Who's listening?

[Spin Drift]

Yesterday afternoon I was speaking to the publisher of the local interest magazine for our neighborhood. He wanted me to be one of their at-large photographers. I showed him some of my equipment and some of the pics that have been published in "Parker Pages." He had his wife's phone with him as his had died that day.

After taking some landscape photos for the magazine we went to my living room and he asked about my favorite Parker. I told him it was the 20ga 30" Damascus one. I thought that was an odd question as nobody had ever asked what my favorite Parker was before as I never told him I had any just that I took some pics for PP.

The really odd thing is that this morning Facebook sent me group requests for both a Nikon group and the Double Gun group with a picture of a Damascus G grade. I've never mentioned Nikons or Parkers on FB ever. I'm only mentioning this because as collectors we are now on the radar for TPTB or for nefarious characters to target for future action.

A friend of mine once said "if everybody is out to get you, paranoia is a good frame of mind." I am assuming that his phone picked up the conversation and through connected AI to the Eavesdrop State had decided that I needed to get information from those two groups. I'm sure that most of you don't advertise your collections on the intertubbies or discuss Parkers at any other place but here or one of the other dedicated collector sites.

Needless to say, I have declined the offer to become a photographer for his publication and have forbidden him to publish pics of our house and grounds. So be careful out there.