Janie's got a gun

I'm at a McDonald's yesterday, munching down on some Chicken McNuggets for lunch while attempting to get through The Canterbury Tales (at the rate they're traveling with me, they'll never reach that cathedral.... But did you know that "you all" is in The Knight's Tale? Right here at line 1967. Well, actually "yow al". It makes me wonder if Chaucer inadvertently coined the term "y'all"... but I digress).

Anyways, so I'm dipping in my barbecue sauce and attempting to read. Seated next to me is a group of about 5 guys, dispersed out to about three 2-person tables (I guess so they were spaced out). I start hearing one of the guys talking about how stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart can't return things once they're delivered to them. That instead they must sell them to get them out of inventory. This apparently means that the item gets put on clearance at a discount to clear them out.

The guy had walked into a Wal-Mart and found such a clearance. On ammunition.

The price for the handgun and shotgun bullets were so low that they were cheap enough to buy and resell elsewhere (according to him). So low, in fact, that he wasn't sure they were priced correctly and so he checked with a nearby employee to make sure they were. After confirming the low price, he left... to call some hunting buddies to see if they wanted him to buy some shells for them (yes was the answer).

A few minutes later, the guy went back into the store, and asked a nearby salesgirl for all the ammo on clearance, to purchase. All. This entailed her having to go into the back and bring the back-stock out (she went around the shelves putting boxes and boxes into a shopping cart, loading the whole thing up). In the end, the guy walked out of the store with that shopping cart full of ammunition. And a security guard escorting him to his car (to whom the guy had been kind enough to show his concealed weapons license and gun; though he'd not been asked...).

Now, while the image of a shopping cart piled full of bullets is entertaining, I am a wee bit surprised/worried that one person can go in and buy so much ammunition at one time. Like they were stocking up for an arsenal... or something.

Then registering shortly after that crossed my mind initially, my brain registered/connected that the guy had a concealed weapon permit, which probably meant he had a gun on him right then, in McDonalds.... How American, I guess?

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her whole world's come undone
From looking straight at the sun