Yesterday, as I was upstairs, I hear an adult voice. Knowing only my 10 yr old son was home, it took me a second to realize something was out of place. I picked up the M&P 40c, locked, loaded and put it in the small of my back. I get to the top of the stairs, I see my son. He tells me, "papa, there's a man in the kitchen". I ask him, "what man", he says, "I don't know". I immediately mentally cycled thru my next actions. I walked slowly walk downstairs, waved to my son to come up towards me. I turn the corner, only exposing half my body, with my hand on the weapon in the small of my back.
I see an old man, in golf clothes. He looked to be around 75 years old. He looked surprise, and tells me he's the electrician and came to check out the double oven my wife had called about and since he was in the neighborhood, he figured he look at it to see if he needed to bring help next week. Basically, he was not expected to be here at this point in time. My son had let him in thru the garage door. While talking to the man, I give my son a look of " oh man, do you have a long talk about security coming to you" look.
After the man leaves, I hold a rhetorical questioning session with my son covering all the things he did wrong and all the things that could have gone wrong. I told him he's lucky it was an innocent man trying to get ahead on his work and nothing more. I told him, he could have been in a far worse situation and it could all have gone bad so fast before I could even get downstairs or even hear anything. NEVER LET ANYONE IN unless I know about it first. The electrician broke some standard adult protocols by coming in from the word of a 10 yr old and not knowing if an adult was around. I told him the man was lucky not to have had a weapon pointed at his face.
My mental after actions review of the situation showed me that under real word circumstances, though the threat never materialized, that I still do what I did when I used to turn corners with a weapon for a living. But this time, as life and conditions had changed and rules of engagement not so obvious, I was more reserved and restrained in exposing the weapon. I think I did so cause my spidey senses didn't go to full tingling. I was somewhat happy to find that my mind and thoughts were still deliberate, that my movement and actions went right back to years of training. I'm also glad that civilian life gave me a little restraint not to turn the corner with the weapon drawn. Oh, and I found that when confronted with a need to make a quick choice, I grabbed the M&P 40c vs the Sig P220. But I think I did so cause I felt I wanted it concealed so I could back down the situation in case the threat subsided with no action needed. I'm glad I did that. I happy I didn't give a old man a heart attack. In the end it was a good real world mental test with no actual threat.
I see an old man, in golf clothes. He looked to be around 75 years old. He looked surprise, and tells me he's the electrician and came to check out the double oven my wife had called about and since he was in the neighborhood, he figured he look at it to see if he needed to bring help next week. Basically, he was not expected to be here at this point in time. My son had let him in thru the garage door. While talking to the man, I give my son a look of " oh man, do you have a long talk about security coming to you" look.
After the man leaves, I hold a rhetorical questioning session with my son covering all the things he did wrong and all the things that could have gone wrong. I told him he's lucky it was an innocent man trying to get ahead on his work and nothing more. I told him, he could have been in a far worse situation and it could all have gone bad so fast before I could even get downstairs or even hear anything. NEVER LET ANYONE IN unless I know about it first. The electrician broke some standard adult protocols by coming in from the word of a 10 yr old and not knowing if an adult was around. I told him the man was lucky not to have had a weapon pointed at his face.
My mental after actions review of the situation showed me that under real word circumstances, though the threat never materialized, that I still do what I did when I used to turn corners with a weapon for a living. But this time, as life and conditions had changed and rules of engagement not so obvious, I was more reserved and restrained in exposing the weapon. I think I did so cause my spidey senses didn't go to full tingling. I was somewhat happy to find that my mind and thoughts were still deliberate, that my movement and actions went right back to years of training. I'm also glad that civilian life gave me a little restraint not to turn the corner with the weapon drawn. Oh, and I found that when confronted with a need to make a quick choice, I grabbed the M&P 40c vs the Sig P220. But I think I did so cause I felt I wanted it concealed so I could back down the situation in case the threat subsided with no action needed. I'm glad I did that. I happy I didn't give a old man a heart attack. In the end it was a good real world mental test with no actual threat.
