Since then she's adapted pretty well to it. She doesn't really care anymore that it's in her apartment whenever I stay there, or always on me until we get to work (we work together at a pool hall) when it gets locked in her glove compartment...
Well, this past weekend her best friend was home alone with her son while her husband was out of town. Some lady came knocking on the door at like 10pm and my GF's friend was talking to her through the window by the door to see who it was without opening the door, the lady kept insisting she be let in and that she was sent there with a cleaning service (right..). The friend and kid stayed with us that night, and on the way home my girlfriend, a bit worried about it all night as she's been friends with this girl for years and years, and stressed from a RIDICULOUSLY crappy night we'd all had at work that night, said "I guess when we get a little time, you can take donna(the friend) and me to the shooting range with you, because she said if she's gonna be home alone a lot with tom's(husband) new job, she's gonna not want to worry about stuff like this and being totally defenseless."
SCORE, I thought.
So I talk to her tonight and she said that last night when she was walking her dog after work (get off work from the pool hall, get home at like 3-330am usually) she was on her way to the mailboxes in her apt. complex and she saw someone peek around the corner that she would've had to go around to get to the mailboxes, and then pull their head back quickly. She said she at that point practically ran back to the apartment and locked the door for the night. Said she'd really wished I'd been there, that she feels safer knowing I'm always armed everywhere we go.
SCORE, I thought again :)
I've never really liked how she walks her dog alone after work , even though she lives in a VERY VERY nice apartment complex. Even has a couple of state troopers that live on the other side of the complex, place is always very quiet, she's never heard of any crime at all.
The "it can happen to me" thing is starting to sink in finally with all my preaching (talking about news articles I read, etc) and then these two incidents.
First the shooting range... then her own gun... then the CHL class
