Daily Archives: July 2, 2009

Quakers, Guns, and Me

My first day of Summer Tour 2009 was so exciting. I am currently at a truck stop at 2 am writing this story because I can’t go to sleep with it in my head. I mean, I almost died!

I found this amazing store in Pennsylvania today.
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Little girl: Mommy look! It’s a Native American and a white man in a boat together. I thought they killed each other.
Mom: No, honey. The white man just waited for the Native American to get him to safety before killing him
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White Man: Hey, what are you doing back there? Get to paddling, chief.

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Native American: The name’s Paddles For Asshole.
Native American to Little Girl: You know any good jokes?
Little Girl: Yes! What did Geronimo say as he fell off the cliff?…….meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Native American: Thanks, kid.

When I went inside, I was greeted by this man. I should have seen the forewarning of what was to come by his The Buck Stops Here apron.
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The entire store was full of carcasses.
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And merchandise like slutty camoflauge shirts….
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and more carcasses

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and camo marshmellow guns.

The store was so big, I worked up an appetite walking around it.
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Luckily they had a restaurant called Campfire

I chased dinner down with some dessert from the Fudge shop
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Later, I came across their furniture department
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where I rode a Rocking Dog.

They had a nice cozy fire for me to warm up by
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Then I watched some TV in the Playroom
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where they had stuffed, stuffed animals

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A long, satisfying day, indeed.

But I couldn’t sleep. I guess I was still a little cracked out from all that ritilin I had to take to drive.

I wandered around the store and started seeing all these advertisements for guns
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Then I came across this group of teenage quakers (or minonites???). The old man was telling them they needed to be careful. Their lives were in danger.
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I thought he was just trying to scare us

But as I wandered around the store, I started noticing something strange.
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Behind this cool hearing center was a man hiding.
What on earth?

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I noticed another one while checking out these cool shirts
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He was hiding behind such a tiny plant

I came across this camo baby chair for hanging babies in trees
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and then this informative video about suiting kids up so they can kill things from trees safely
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While I was disturbed by the video itself, I was proud of the kid. Job well done!

I tried asking this guy what the deal was, but he was no help.
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Outdoor Yuppie: Hey, you better get out of here…
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this place is nuts. I already got a finger bit off

Just then, these guys told me to watch out behind me. The animals were coming
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At first I was excited by this.
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Moose

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Bison

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Ginormous elephants!

I wasn’t prepared for this one though
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It freaked me out so bad, I ran to the elevator to hide
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but it was guarded by this lion

who was also accompanied by leopards and other terryfying animals I can’t remember the names of
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Just then, these lionesses came around the corner and chased after me.
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I ran for my life of course

but ran right into the arms of this guy
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Luckily, he got distracted by another Grizzly trying to steal his dead Moose
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The last thing I expected to run into was a Polar Bear though
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(I can’t tell you how much it disturbs me that this hunting store is possibly promoting the hunting of freak’n polar bears)

I found myself a place to hide until I could figure out what to do next
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Then I saw this boy training to kill
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I couldn’t let this stupid kid be braver than me
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so I went out to get revenge

I found some wheels and set off to kill the bastards
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I came across this Shooting Gallery to practice at
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And wouldn’t you know those Quakers had beat me to it. Great minds think alike
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After I got enough practice shooting at bottles and skunks
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I went to go get myself a real gun
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But they denied me at the Firearm Checkout.
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This is also when I noticed the sign informing me that I had been under video surveilance the whole time.

I can’t believe that store let me take all these pictures. A special thanks to all those nice people who took some of these photos for me.

FYI, The quakers had cell phones and cameras. This shocked me. I guess I’m just ignorant.