Gun guru ambush in the gunstore

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That is a good one. You can insert several other jobs as well, doctor, fireman, cop, EMT, ect. There are several jobs that people just can't wait to tell you about. It doesn't matter to them if you care or not, they just want you to know that they are somebody.
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I on the other hand, don't want random other people to know what I do for a living. As soon as I quitely say "I fix computers", they'll start pumping me for a fix to their all too run of the mill Windows woes.
 
lee n. field said:
I on the other hand, don't want random other people to know what I do for a living. As soon as I quitely say "I fix computers", they'll start pumping me for a fix to their all too run of the mill Windows woes.
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Same here. I learned a long time ago that I work with one man, I break bread with another. I keep my work and personal lives largely separate and I'm happy that way. As such, my job is something that pays for the bills (guns, ammo, range-time and sometimes food), but it is not what defines me.

"So, what do you do?"

"I eat, I have hobbies, I sleep from time to time."

"No, I mean, 'what do you DO?'"

"Um...I read alot. Sometimes I go to social gatherings where people pester me with annoying questions."

Pretty much end of intrusive conversation there :)
 
lee n. field said:
I on the other hand, don't want random other people to know what I do for a living. As soon as I quitely say "I fix computers"...
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Hey cool, you fix computers?! I have this problem that I've been meaning to get help with...


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"I on the other hand, don't want random other people to know what I do for a living. As soon as I quitely say "I fix computers", they'll start pumping me for a fix to their all too run of the mill Windows woes."

I bet there a few other jobs that people don't want others to know about because they always want something for free. Lawyers probably are sick of giving out free legal advice. Car mechanics are probably sick of fixing people's cars for free. Tax accountants probably get asked to do everybody's taxes for free that they know.

I don't understand this mentality. If it is a family member and they exchange something for your work once in a while, it is cool. It is not cool to just ask people to do work for free when they do it all week long for pay. One, they probably want to have the weekend for themself and two, not everybody loves their job so what makes you think they would do it for free? By exchange something I mean, say you are the car mechanic and your brother is the tax accountant, you can fix his car and he can do your taxes. That at least is fair. What I hate is when somebody just wants to take your time and work and doesn't have anything to give you. That is called charity. It is one thing to help out close family members, which I do all the time but there is a line when you can tell they are just using you.

I work on elevators and nobody has ever asked me to fix their elevator for free at least.:D They have asked me to biuld giant swingsets for their brats on my weekends for free. I don't have kids so a swingset is low on my list of priorities.
 
I was at a party with a friend who JUST became a doctor, hearing this a very attractive woman comes up, asks him about this health issue. He askes her what she does. "Oh, I'm a dancer at Shieks (strip club) It's going to be how I pay for law school." To which he replies "So can I see your boobs?!?!?"

I don't know why she was so shoked or pissed, it was exactly what she showed other people for money as her profession, and that is exactly what she asked him to just do, offer his professional skills for free.
 
Wisdom:

Never argue with an idiot. They'll just drag you down to their level, and beat you with expereince. - author unkown
 
A step further: relative/friend/etc. asks for advice, you give it as best you can, they proceed to gratuitously disregard it, then ask you to deal with the consequences of them not following your advice - and get huffy when you don't & explain why.
 
Try being a freelance writer, and mentioning that when you're asked what you do. Every single idiot in America has an idea for a BEST-SELLER that he keeps meaning to sit down and write one of these days. And for some unknown reason, he thinks I want to hear all about it...

I will admit, though, that the other response I get--pure admiration that I'm able to make a living at it--is very nice.
 
albanian said:
"It has been a long time since I listened to gun store workers. I have heard some of the stupidest things from these people."
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Radio Shacks and camera stores are a couple other places where the self-appointed experts and know-nothing sales people are found in abundance. I pissed off a Rat Shack clerk one day when an older man was looking for a portable radio that he could use to listen to ham operators. The salesman was trying to sell him a radio that didn't even receive the right frequency bands. I wasn't about to let the poor guy get screwed, so I stepped forward and corrected the salesman. The customer walked out empty handed, but at least he didn't buy a radio he couldn't use.
 
lee n. field said:
I on the other hand, don't want random other people to know what I do for a living. As soon as I quitely say "I fix computers", they'll start pumping me for a fix to their all too run of the mill Windows woes.
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Amen. There's a reason it says "flight instructor" over there on the left side: if you corner me and start asking me airplane questions, well, I always like talking about airplanes.

I will admit, though, it's kinda entertaining to go to Best Buy or such and let the salesweasels get all wound up about processor specs, and when they ask what I have, tell 'em "an R4400 at 200 MHz." Ties their brains in Gordian knots.
 
Possibly the BEST line I ever read was attributed to Audie Murphy*.

Back douring the Western craze of the '50's, quick-draw competition was popular. Somebody challenged Audie to a match. His answer? "Anytime, with live ammo." :evil:

*Besides being an actor, he was the most-decorated American serviceman of WWII.:what:
 
lee n. field said:
I on the other hand, don't want random other people to know what I do for a living. As soon as I quitely say "I fix computers", they'll start pumping me for a fix to their all too run of the mill Windows woes.
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Amen brother, I hate when people ask me what I went to school for, I say "Comp Science", they say "I have this problem". :banghead: :banghead:
Then on top of that I haven't found a job in the field so I still work for the local Budweiser distributor, and have to listen to free requests for beer all day long. If I got a nickle everytime I heard "just put that case in the white, red, green, blue car/truck/van" I could've retired by now. :cuss:

Anyway the quickest and easiest way I've found to deal with a self proclaimed know-it-all is to look them straight in the eye tell them "Your an Idiot!" smile at them and kinda nod your head forward as if to say "good bye!" I dealt with one the very same way while standing in the local grocery stores magazine section thumbing through SGN, as I was bored of stocking beer. While listening to his bs for I flipped through the pages an add about a .50 cal rifle came across, the idiot says "those are great you could get on top of the Hilton(largest building in our area) and see those boys in blue down there, BLAM!" :mad:
My immediate response was "YOUR AN IDIOT!!" I smiled, tilted my head forward, and he turned and walked away. :)
 
When I lived in New Orleans the off shore oil workers had a bumper sticker that read " Please don't tell Ma Ma I work in the oil fields......She thinks I am a piano player in a whore house":evil:

Kevin
 
No sweat

The weekend once in a while guru of the week is nothing compared to:
The Resident Expert in Everything Under the Sun at work. About his job. About my job. The different equipment he works on and how it is broken or installed by a monkey.
Sometimes just have to bite the bullet and let him know how much respect and credibility he is blowing away for everyone who witnesses this thing he is experiencing. Yes for the guru it is an experience.
 
Classic moments in Gun Guru Stupids...

-Having lunch with the then Col. State Police, a Major, and Lt.
The table next to us had one guy go on and on about "the guns the State boys uses" and all the ...the...hoopla, myths and you name it. Oh, he "said" Glocks.

Well this was news to the Col. and the rest of us, since the State had gone with Sigs.

-I am taking instructions from and shooting handguns and shotguns with Plaxco.
Guru comes up and informs Plaxco he is teaching me all wrong and He (guru) would be more than happy to take us both on as students.
[Aside, I shot against this Guru two weeks later, he shot a 68 and needless to say he did NOT get to shoot with me and others in the shoot-off].

-Smith Rep was in Gun Store, we were sipping coffee and shooting the bull...Guru comes up and starts "educating" the S&W Rep about the S&W line and keeps asking when the Smith Rep was gonna show up.

-You know sometimes you have to let a Guru , who also by admission is Diety's gift to women, just step into it up to his eyballs and wallow...

Recall I had 4 good looking Surgical Nurses I instructed and became quite good. They moved away and continued instructions, they came back to visit.
All 4 lesbians

So Stud Guru notices us and tripping over tongue, just gets in the way.
The gals could not resist, I mean this guy could not shoot, doing good to know how to unzip a gun case...

Ladies - You two guys shoot - whoever wins, gets their way with us...
Now some have called me a 'bootlegger' ...
All I know is there is nothing so pathetic as a guy with his tail between his legs watching who beat him like a drum walk off a field with 4 good-looking ladies.

Hey, why not? He had no idea were friends, or anything. He asked for it. We had a big laugh over it - could hardly enjoy dinner that night out to eat, kept laughing.

Guru never showed up at the range again either.

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I once heard a guru telling the guy behind the counter that he had a left handed 1911. And that it was made that way because JOHN COLT was left handed!! What do you say to that?
 
I run a lawnservice / snowplowing operation. It's not uncommon for family, or friends, or friends of friends, to ask me to cut their lawn, or plow their driveway, for free or at a discount.

I always say "Sure! Let me give you the phone numbers for my creditors. When you've convinced them to lower the payments on my truck, equipment, and insurance rates, I'll give you a discount."

On a side note, I sometimes get customers who think that since their profession is "above" mine, they know everything about professional lawnservice.

How do I know they've never done it? Because they don't know what they are talking about. They'll tell me how something should be done, and at what pace, or how my equipment works, as if I haven't been doing this for ten years. :rolleyes:
 
BTDT...

(Rant mode: ON) Hey, try being a teacher in a public school! Everybody went through school and was maligned in some way or other, so everybody's an expert on what's wrong with the school system in general, my school specifically, and how I'm mishandling their kid in particular.

(Everybody's been treated at a hospital, too, but most people don't think they're a medical expert. Go figure.)

Not only that, but the school invites all the parents in to tell us about it--It's called Parent-teacher conferences. All I can say is, good, conscientious parents, no problem. They are the rare ones, and getting rarer by the day. Loudmouth slobs whose kids misbehave all the time--And of course it's never their precious cherub's fault--but who expect the kid to get straight A's, and who also actually expect the kid to be learning something, of course with no effort on the kid's part, nor on theirs, combined with cheapskates who simply don't want to pay any property taxes for education so therefore teachers are lazy and greedy for wanting a professional-level wage (I could have made more money as a truck driver!) were one of the factors that drove me out of education after 32 years. Frankly, I would have traded a raise in pay for a raise in honest-to-God respect from the general public! (Rant mode: OFF)
 
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Yeah, I have one of those... the black one in fact. I wear it once in a while too but it doesn't work. The relative will usually just laugh at it then continue to ask for advice or help. Right now I have my brother stalking me, which isn't bad until he gives his 10 year old son my phone number and he'll make sure to call at least twice a day wondering what the status on his computer is.

I deal with a lot of know-it-alls working in the corporate IT world, and I've just learned to either stare blankly at them until they walk away or just pretend I'm too pre-occupied with something to pay attention to them. That last part is not too difficult to pull off usually, since it is more often than not, the truth.
 
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