I was pestering a buddy who worked the counter in a local gun store and in walked a sharply dressed man.
"I need a gun that's big enough for a bear"
Do you have something in mind?
"I'm thinkin a .45, my buddy is a cop in Chicago and he recommends a .45"
Do you have a preference in .45s?
"I don't know, I just moved here and we had this friggin bear on the porch last night"
I couldn't keep quiet, "You're from Chicago, you're supposed to like "Da Bears".
He left with no pistol but did have the DOW phone number!

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen