MY FIRST GUN
This was my first week and I was still being trained by Tommy , we had been together for about three days and I was feeling so empowered to put in simple terms I was thinking” I’m the the shit!
This day we went to a apartment complex and all the units where brick duplexes within this complex there where about 20 units . When we pulled in Tommy said we have two customers in this complex you take the one over to the left of where we were sitting and he would go over to another unit to the right of us, he asked if I thought I could do it “I was a little nervous “ but I said no problem. I got the sheet for this customer and headed towards the door, you got to remember this was my first ever collection on my own and I was very new to this and pumped up so I may have knocked a bit hard , a guy came to the door and asked me what I wanted I blurted out very badly that I needed to collect on his past due account ! he said I pay you next Friday then I jumped straight into if payment isn’t paid today I would have to pick up the unit with this we went back and forth for awhile . The guy was getting angry and I was getting more brazen, in mid sentence the guy stopped talking and he said “I got something for your ass” and he turned and walked down the hallway and left me standing in the doorway as I was looking down the small hallway Tommy came up behind me and asked what’s going on I said Tommy I think this guys going to get a gun! He said no way I said no really I think this guy is getting a gun Tommy, he said give it a minute. So I turned back towards the hallway about this time I saw the barrel of a gun! In a panic I turned back to where Tommy was looking over my shoulder a few seconds before and said shit Tommy he has a “”” that’s all I got out “HE WAS GONE! I looked out in the drive where we had parked he was in the truck waving me to come on with a look of fear in his eyes! I ran to the truck and jumped into the seat and as fast as the little old truck could go we got out of the complex as we drove away Tommy was laughing is ass off!! That was the first time I realized you had to be a little crazy to do this job and then it dawned on me I WAS.