JackF

We used to have a Starbucks coffee maker because it was the only one I could find that got the water hot enough. The pump went out a few months ago and I started using a press until I could get another. I really like the press and will probably not go back to another type.

I see no reason to carry a weapon. If I got a job in a part of town I didn't want to work - I wouldn't take the job. I heard something once (probably in a bad movie) that stuck: One tough guy to another, "you better file that sight off the front of that gun, cuz when they take it away from you and shove it up your a--, it won't hurt so much". Before I moved to TN, I worked for Los Angeles County, and part of my job was inspecting Head Start facilities. All of them are typically in the "bad" parts of town. Many of them are in housing projects, and in the inner city. L.A. County had several hundred of these, and I inspected all of them. In all of the years I worked for the County I NEVER had one problem going around these areas. It is not because I'm a 250" 6'3" guy with a bad attitude - I'm far from that. I did my job with a purpose, paid attention to my surroundings, and knew where my exits were. Once in a rural part of East TN I was lost on a small country road when out of nowhere a man walked in front of me with a M16 and asked me what I was looking for. I think if he would have seen a gun, he would have just shot me without thinking about it. As it was, I had my paperwork in my hand and confessed I was lost. He nodded back the way I came and said to go back to the main road and keep going a few miles - BUT I was in the WRONG place. I just don't think we are in a profession we need to be thinking about carrying a weapon. JF