Pittsburgh Area O/C

[lildobe]

I've decided to do what PA Patriot and gnbrotz have done and start a thread chronicling my OC adventures...

Let me start out by saying, I am a clean-cut, well groomed 28 year old overweight man. I'm normally dressed in blujeans and a t-shirt with my Glock 22 (.40 caliber, full frame) on my left side in a Blackhawk Serpa.

And now, onto todays adventures...

I was over at Waterworks Mall, doing some shopping and killing some time before a job interview at Seneca Valley EMS (Hope Hope Hope...) this morning.

Dress today was business casual - Light Blue Polo, Black Slacks. No cover garment (Was enjoying the nice weather!)

For those of you not familiar with the area, Waterworks Mall is an upper-middle class shopping center/strip mall between Aspinwall and Fox Chapel, in a small sliver of the City of Pittsburgh, near the Highland Park Bridge. Both areas swarming with soccer moms and various other "sheeple"

First stop Panera Bread. Walked in, and people started screaming and running for the door as if there was a fire in the place.... ok, no, no one had any reaction really... ordered a Multigrain Bagel, Creme Cheese and an Iced Green Tea. Had a pleasant conversation with the man at the next table regarding my "pea shooter", and (jokingly) being challenged to hit a pop can across the parking lot by a pair of Mall Maintenance workers.

Next, Walmart for a new shirt for the interview (All my nice polos have stains on them ) Spent a half hour or 40 minutes browsing the clothing and HBA sections. No reactions from anyone there.

Then down to Supercuts for a quick trim - not even a glance...

Then I spent the next couple hours just killing time, taking some photos around (found a neat old fire hydrant by the old pumphouse behind the mall!)

Disarmed for my interview and secured the weapon in my handy-dandy Center of Mass in-car gun safe and had a promising interview with the Assistant Chief of S.V. EMS.

Returned to the car, retrieved the weapon and re-armed myself, then got gas at Get-Go (Woo Hoo! $1.60 off per gallon! I love Fuel Perks!)

So that was my day... nothing out of the ordinary happened, no police were called and everyone went about their business as if it was a perfectly natural thing.

And the most important point...
I OC'd in Walmart without the SWAT team being called!

Other recent OC over the past month, Oakland at Fuel n' Fuddle and Mad Mex, as well as Ross Park area at a tasty Mexican restaurant that's across from Olive Garden. Also the Red White and Blue thrift store on Rt. 51, and The Getaway, a Wonderful Irish Pub near McNeilly Rd in Brookline/Edgebrook. Batteries Plus on Library Rd., and many many places in the shopping areas around Robinson

[headcase]

Atta boy! Good stuff!

[mjf]

Waterworks is a good place for OC. It also has more crime then you'd expect. Stores are robbed from time to time there and last year a woman was kidnapped there.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_501818.html

[lildobe]

Three letter explanation for most of the crime at waterworks: 94B.

L...O...L...


So true!

So bad, yet so true!

[mpi]

i live just up the road in dormont off potomac.

[lildobe]

i live just up the road in dormont off potomac.

Awesome!

We've probably driven past each other on West Liberty at some point

[ar15jules]

i live just up the road in dormont off potomac.

Ever OC in Fioris Pizza.....man I miss that pie.
Jules

[mpi]

we'll have to get some feed up at tom's.

[pghplr]

Ever OC in Fioris Pizza.....man I miss that pie.
Jules

I've Oc'd in Fiori's, Campetti's and Beto's. My OC experience was the same as CC'ing in that I still like Beto's the best! Followed closely by Fiori's, then Campetti's as my #3 favorite pizza!
Thread related, I'm up for some gyro's at Toms if we want a South Hills OC/CC dinner.

[ShakeyDad]

First stop Panera Bread. Walked in, and people started screaming and running for the door as if there was a fire in the place....

That's some funny shit right there, Dobe.....

Congrats on a completely un-eventful day !!