is that a rifle?

as i mentioned i ran in a different neighborhood this morning... i am doing a 3 mile race in that neighborhood next weekend to benefit a little girl that lives there... she has been diagnosed with lymphoma and the race will go to help her medical costs..  it is closer to home and a better cause than the race i was looking at
but let me tell you there are going to be some hills...
i decided to go over there today to check them out - a good friend of mine walks over there a lot - he does all the culdesacs (where I just cant be bothered) and he has said there are hills... it runs around the outside of our neighborhood so one would expect hills given the hills in our neighborhood...
back and forth i went in and out some of the culdesacs and up and down i went on the hills
i was working my way out of the neighborhood when i saw two little boys playing in their front yard
the one came running to the end of the driveway pciked up a rifle and with good form actually pointed it at me... i looked at him and said out loud "really?"  and he smiled...  i continued running
then i turned around and he was following me with the rifle... at that point i asked him to please not point the rifle at me...  and kept running... it wasnt until i was another quarter of a mile down the road that it hit me that perhaps i should have stopped what i was doing and marched right on up to the little boy's front door and speak with his parents...  but then who knows what the reaction of the parents would have been... shoot - the imagination just races... i mean most parents i know that have given toy guns to their children strongly strictly enforce that guns are not to be pointed at people or animals...
so after next week's race, i may not keep this neighborhood in my routine...
or maybe he will be out next saturday and i can give him a piece of my mind