[CalCCW03]

Submitted by "A Founding Member"

I had to go to western union to pick up some $ that my cousin owed me and sent me a while back. I totally did not remember how much. I went to ralphs, but their WU machine was broke
so they directed me to a check cashing place (don't like those places). Anyways, I went there and had to park in an alley and then go back up front. I'm the only one in but it looks like a vault.
I fill out the paper, she's asking me how much am I going to receive, I said I have no clue: she looks at me funny. What didn't help was that I was wearing my military jacket (the paint stained one)
anyways as she's figuring things out, people start coming in... we're talking not to savory characters... wanna be gangbangers (at the very least)
then she comes back and with a weird looked very loudly says that I'm getting $1400. At that point something in my mind clicked and I remembered that he owed me for the shipping of a quad. Ok.... no big deal, till I realized that everyone now is LOOOKING at me!

So I get the cash, and as I'm walking out 2 characters step out of the middle line and also come out.

As they came out, I half turned to look up the street, (I saw them coming out of line in the reflection of the door as I opened it walking out of there) and I readjusted my jacket (kind of like they do in the westerns by swinging the jacket back to have access to the hip). Btw gun was invisible under the polo shirt.

They stopped talking, looked at me up and down , and turned and went in the opposite direction. I was so obvious (purposefuly) with my jacket readjustment it was not even funny. Boy was I happy to carry, cause the backstreet alley thing where I had to park was not too confidence inspiring. How should I put it best? it was private.