Long day in the hot sun.
Great class so far.
Good group of students; it's not anybody's first time, and everybody's gun handling is good, which is always very comforting. The downside to that is that every class has "That Guy", and if you're looking around and not seeing anyone standing out in that respect, then, well...
Anyhow, more later.
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15 comments:
Here's your patch!"
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Hey, not *every* class has that guy.
Just most of them.
How did that old song go? Oh yeah, "Hot Fun in the Summertime..." : )
Now, are you lording your Uber-L33t Gunfighter Ninja Knowledge over the rest of the class?
Is that Uber-L33t Gunfighter Ninja Knowledge based on either "Counterstrike" or "something I read on the Internet"?
Does it look like you're cosplaying as an Uber-L33t Gunfighter Ninja SF Operator? (bonus points if one is in shape, and by shape I mean "spherical").
If you meet all of those points above, congratulations! YOU ARE THAT GUY!
From the few photos I've seen, I'm fairly sure you will NEVER be mistaken for "that GUY."
Why do I feel like I'm *always* "that guy"? Might be the tactical pigtails . . . or the Rainbow Brite outfit I wore to the first Bloggershoot . . .
Lissa-
We had "that guy" at our Appleseed last week; he bore NO resemblance to the pig-tailed pixie you describe.
Whew!! Thanks DT :)
I think at the NE Bloggershoots I am usually "that guy"...
Although does "that guy" have an innate fondness for bayonets?
You mean "that guy" who was "in the shit" but can't tell you units or places because everything's still, like, totally classified?
"That guy" who has a method of handling or stance like nothing nobody's ever seen that he swears is just the way they do it "in the teams?"
"That guy" who isn't really sure he needs the course but figures he might pick up something and mainly wants to see what "civilians" are teaching these days?
I think I know "that guy." If he's the same one, he usually turns in the lowest score, assuming he even completes the course of fire in the face of the unprecedented misfires, equipment failures, failures to feed and jams that seem to afflict only him.
Plus, his sights are out of alignment. If he had his duty piece he'd have turned in better scores.
Steve --
You have apparently had MY "that guy" in your class a time or two. You forgot to mention that, in addition to failing to complete the course of fire, he also fails to complete the class, after he spends two days screeching at his Gunsite rangemaster for "teaching it all wrong" then quits or is terminated.
And you forgot to mention that, at lunch, he dutifully parks himself across the table from a classmate who is both manifestly Hispanic and an Asst D.A., then launches into a 45min tirade about "all those damn Mexicans".
I think in Tam's case, if she couldn't find "that guy" in the class, she wasn't done looking yet, or she needed more caffiene.
I just cannot imagine Tam as "that guy." EVER.
Embarassingly, "that guy" was on my range last Thursday. Took him two days to qualify. Everything was at fault - including the weather (rain Wed/too hot Thurs) - except for him. He spent Friday tirading at one of the other instructors about how everything was wrong, the scoring should change, the course should change, etc.
Oddly enough, everyone else without exception managed to do just fine.
Just fyi. He must travel around a bit.
I've never seen That Guy at any of the classes I've been to... Maybe it's because I'm always so busy helping the instructor correct his mistakes and explaining to all the other students they shouldn't use that POS gun, but if they do, let me have if for a few weeks and I'll fix it up for them, because I'm a better armorer than that punk Browning and....................
And the reason(wheeze) I can't finish (gasp) this run and (pant) gun course is that(wheeze)it's set up (gasp wheeze) all wrong... unlike (pant pant sweat) the training course (gasp) when I went through (sweat wheeze) Air Force SEAL Ranger training (gasp gulp) in Iraq! (faint).
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