Who else checks all the exits in a room whenever they enter?

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49. I do. But not because I'm afraid of guns. I'm guessing I've been in close proximity to someone

carrying a gun literally thousands of times in my life and didn't know it.

No, I live in a place where earthquakes can turn where an exit is, into a place where the exit USED to be. Better to know how to get out than be trapped in a building that could soon be on fire.

I do the same thing on airplanes. I count the number of rows between me and the nearest emergency exit hatch. Then I imagine myself crawling over them rather than going into the aisle to die with the rest of those who will probably burn to death or die of smoke inhalation. Then I make sure my Wife knows to grab my shirt with both hands and follow ME rather than a panicked mob. Do you think I do those two things because I'm afraid of guns?

I liken it to playing third base in my glory days. I was constantly making sure I knew where the runners were and where the ball needed to go should it be hit in my direction.

I don't do things out of fear, I do them out of a well developed sense of self-preservation.