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The title of your post had me waiting for the part...

While out to dinner with 8 friends, we were all condition yellow and noticed some strange activity in the restaurant. I was positioned to watch the door and my wife was situated to where she had a nice vantage point for the rest of the establishment...etc etc...

It is almost like I did that on purpose.....

That was the weird part. We did kind pretty much find out what everyone's perferred carry weapon was but....etiquette must have intervened because it was like everyone knew not to ask if someone was carying right then and there.

Not so weird, I guess, when you think about it.

My wife and I took eight friends to dinner the other night before then going on to a local fundraising event. Of course, we knew all of the couples well and some of them knew each other, but not all. The point being that we purposely selected a set of friends that, while they had things in common*, did not necessarily know each other at all...or at least well.

I can't remember what initiated the common realization but get this: by the end of the evening we had discovered that out of the eight people at the table:

2 women with current plastic (Engineer, aged 49; Teacher, aged 45)
1 man w/ current plastic (ISP Provider Business Owner, aged 46)
2 men w/ paperwork already turned in (Landscape Business owner/rental property owner, aged 46; Me, aged 48)
1 woman seriously considering the course but not sure she would carry (my wife, Realtor, aged 45)

The remaining two were a couple that were not at all put off by the fact that everyone else at the table was licensed or soon would be.

Welcome to Texas.


* Church, school, non-shooting hobbies, etc., i.e. NOT the local gun club.