psychological observation about OC in a crowded restaurant
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 1:59 pm
Recently I was returning from Florida when we stopped at a popular buffet in Georgia. We were almost finished when a clean cut guy in his late twenties to early thirties was coming out of the line and getting ready to sit at a table with a couple of other people that were with him. He was dressed conservatively in slacks and a dress shirt and tie. Nothing really unusual about his appearance, other than he also had a full size semi auto pistol on his right hip. What was interesting was the response of some in the crowd. Some people were looking without trying to stare, a few just stared. You would've thought he had a third eye or something, the way some people acted. A woman in the table next us was staring so hard it looked like her eyes were bulging slightly, doing a good Marty Feldman impersonation. He was at one of the buffet sections, plate in hand, seemingly having a pleasant conversation with one of the people he came in with, and getting some food items when we left. The responses of some of the people were both sad and comical at the same time, because there 3 handguns (concealed) at just our table alone, and I'm pretty sure with over a hundred people there we weren't the only ones. I guess for some people ignorance really is bliss.