Arcey, you're probably right. I only mention it 'cause awhile back I needed somethin' to fund my cigarette, bourbon, and .45 colt cartridge habit and I took a part-time at a corner store and the wanna be's were buyin' 'em. My town ain't got but 1400 people in it and they wouldn't know a real gangbanger if he walked up and slapped 'em. They'd be cleanin' their britches. 'bout a year ago back a wanna be broke into a 82 year old ladies house here in town and she shot him in the leg with a beretta .25, then put him on the sofa 'til the law showed up. The no good sued her and we here in the neighborhood threw her a party and took up enough to cover her legal expenses. Man, that old lady could shoot AND cook!
BP, what is it that Ron White said? "Turns out they were arresting every person driving on that particular sidewalk, and that's profiling, and profiling is WRONG!
Leo, sounds like you're my kind of fella. My dad had a pipe stand on the coffee table when I was a kid but I never saw him light one. He smoked Kool non-filters and then switched to Salems and I used to steal 'em from him. I never will forget the day I turned 16 he offered me a cigarette and I thought I was a MAN. Turns out he knew all along I was smokin' and takin' his and he told me I could buy my own from then on. I never got it until I became a dad and had the same problem for a while.