RIP Sears

I fully do admit to spending more time just wandering around and looking at BP than I do making purchases.

 

Clock must not be ticking too fast because Academy just opened a new store in my locale.

 

Bass Pro Shop opened in Irvine maybe a year ago. Only the second in SoCal, the other is in Rancho Cucamonga. Next closest is Vegas.
Bass Pro-Irvine underwent about a three-year remodel process when, oddly enough, it took over a shuttered Walmart that was deemed "under performing." It is in a shopping strip that has Costco, PGA Superstore, Bassett furniture, Living Spaces, 3 fast food places (Wendy's, Carl's, Del Taco) a bank and a Shell station that has a Subway in it. The surrounding area is all business park, nothing residential nearby.
I shop and get gas at Costco. Used to hit the Walmart for anything I needed that Costco didn't have. Have only been in a Bass Pro Shop once, with a friend in Mesa, Ariz., who needed ammo. I was terrified just walking in, but I didn't really get past the lobby/waiting area.

 

Terrified? Why?

 

Guns, ammo, fish hooks, spear guns, etc. Things I know nothing about and don't wish to find out.

 

How the heck could you be “terrified” walking into a store with inanimate objects on a shelf or behind a counter?

 

Guns scare me. I didn't even like going to the shooting gallery at Disneyland.

 

Can’t believe this wasn’t the end of Kmart:

 

I've never been scared walking into a Bass Pro.
I've been terrified coming out knowing my wife is going to ask "how much did that cost?"

 

I understand what you’re saying. But growing up in Chicagoland, I was always more concerned about the stolen/confiscated guns being sold out of car trunks by criminals/cops than I was worried about the guns sold at Kmart.

 

OK, I witnessed one incident. We had a staff party at a guy's condo. Maybe a dozen people, including the HR director (which is incidental to this story, except that she was supposed to be a responsible person). The guy brought out his shotgun to show around. He handed it to the HR woman. She obviously didn't know anything about it, was holding it awkward -- BOOM!!!!
The blast of buckshot goes through the wall to the next unit. The owner turns white and races next door, I was behind him. The couple next door are sitting calmly on their couch and they pointed to the direction the buckshot went. No harm done, except a hole in the wall.

Also, I was particularly shaken by the death of Chicago guitar player Terry Kath.

 

Yeah, that was such a senseless, tragic loss.