Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Had one of those impromptu meetings with a potential like-minded individual the other day. I was at the bank and as I was exiting the building I saw that the armored car making deliveries had parked next to the truck. I start to get into the truck and I hear a voice..”Sir? Excuse me, sir?” And its the underpaid security guard, who, incidentally, was carrying a Hi-Point in his holster, trying to get my attention. (I didn’t see what his partner had but I was willing to bet once they were outside of their tin can I’d have had them outgunned to several orders of magnitude.) He wanted to ask me about the 120mm ammo tube that was sitting in the bed of the truck. I told him I’d picked it up in my travels and he said it looked like an excellent choice for ‘burying stuff’. Hmmm. What kinda stuff, I asked. ‘Seeds, guns, that sort of thing.’ ‘I like the way you think’, I said as I pulled the tube from he back of the truck to show him. He also expressed interest in the gas and water cans locked up behind the cab of the truck. We chatted for a couple minutes about the merits of various fuel, water and ammo cans and about where to purchase them locally. I told him to swing by the shop and I might have some more water cans to sell him.

And thats pretty much how you meet other like-minded individuals….it just happens organically and on it’s own. Serendipity, man.

Speaking of random encounters, someone actually bitched at me in the comments a post or two back because I didn’t post some sort of grief-porn about 9-11. Uhm…did you need a reminder or something? I make posts regarding remembrances like Patriots Day (the real one), Pearl Harbor day, and one or two others but thats mostly because they are overlooked these days. Somehow I dont think the 9-11 episode got overlooked this year. So there.