Imagine walking home from work the same way every day, but one day, a security guard stops you and claims you’re walking through a construction site and need to leave. If there weren’t any construction work going on, would you comply anyway, or would you keep walking?

In this story, one man is in this exact situation, but something the security guard says allows him to comply in a way the security guard never saw coming!

Keep reading for all the details.

You cannot enter here buddy!

I was walking home from work, having just gotten off at the bus stop half a block up the road. My daily route cut across this large open field next to my neighbourhood.

This day was different though, but I didn’t realize it right at that moment.

I hadn’t gotten very far onto that field before I had someone yelling at me to stop. I turned to the sound, and saw a security guard running up to me.

Here’s how the conversation went…

Security guard: you cannot enter here buddy.

Me: why?

Security guard: it’s a construction site

I glance around the area, what amounted to a construction site was still an open field. They had put up a fence around it, but there was a large gap in it where I had blindly walked though and another on the far end of the desire path.

The guard wouldn’t let him explain.

Aside from the fence and the security guards truck parked off to the side, there was nothing to indicate that this was anything more than the same old grassy field.

I tried to explain that I just wanted to use cross over to the other side, but the security guard would have none of it, finally saying that “[I’m] not allowed on a construction site without a hard hat”, as he tapped the one he wore to indicate what he meant.

At that moment I probably had the biggest grin on my face.

He was prepared!

I slipped off my back pack and pulled out my own hard hat. Then for good measure I also grabbed my ‘vis vest’ which was at the bottom past my work duds, and then did that toe point gesture to show off the CSA green triangle that was on the tongue of my sneakers, which indicated that they were work approved steel-toed shoes.

I didn’t spare the guard another look, as I picked up my backpack and carried on down the path, and for the guards part he didn’t say anything further.

I was apprenticing as a commercial pipe-fitter at the time. XD

That was good fortune that he happened to have a hardhat in his backpack. I bet the security guard wasn’t expecting that!

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Apparently, a motorcycle helmet is also sufficient.

Exactly!

This person expected it to play out differently.

It definitely helps to be prepared.

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