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Setting: Parking Lot of a movie theater, after afternoon showing.
Persons: Grandma, Mom, daughter.
Grandma just had cataract surgery, and still has the patch over weak side eye.
Movie lets out, and grandma and daughter are going to stay together while mom gets the car to pick them up at the front of theatre.
Grandma, and mom both CCW; granddaughter is almost 7 years old.
There is no dad, mom is a widow.
Pretty crowded in the lobby, so they chose to get out of the crowd and be visible to mom pulling up, and allow them to see better all around.
Two sets of doors, as many theartres have, allowing some distance between exterior and interior sets of doors, about eight feet.
One code word used is referring to "dad" if there is an uneasy feeling or trouble shows.
Grandma is limited with one eye and patch, she knows this, and granddaughter has been raised to pay attention. She also knows the more folks paying attention the better trouble can be spotted.
Grandma does not carry a purse often, and when she does, it is a small one easy to keep on person, and has a beefed up strap.
She was carrying a purse.
Grandma facing outside and granddaughter facing inside - angled to where they both see both directions, and each others backs.
Early lessons about facing another to watch backs, and not side by side.
Granddaughter said her gut said so, and she saw what her gut was saying.
Some punks eying grandma with a eye patch.
NO! I want to call dad!
She went into "misbehaving kid tossing a tantrum, yelling at Grandma" and Everybody turned to see this commotion...
Punks stop in their tracks with all these eyes and left back down to where they had entered and out they went down the outside of theatre.
Not for sure, it is thought they hopped into a car with engine running and driver waiting.
It would fit with what does occur here.
I mean this kid reached for grandma's cells phone and ...
Grandma had to physically turn to see that way, with a patch over her eye and everything.
Oh quite a folks made negative comments about that kid....
They exited , got into the car and all safe.
Mindset , tactics equipment make up the survival triad in that order.
Six, not quite seven years old, young lady remember. She cannot carry a gun, she cannot even take one her knives to school.
She , with permission carried her knew really nice knife grandma got her for the holdidays - Case Peanut, MOP with the scissors.
She had one of her disposable "goopy girl pens" she calls then in her pocket and had snagged a couple of really thin brocures and rolled them up.
She has been and continues to be parented and mentored about staying safe.
Mom, she walked out with other ladies, some couples, safety in numbers.
Mom and grandma and the young lady got back and had a sit down.
The kid , mom, grandma - all did the right things and made it home safe.
Young lady had mindset, tactic and the "equipment" was reaching for the cell phone grandma had an tossing a tantrum and causing a scene.
She shared, she would have tossed a drink ( meaning grabbing someone's close) grabbing the little metal rack where a brochure display was and if worse come to worse using her "goopy girl ink pen", or just doing the best she could with the thin rolled up "magazine" and going for "where it hurts".
Parent and Mentor kids - they in turn will Mentor you as well.
Steve
Persons: Grandma, Mom, daughter.
Grandma just had cataract surgery, and still has the patch over weak side eye.
Movie lets out, and grandma and daughter are going to stay together while mom gets the car to pick them up at the front of theatre.
Grandma, and mom both CCW; granddaughter is almost 7 years old.
There is no dad, mom is a widow.
Pretty crowded in the lobby, so they chose to get out of the crowd and be visible to mom pulling up, and allow them to see better all around.
Two sets of doors, as many theartres have, allowing some distance between exterior and interior sets of doors, about eight feet.
One code word used is referring to "dad" if there is an uneasy feeling or trouble shows.
Grandma is limited with one eye and patch, she knows this, and granddaughter has been raised to pay attention. She also knows the more folks paying attention the better trouble can be spotted.
Grandma does not carry a purse often, and when she does, it is a small one easy to keep on person, and has a beefed up strap.
She was carrying a purse.
Grandma facing outside and granddaughter facing inside - angled to where they both see both directions, and each others backs.
Early lessons about facing another to watch backs, and not side by side.
Granddaughter said her gut said so, and she saw what her gut was saying.
Some punks eying grandma with a eye patch.
NO! I want to call dad!
She went into "misbehaving kid tossing a tantrum, yelling at Grandma" and Everybody turned to see this commotion...
Punks stop in their tracks with all these eyes and left back down to where they had entered and out they went down the outside of theatre.
Not for sure, it is thought they hopped into a car with engine running and driver waiting.
It would fit with what does occur here.
I mean this kid reached for grandma's cells phone and ...
Grandma had to physically turn to see that way, with a patch over her eye and everything.
Oh quite a folks made negative comments about that kid....
They exited , got into the car and all safe.
Mindset , tactics equipment make up the survival triad in that order.
Six, not quite seven years old, young lady remember. She cannot carry a gun, she cannot even take one her knives to school.
She , with permission carried her knew really nice knife grandma got her for the holdidays - Case Peanut, MOP with the scissors.
She had one of her disposable "goopy girl pens" she calls then in her pocket and had snagged a couple of really thin brocures and rolled them up.
She has been and continues to be parented and mentored about staying safe.
Mom, she walked out with other ladies, some couples, safety in numbers.
Mom and grandma and the young lady got back and had a sit down.
The kid , mom, grandma - all did the right things and made it home safe.
Young lady had mindset, tactic and the "equipment" was reaching for the cell phone grandma had an tossing a tantrum and causing a scene.
She shared, she would have tossed a drink ( meaning grabbing someone's close) grabbing the little metal rack where a brochure display was and if worse come to worse using her "goopy girl ink pen", or just doing the best she could with the thin rolled up "magazine" and going for "where it hurts".
Parent and Mentor kids - they in turn will Mentor you as well.
Steve
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