You appear to have pretty thin skin.
Posted on 10/27/2025 4:31:19 PM PDT by know.your.why
Happened at the Bridge Street Towne Center Mall - Huntsville, Alabama. I had parked in the above ground parking garage. I was walking back towards my car (2020 Kia Optima) about 30 minutes after parking. Two young men standing outside of the garage. One was looking at his cell phone and then he addressed me: "Hi, Sir. Are you just getting off work?" I looked at him suspiciously and just said "no". When I got to my car, there was a junk car (missing on one cylinder) parked next to my drivers side and he started up his engine and drove off.
I know now that (highly suspect) the one kid asked me about getting off work to find if I'd be back there at the same time on a different day. And yes, they were all teenage-ish "Amish" males. I'm certain that the three were working as a team. Not only that, there were many suspicious looking Amish (male and female) out and about that mall that night. This alone was strange because most of the businesses close at 11pm. It was about 10:30 when I went back to my car. I bet that they all knew each other and someone spotted my Kia and made a cell call to the group that everyone knows as the "car-theft-crew".
Incidentally, these Amish kids that were hanging out as two or three here and there were all wearing matching pajama-looking pants. Must be a 'thing' for these kids these days.
I'm now looking at anti theft devices for my Kia. I'm also getting a police detective involved.
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Oh.
You appear to have pretty thin skin.
Worked in Atlanta for almost a year and lots of business in Knoxville and Chattanooga.
I just can’t picture the miscreants he encountered as being suave southern gentlemen.
I do have a very low tolerance for a$$holes. Nothing personal. I can’t stand any middle aged teenagers. You just happen to be only one. You are so not alone so please dont feel like you are. There are many just like you.
Good situational awareness and glad you’re ok. One question, what does “missing on one cylinder” mean?
:)
I live near a small town where you don't have to lock your car. Haven't locked my house in years.
Lots of Amish/Mennonites here, the real ones who speak German and dress in black with horses and carts. Best people on the planet.
We have almost no crime in this town. Someone up the holler in town bought a Kia. Within a week, it was stolen. It was found in a campground in town when the kids abandoned it because they didn’t know how to drive but they did know how to use the internet. It turned out to be some kids in a trailer park goofing around. The cops told their moms “Take out life insurance on them because they have a death wish”.
Good grief! In the South we carry more decisive stuff than bear spray. We carry various forms of lead spray.
Don't bother with anything less than 9mm. My cute little wife packs a Kimber Compact Carry II .45 ACP with a Crimson Trace laser spotter. She practices too.
OK, you win with the insult game. Hope you feel good about yourself.
Thanks for not calling me a “fucking dickhead” again. That really crushed me.
You started it man
Every Southern child of any upbringing whatsoever hears adults called "sir" and "ma'am" by other children and adults of every station in life as soon as they go out in public. It's part of the culture, even if their own parents didn't teach or expect it. Much of the US military comes from the South or serves in the South, and those honorifics are expected of them. My family was working class, and it was required in our house of both boys and girls.
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