This was actually the closest to an incident I've had since I started carrying, and I think I handled it well.
About an hour ago me and my fiancee were in a take out Chinese restaurant waiting for our food to be ready. I sat facing the door and noticed a man that looked...off...coming towards the place, and decided to stand up. Turns out he was supposedly a recently released convict from NY trying to get to a city about a 20minute ride away. Claimed the bus dropped him off here, and his metro card wasn't good in CT. Kept going on and on, eventually asked for bus fare.
The whole time he was shaking uncontrollably, claiming he was just nervous, etc. I kept him a bit away, watched his hands the whole time, and acted sympathetic, and ended up apologizing and saying that we didn't have any cash. He bought it, and moved on to try other people. The owner of the restaurant then told us this was his third day in telling the same sob story. Ended up calling the police, giving as exact of a description of him as possible, and went home when our food was done.
Didn't have to make a gesture towards my gun, or any other weapon, just acted along with him. So, given that, how'd I do?
About an hour ago me and my fiancee were in a take out Chinese restaurant waiting for our food to be ready. I sat facing the door and noticed a man that looked...off...coming towards the place, and decided to stand up. Turns out he was supposedly a recently released convict from NY trying to get to a city about a 20minute ride away. Claimed the bus dropped him off here, and his metro card wasn't good in CT. Kept going on and on, eventually asked for bus fare.
The whole time he was shaking uncontrollably, claiming he was just nervous, etc. I kept him a bit away, watched his hands the whole time, and acted sympathetic, and ended up apologizing and saying that we didn't have any cash. He bought it, and moved on to try other people. The owner of the restaurant then told us this was his third day in telling the same sob story. Ended up calling the police, giving as exact of a description of him as possible, and went home when our food was done.
Didn't have to make a gesture towards my gun, or any other weapon, just acted along with him. So, given that, how'd I do?