A painful set of memories to be sure... for her :-)
I went into a LARGE chain LGS and a fellow I knew who worked there said: "Pssst, Gary, I have something to show you, stay right there"
He went into the back and brought out a Beretta long gun box, then pulled out and assembled a beautiful Beretta 687 EELL. He told me the management must have made a mistake on the price (it was rather low) and even though he argued with them that the price was WRONG, they got angry at him and told him to sell it at the price on the sticker. Well, beside having an EXTRA 10% off (one day only) AND getting an EXTRA 15% off if you applied for and opened a credit card with their store name I was thunderstruck and bought it. What shotgunner could refuse such a deal? Not many I'll bet
Well when I got it home did the wifey say, "honey that's such a GR8 deal, congrats" No she went through the roof and didn't talk to me for weeks, which as it happens I quite enjoyed :-)
The next (at the same store, same salesman) time I bought a Beretta (I like Berettas) 391 20ga. youth (despite my son being only 7 or 8) and again got the same treatment from the missus.
The last time I bought a rare NIB 20+ year old handgun as an "Investment" and was once again thrown into the dog house. Well fast forward 5 years from then and a collector of this brand paid me a LOT more than I paid for it (it came with 9 OEM extra mags that themselves were selling for well over a hundred bucks each) and when I got home, I had stuffed wads of 5x100 dollar bills in different pockets I met her in the kitchen and counted out one of the wads after which she said, "What is that for?" I reminded her of the investment handgun and told her it had increased in value and the $500 was to go buy some new dresses. Then I pulled out another $500 wad, counted it out for her and she asked, "what's THAT for?" I said for shoes to match the dress :-) Then pulled yet ANOTHER $500 wad, counted it and said it was to reimburse us for the "investment" I made. When asked if there was any more? I said there was but it was for me to play with :-)
By this time when I brought home a rare MIJ Winchester 101 with screw chokes she just nodded at me, avoided the argument and said to tell her if I sold it. I did not I traded it for a very nice no longer made guitar!
Anyone else?
Last edited by gnappi; 12/09/17 06:00 PM.
