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Thank you Maam. Hope she heard them.

Just back in town after a long drive. Answers & comments in the best order I can give them.
Kauboy the young lady was evidently not armed. Very liberal & liking the benefits that Kommiefornia offers. In discussion before the incident she told me she was an Islander from Guam. Been in Kfornia & just moved to Texas. I asked how she liked Texas & the reply was it was easier to get a job & could actually make more money because she could only get 6 hrs a day for 4 days a week in KF. She missed the free medicine & hospitals though. (I can hijack my own thread folks ). When she said, "In Kf you don't have to pay for meds." I said, maam you are wrong. That medicine has to be paid for & I am the one paying for it. She shrugged and said oH well. For sure she was not armed w/ out asking.

Houston1944 - yes sir, pay attention to surroundings was the main point & theme.

Grannyglock - I have been training to let the cell phone be the first reach for anything that there is some fore warning. I have been training Mom, Wife, & Daughter to "draw" you cell phone early. That is not an illegal threat of force & it does not take Perry Mason to figure out who the call will be made to. If first response of "No you are not my husband & if you need fill in the blank w/ anything he says he wants then go ask a man not a woman." If that does not get him to go away get the cell out. If he gets close use it then go to something louder if necessary.

Yes sir, & this is not a "what if I had not been there" but a what if nobody had been there. There were seveal people in the store that called & warned her. Probably workers headed out for the job. One person alone in a place like that is a criminals delight.

Am in Lubbock visiting the Wife's family. I am the country boy that is in bed while every one else spends most of the night up visiting. Then morning comes & no one wants to get up so I go out for some coffee & watch the sun come up. This morning, 5:00 I stopped at a 7-11 close by the house. For you in Lubbock, 50th & Ave U. Drinking the coffee & visiting w/ the young lady that was the only employeed there. (Man I would not let my wife or daughter do that even while armed. Different thread though)
Telephone rings & she answers it. Listens a while & say OK I will watch. Hangs up & says that it was their other store on Ave Q. Watch for a heavy set young guy w/ a hooded heavy sweat shirt. Spent a lot of time in the store looking & not buying anything. Several other folks in the store at the time.
Sure enough it is about 5 minutes until he arrives & gets out. I get out my cell & punch in 911, do not hit the dial button, & lay it on the ice cream counter. I am to where I can see his car, the door & all but the farthest corner of the store, & any approach to the register. Speak to him as he comes in, "morning young man, is it really that cold out there this morning?" No reply. Makes a short round around a counter & out the door.
All you new guys & gals at carry. It is good for you to practice with your gun. Learn to let the cell be your first reach if you have any fore warning. As I set up, you can push the dial button & talking loud the dispatcher can hear all that is said. I showed the girl what I had done & why. Then showed her how to slightly rearrange her counter for her cell to be unseen by the register. She thanked me & shortly a Lubbock PD came in. She told him & he took a discription from both of us. Car discription? I don't know makes & models by sight so only red compact ralatively new.
No incident but very well an averted incident because of awareness.
Remember, ladies & gentlemen, especially ladies, you will very seldom know what did not happen.