

 

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

As a Chief Petty Officer during Vietnam, I was in San Diego fixing to go aboard the USS constellation. I was at the Navy Exchange on North Island doing some last minute shopping before the ship pulled out. I noticed a young Ensign in uniform with his ribbon bar backwards. I thought I was doing him a favor by quietly telling him of his mistake. He reacted like he was gut shot, did an immediate about face and virtually ran out of the store. That was 45 years ago and I vividly remember it. I often wonder if he was a poser, spy or just embarrassed.

 

[Jessie]

As far as that cops gun in the shoulder holster, was it a horizontal holster causing the muzzle to be pointing at me in line behind him?
I sure as hell would have said something also! The heck with him getting mad, better than me getting shot.

 

[Tom K]

As far as that cops gun in the shoulder holster, was it a horizontal holster causing the muzzle to be pointing at me in line behind him?
I sure as hell would have said something also! The heck with him getting mad, better than me getting shot.

Robert's post didn't say anything about it being a shoulder holster. But maybe I should just keep quiet about that....

 

[sousana]

Not long ago while at the local Taco Bell there was a mother and young daughter in line in front of me. The daughter said or did something and the mother turned around and smacked the begeezus out of her and kept at it. Lucky for me I had my phone handy and recorded the whole thing on video along with the mother's ranting. As it happened, a local LEO was in the table area and responded to the clerks yells. I gave the LEO a copy of the video. Last I heard the woman pleaded out and it was a neighbor woman not the girls mother.

On the subject of incorrect change, I was at Target yesterday getting my annual flu vaccine. I purchased a home cleaning product that came out to 16.96 of which I gave a $20. At my vehicle I counted my change to put the bills in my wallet and it seems the cashier gave me change for a $50. I go back in knowing that there is the possibility that the cashier could be charged, but also because it wasn't my change to take. The cashier insisted that he'd given me the correct change at which point I went to customer service and the manager pulled the cashiers drawer and it was indeed short. Youth these days.

 

[16thVACav]

"Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut" is good advice.

 

[Jessie]

Robert's post didn't say anything about it being a shoulder holster. But maybe I should just keep quiet about that....

Yes, you are right. I don't know why I thought he said shoulder holster. That's scary!
As Gilda Radner used to say...." Nevermind "

 

[bk42261]

Living up here in Maine, I (stupidly) posted something negative about Tom Brady on Facebook
Holy **** did I take a beating from all of his fans!!

 

[Doug627]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

 

[Badger1313]

Some LEOs carry single action semi-auto pistols "cocked and locked".

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[Watchdog]

I'm just gonna keep quiet about all this.

 

[Cardboard_killer]

Unfettered, I am a busibody know it all, so I have to police myself constantly to SHUT IT.

What gets me is that I am paid to give an opinion (that's actually the origin of the word Professional--to profess, give an expert opinion, like a doctor's opinion on what ails you), but am often ignored by people that think they know better. It's not so bad now, but it used to be very bad at my last position. And I got to the point where I would give my opinion, then sit back and watch as everything went to crud. I wouldn't say, I told you so.

The example I give now to friends and family is the old Willy Wonka scene where he sits back and disinterestedly says, "oh no, don't do that".

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ZD3_ppcPE[/ame]

 

[vt_shooter]

Nearly every human on this planet would rather make his own choices and decisions and err at times, than to follow someone else's advice.

 

[tlawler]

If it has to do with safety or well being, I will always speak up. If it's just an oversight that would be embarrassing to a person, I'll keep quiet.

 

[Smoke]

It depends on who I'm dealing with. If I know you and it's a safety issue I might politely say something. If I don't know you I'm not saying a word because I've never in my life open my mouth to offer any kind of advice or correction to a stranger and had it end well.

 

[Texas Star]

Some LEOs carry single action semi-auto pistols "cocked and locked".

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Not AT ALL like carrying a cocked DA revolver!

That cop was a danger to the public.

Actually, I once relieved a security guard who was dozing in a guard shack with his cocked Model 10 S&W at hand.

 

[Faulkner]

Some LEOs carry single action semi-auto pistols "cocked and locked".

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Just as a point of interest, I've been in law enforcement for 22 years and I've never seen a LEO carry a single action auto on duty.

 

[Badger1313]

Just as a point of interest, I've been in law enforcement for 22 years and I've never seen a LEO carry a single action auto on duty.

My bad, I meant double action. Carried a S&W 686 then a Glock 23 for most of my 38 years in LE. Never carried a single action, but others used versions of 1911s back in the 70s.

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[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Just as a point of interest, I've been in law enforcement for 22 years and I've never seen a LEO carry a single action auto on duty.

I certainly believe that, but my experience is different. Around 1987-88, I saw a uniformed LEO, probably a Santa Rosa County deputy sheriff, carrying a commercial 1911 cocked and locked. I think I even still have his card somewhere for some reason, from that one encounter. We were in a gun store in Gulf Breeze, and shot the **** a little, but I don't remember what was said.