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I was getting a scope mounted at my local gun shop tonight.
I was in a crappy mood. It has been a bad day.
My rifle was sitting on the glass counter resting in it's open gun case along with a scope and some mounting hardware.
The tech who was servicing the gun was rummaging for some parts behind the counter and I was standing a few feet away looking at stuff for sale.
A fat 50ish looking guy picks up my rifle. A valuable rifle to me (maybe not to some of the deep pockets guys here) and he starts fiddling with the bolt and trigger.
I could not contain myself.
I said in a voice loud enough for the whole store to hear, "You're pretty nosey."
He asked, "Are you selling that?"
"No!"
"Well then are you buying it?"
I said (again in a loud voice), "You really ARE nosey aren't you?"
He schlepped away muttering something like 'this IS a gun shop - you know'.
I said nothing more but I thought, a gun shop is not the same as gun show.
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doesn't matter gun show or gun shop or wherever.
if you know something isn't yours, don't touch it.
you're a nicer person than i am.
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Might try the direct approach by informing the person that it's your rifle. Comments on his character might not be well received and will not convey the desired message.
In our local shops we're more than welcome to handle anything in the racks. Those behind the counter, we must make a request.
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Nope. Common courtesy whether it belongs to the shop or a customer, you ask before setting your peter-pullers on it.
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Had no business touching it at all.
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Had no business touching it at all. +1
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He was in the wrong. That said, had you been in a more patient mood, you could have fûcked with him for a while.
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Should have followed him out to his car and jumped in the drivers seat, adjust the mirrors, check the glove box, pop the hood and look over the engine. Then ask him if he is selling it!
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lol Roadrunner. that'd been funny
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Only thing worse is if he would have dropped it on the floor.
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I was getting a scope mounted at my local gun shop tonight.
I was in a crappy mood. It has been a bad day.
My rifle was sitting on the glass counter resting in it's open gun case along with a scope and some mounting hardware.
The tech who was servicing the gun was rummaging for some parts behind the counter and I was standing a few feet away looking at stuff for sale.
A fat 50ish looking guy picks up my rifle. A valuable rifle to me (maybe not to some of the deep pockets guys here) and he starts fiddling with the bolt and trigger.
I could not contain myself.
I said in a voice loud enough for the whole store to hear, "You're pretty nosey."
He asked, "Are you selling that?"
"No!"
"Well then are you buying it?"
I said (again in a loud voice), "You really ARE nosey aren't you?"
He schlepped away muttering something like 'this IS a gun shop - you know'.
I said nothing more but I thought, a gun shop is not the same as gun show. I'd describe your action as nothing short of cordial. Clark
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I was getting a scope mounted at my local gun shop tonight.
I was in a crappy mood. It has been a bad day.
My rifle was sitting on the glass counter resting in it's open gun case along with a scope and some mounting hardware.
The tech who was servicing the gun was rummaging for some parts behind the counter and I was standing a few feet away looking at stuff for sale.
A fat 50ish looking guy picks up my rifle. A valuable rifle to me (maybe not to some of the deep pockets guys here) and he starts fiddling with the bolt and trigger.
I could not contain myself.
I said in a voice loud enough for the whole store to hear, "You're pretty nosey."
He asked, "Are you selling that?"
"No!"
"Well then are you buying it?"
I said (again in a loud voice), "You really ARE nosey aren't you?"
He schlepped away muttering something like 'this IS a gun shop - you know'.
I said nothing more but I thought, a gun shop is not the same as gun show. I'd describe your action as nothing short of cordial. Clark A cordial might have mellowed him out...
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Some people feel they have the right to do whatever they want in a store. But still I would have told him that is my rifle and I am having a scope put on it. If that did not work then you could be a little more stern. Remember you can not fix stupid but you can slow it down with a baseball bat.
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For being in a bad mood, you sure let him off easy. If it would have been me, he would have smelled the pepperoni on my breath while I explained the proper etiquette concerning someone else's firearm.
That was something that was pounded into me many years ago.
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Had no business touching it at all. +2
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He was in the wrong. That said, had you been in a more patient mood, you could have fûcked with him for a while. Hey! Where did you get that umlot? Mitts off without asking. Ever!
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looks like a lower case ^ to me,
vs a real umlaut
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Just go start fondling the guy's wife without asking first.... 
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Nope. Not your wallet, hat, take-out order, or trash either. (Well, I'd probably get rid of the trash after I knew it was YOU that dropped it.)
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