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• I almost died today. Well not really, but here's a story anyways:
• I was driving through downtown and I drove by this pawn shop and I was like "oh hey, i've never been there. Maybe there's some cool stuff inside or something." So I go inside. I say "hey" to the guys at the counter, they didn't say anything back one of them might've nodded at me but it wasn't the warmest greeting. Anyways, the place was SUPER cluttered and besides a lot of DVDs and some speakers it didn't really look like they had much for sale... some of the stuff was clearly personal items belonging to the owners, there was no division between merchandise and non-merch... so I go to the back and there were two more doorways back there. I want to note that BOTH OF THE DOORS WERE WIDE OPEN. Ok. So anyways one of the rooms had a bunch of tools and it looked like maybe a room that I wasn't supposed to go in. So I go into the other room. There was a TV, piles and piles of DVDs, some Native American weapons/etc hanging on the wall, and a bunch of shelves with like stacks of samurai swords and guitar shit. More of what you would expect to see at a pawn shop. So I'm looking through the stuff and one of the owners comes up behind me and he's all like "you can't be in here" and "get the fuck out, NOW" (he repeated this many times) and "I better never see you in here again" and he even said something like "if the door is closed you don't go in there" (door was open, buddy)... so I'm just trying to keep calm and walk out and he's like "you better move faster!" and the other owner was like "you're lucky you didn't get shot" and "you were trespassing on private property" and all this shit. And then I drove away and that's it. Now I'm wondering if they were hiding something really illegal back there, or if they're just terrible people?
• Lessons learned:
• -Step lightly in pawn shops
• -Stick to garage sales