So I just got home from work about 10 minutes ago and figured I would share my "near death experience" that I had while leaving work!
I work out at a manufacturing shop about 4 miles from where I currently live, it is out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest. I am always the last person there and it is my job to lock up and set the alarm before I head home for the night. About 3 weeks back when I was working there someone tried to break in the front office and the alarm ended up going off and the police were called and blah blah blah. Since then I have been paying more attention when I leave work to see if any cars are in the parking lot or hanging around on the street.
Tonight I looked around and didn't see any cars or people so I left the building and turned around to lock up the door and set the alarm. As I turned around to lock the door I put my hand in my pocket to get my keys when I heard a noise behind me. Figuring it was nothing I kept going, I got the door locked then went to punch in the security code. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks, I could hear sticks cracking and footsteps coming up behind me, total murder movie I know! At this point my mind was going a mile and minute and I figured I was going to get jumped and they would go into the shop and take thousands of dollars worth of power tools or I would end up being shot or something. At this point I was freaking out and I punched in the wrong code on the door intentionally so that the alarm would start to go off (it automatically calls the police). As soon as I finished punching in the code I went to reach for the small of my back where I ALWAYS have my ESEE 4 or BK2. Well, today I was late for work and so I just left home real quick and I FORGOT it on my desk! I quickly moved my hand up to my front pocket where I normally have my ZT350 or another large folder, well same story there! Then I remembered today I had put on a necker that I had recently got, a small Kiridashi I had gotten here on the forums. By this point I thought my heart was going to explode out of my chest, I unzipped my jacket and pulled out my little knife. I figured I was screwed already since all I had was this little tiny 1" blade and I could already tell the footsteps were only a couple of feet behind me. I turned around expecting the worst, but instead almost started laughing.
Standing about 6 feet away from me were two deer that had been passing from the stream that runs behind the shop over to a field area that was just across the street. They looked WAY more scared than I was, that's for sure. We all had a little group stare down before they took off down the parking lot and off into some more trees. I put my little knife away and typed in the right code so the alarm wouldn't go off. After that I ran for my car and got the hell out of dodge. This how incident only took maybe 15 seconds, but oh boy did it feel like 15 minutes.
J.Mason Kiridashi
I work out at a manufacturing shop about 4 miles from where I currently live, it is out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest. I am always the last person there and it is my job to lock up and set the alarm before I head home for the night. About 3 weeks back when I was working there someone tried to break in the front office and the alarm ended up going off and the police were called and blah blah blah. Since then I have been paying more attention when I leave work to see if any cars are in the parking lot or hanging around on the street.
Tonight I looked around and didn't see any cars or people so I left the building and turned around to lock up the door and set the alarm. As I turned around to lock the door I put my hand in my pocket to get my keys when I heard a noise behind me. Figuring it was nothing I kept going, I got the door locked then went to punch in the security code. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks, I could hear sticks cracking and footsteps coming up behind me, total murder movie I know! At this point my mind was going a mile and minute and I figured I was going to get jumped and they would go into the shop and take thousands of dollars worth of power tools or I would end up being shot or something. At this point I was freaking out and I punched in the wrong code on the door intentionally so that the alarm would start to go off (it automatically calls the police). As soon as I finished punching in the code I went to reach for the small of my back where I ALWAYS have my ESEE 4 or BK2. Well, today I was late for work and so I just left home real quick and I FORGOT it on my desk! I quickly moved my hand up to my front pocket where I normally have my ZT350 or another large folder, well same story there! Then I remembered today I had put on a necker that I had recently got, a small Kiridashi I had gotten here on the forums. By this point I thought my heart was going to explode out of my chest, I unzipped my jacket and pulled out my little knife. I figured I was screwed already since all I had was this little tiny 1" blade and I could already tell the footsteps were only a couple of feet behind me. I turned around expecting the worst, but instead almost started laughing.
Standing about 6 feet away from me were two deer that had been passing from the stream that runs behind the shop over to a field area that was just across the street. They looked WAY more scared than I was, that's for sure. We all had a little group stare down before they took off down the parking lot and off into some more trees. I put my little knife away and typed in the right code so the alarm wouldn't go off. After that I ran for my car and got the hell out of dodge. This how incident only took maybe 15 seconds, but oh boy did it feel like 15 minutes.
J.Mason Kiridashi
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