I remain surprised by BT�s anonymity at the Alpha gun shops in central VT back in the middle to late 1990s, but it's good to be surprised once in a while.
It's also good to relinquish stupid assumptions.
I'm not well known, by face, in any of the gun shops that I visit fairly regularly. Guess I'm just too obscure, huh? Haven't been doing this long enough? Don't publish enough in "the right places?"
One reason is, of course, that with my own FFL, I seldom buy anything, across a counter, that requires a bunch of paper-work. And apparently, the name on my checks is less important than the numbers.
When friends with me introduce me to gun-shop clerks, my name means nothing to most of 'em, but some � a few � say that they've read some of my stuff. So � does this indicate that I'm a nobody, or that gun-shop clerks don't read enough?
Rhetorical questions all � I don't really give a hoot one way or the other.
Recognition by gun-shop clerks is no kind of meaningful measure of a writer unless he has made himself locally infamous.
