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Stopped by the Coastal Farms to pick up some ammo. Both the gun counter workers are helping people with their form 4473. One is almost done, and seems to have done this before. The other, a 20 something, is having his first experience purchasing a gun. He's also the "talk loudly about every thought running through your head" type, so with nothing to do but wait I get to watch the show. A few of the questions he's asking the girl behind the counter caught my attention ...
"What's this part mean, am I the actual buyer? I'm not trying to sell it or anything."
"Hey, here where it says Have you ever been convicted of a felony, I was a juvie at the time so that doesn't count, right?"
"Oh, this part, weed's legal in Oregon so it's cool."
He finally gets the form filled out on the little iPad, and before he signs it the girl looks at him and asks "Is everything on here correct, or do you want to make any changes?" "Nah, it's cool"
"Are you sure you want to submit this form as it is?" "Yea"
She goes into the back room, comes back about 2 minutes latter with the iPad. "I need you to make some corrections. Please review the entire form, make any necessary corrections, and correct the highlighted portions. For instance, you got your date of birth wrong."
He makes the corrections, and before he can sign it, she again stops him and asks "Are you sure you want to submit this form?" Of course, he signed it anyway. Dude was oblivious to how much she was trying to help him out.
Again, she returns from the back room, this time with a printed copy of his form and says "I need you to review these answers and tell me if there are any changes or corrections you want to make?" He asks "Is something wrong with it?" The girl takes 1 step back, raises her hands in a surrender motion and says "I'm not allowed to say". At this point I'm thinking I don't want to be here when the cops show up so in a completely normal voice and loud enough that the dude can hear me I say "Excuse me Miss, can you get me a couple of boxes of ammo, or do you need to keep eyes on this guy?" She literally says "No, I need to keep eyes on him." Dude is still not picking up any of the hints.
By then the other girl can help me, so grab my ammo and hightail it out of there. Almost felt sorry for the kid.
"What's this part mean, am I the actual buyer? I'm not trying to sell it or anything."
"Hey, here where it says Have you ever been convicted of a felony, I was a juvie at the time so that doesn't count, right?"
"Oh, this part, weed's legal in Oregon so it's cool."
He finally gets the form filled out on the little iPad, and before he signs it the girl looks at him and asks "Is everything on here correct, or do you want to make any changes?" "Nah, it's cool"
"Are you sure you want to submit this form as it is?" "Yea"
She goes into the back room, comes back about 2 minutes latter with the iPad. "I need you to make some corrections. Please review the entire form, make any necessary corrections, and correct the highlighted portions. For instance, you got your date of birth wrong."
He makes the corrections, and before he can sign it, she again stops him and asks "Are you sure you want to submit this form?" Of course, he signed it anyway. Dude was oblivious to how much she was trying to help him out.
Again, she returns from the back room, this time with a printed copy of his form and says "I need you to review these answers and tell me if there are any changes or corrections you want to make?" He asks "Is something wrong with it?" The girl takes 1 step back, raises her hands in a surrender motion and says "I'm not allowed to say". At this point I'm thinking I don't want to be here when the cops show up so in a completely normal voice and loud enough that the dude can hear me I say "Excuse me Miss, can you get me a couple of boxes of ammo, or do you need to keep eyes on this guy?" She literally says "No, I need to keep eyes on him." Dude is still not picking up any of the hints.
By then the other girl can help me, so grab my ammo and hightail it out of there. Almost felt sorry for the kid.
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