Color me ‘surprised’…

So I’m sitting at a stop light in San Diego yesterday and a rattletrap old Toyota Land Cruiser pulls up beside me…

I look over and think somebody had way too much time on their hands, and were playing with those fake bullet holes; then I look again and they are REAL bullet holes!

Seven rounds down the left side of the truck, including one that went through the front door right about where the driver would be sitting, then arcing up and to the rear…

Now I’m wondering WTF, so I let him pull off first, sure enough, Mexican plate on the truck. Β Now I’m wondering if he’s the 2nd, 3rd or Xth owner… Don’t think he’s the first owner based on that bullet placement…

And I’m in a meeting when a very nice looking lady walks in and sits behind me with a rather interesting lanyard holding her badge…

I glance around and swear that looks like AR patterned rifle on that lanyard…

So she gets up and gives her presentation, turns out she’s a practicing nuclear physicist!!!

On the break, I ‘casually’ slide over and ask her about the lanyard, and yep it DOES have AR pattern rifles on it! Β She says, “Oh I got this when I was doing some work down at SOCOM.”

Of course I ask if she shoots, and she does!!!

And proceeds to bemoan the fact that her previous boss retired, since he was a shooter and they used to take a ‘variety’ of weapons on tests out west and shoot 3-4000 (thousand) rounds during down time on tests!!!

I asked how they got away with that, and she kinda laughed, saying something to the effect that nobody wanted to check ANY of their equipment, much less be around when they were testing! πŸ™‚

Sigh… must be nice! Β And she’s a really nice lady too!!!

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Color me ‘surprised’… — 17 Comments

  1. THIS is your opportunity to move to San Diego and hang out with all of us.

  2. What a great lady! Btw, you failed to mention whether there was coffee and/or lunch later… πŸ™‚

  3. I see everybody skipped straight down to the new lady acquaintance and totally ignored the bullet-riddled Land Cruiser.

    I would too. But I have to be different. It’s what I do.

  4. Did you notice the wetback crossing signs down San Diego way? Took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.

    Like to know what the story on the Land Rover is.

  5. Walter- LOL

    LL- Oh HELL no… NOT coming back here, and she’s not from here either…

    Rev- Nope πŸ™

    Opus- No such luck… πŸ™ Too much distance…

    Old AF- LOL, figures!!!

    Gerry- Yep, except different locations… dammit…

    PH- Yep used to seeing them, and I would too, but I wasn’t going to ask!

    WSF- Nah…

    Rick- Distance… sigh

  6. I was gonna suggest that you throw her at Murphy…then he posted before I did. I remember him talking about looking for a smart girl that likes to shoot and ain’t a liberal.

  7. A bullet riddled anything borders on old news there.

    I don’t see why a nice, good looking, smart, shooter lady would surprise you. Why even I heard tell of one once.
    What is with the distance “excuse”, you travel don’t you???

  8. Walter had me laughing out loud. And I hope you had the chance. And are you surprised at anything you see on a boarder state/town?

  9. Gfa- Yep! πŸ™‚

    Murph/Bob- She’s not close to him either… πŸ˜›

    Dammit/Opus- It was the environment… Just sayin, and no I guess I’m ‘not’ really surprised in a border area.

    CP- You and me both… πŸ˜€