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Wow ok, so this just happened. I Grabbed my coffee and went out and I opened my garage door this morning.

I see a black bear walking up my driveway, not even phased by the noise of the garage door.

He sees me, stops, sits. He's maybe half a car Length away from the entry and I'm about 5 feet into my garage so there's maybe 20 ft between us.

we stared at each other for what felt like an eternity. Was maybe like 10-15 seconds but my heart was racing, the hair on my neck raised.

In my head I already mapped I was maybe 4 steps away from my machete hanging right behind me on the wall if this goes down.

The bear rubbed his nose with his paw, looked around. I said loudly 'hey buddy!'

It got up, took 2 slow steps towards me, it's head bobbing up and down, and then stopped, turned around and continued down the road.

I closed the garage door, came back inside. I'm a bit shaken - I just faced a black bear!

That's it I'm done engaging with the outside world for today.