I had a similar scare awhile back-
my son wanted to take a pic of our arsenal. One of the guns, a savage 110 BA in 338 Lapua I bought with no one knowing. When I popped it out of its “stash” my son was ecstatic. He asked when did you get that? And of course, the next big question was “does mom know?” Well, the comment of “keep it down, man” with a grin, he knew what that meant. So he takes this picture of the 4 powder burners we own, all laid out on a table, proudly raised by bipods.
That night at a restaurant my son(like all kids today) is scrolling thru his phone, and when he was affixed on one view my wife asked what he was looking at. Well, he shows that pic of all the guns!!! She asked, “what’s that big huge one!?” My son realized what he now did, and stared at me with mouth wide open, from across the table.
i took a swig of my beer and non chalantly said “oh, it’s just one of the pellet guns I’ve had ” and she says oh, ok. I felt my son still staring at me from my peripheral, and right then and there I realized I set a bad example. He watched me just escape from that so calmly, smooth, without a tremble in my reply, as I gulped down another swig from my beer. Little did he know, though, I wanted to beat his a$$ right then and there, cause my heart was a pounding, lol.
That was 8 years ago. He’s 23 now, and into golf. One day he pulled out his clubs and pulled out a driver and I asked him where he got that one, as it looked unfamiliar. He said he treated himself last week to it, at $300. His girlfriend lives with him, and their goals were about getting college out of the way, careers going, money saved, etc, etc.
I asked if he told her about his “treat to himself”, and guess what line pops out of his mouth, non chalantly as he’s pretend swinging on the front lawn? You guessed it-
“Keep it down, man, keep it down”, with the same sneaky grin I had years earlier.
i raised a demon....lol!
my son wanted to take a pic of our arsenal. One of the guns, a savage 110 BA in 338 Lapua I bought with no one knowing. When I popped it out of its “stash” my son was ecstatic. He asked when did you get that? And of course, the next big question was “does mom know?” Well, the comment of “keep it down, man” with a grin, he knew what that meant. So he takes this picture of the 4 powder burners we own, all laid out on a table, proudly raised by bipods.
That night at a restaurant my son(like all kids today) is scrolling thru his phone, and when he was affixed on one view my wife asked what he was looking at. Well, he shows that pic of all the guns!!! She asked, “what’s that big huge one!?” My son realized what he now did, and stared at me with mouth wide open, from across the table.
i took a swig of my beer and non chalantly said “oh, it’s just one of the pellet guns I’ve had ” and she says oh, ok. I felt my son still staring at me from my peripheral, and right then and there I realized I set a bad example. He watched me just escape from that so calmly, smooth, without a tremble in my reply, as I gulped down another swig from my beer. Little did he know, though, I wanted to beat his a$$ right then and there, cause my heart was a pounding, lol.
That was 8 years ago. He’s 23 now, and into golf. One day he pulled out his clubs and pulled out a driver and I asked him where he got that one, as it looked unfamiliar. He said he treated himself last week to it, at $300. His girlfriend lives with him, and their goals were about getting college out of the way, careers going, money saved, etc, etc.
I asked if he told her about his “treat to himself”, and guess what line pops out of his mouth, non chalantly as he’s pretend swinging on the front lawn? You guessed it-
“Keep it down, man, keep it down”, with the same sneaky grin I had years earlier.
i raised a demon....lol!
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