Gun Dollar

[opaul]

Anyone elses defintion that a gun dollar = $100 dollars. Significant other says.."how much did you spend?" Only six gun dollars.

[slumpy]

Theirs no way i can word it and get it by my wife, anytime I swipe that bank card she gets a text about it on her phone! I really miss cash!

[P&R Fan]

I posted this story a few years ago, but it's worth repeating for the guys who have to answer that question.
Several years ago I went to a gun show with several hundred dollars cash. Missus P&R Fan knew I was gonna buy something. If memory serves that was the day I bought a 3" M13-2 from my favorite dealer for $300. I walked back in the house and she stopped me, gave me the Hairy Eyeball and said "so, how much did you spend?" I never answered her. I just reached in my pocket, pulled out 3 or 4 crisp, new hundred dollar bills and said "here, these are for you". Her beautiful blue eyes lit up and she never said another word. She never did get an answer to that question.
Yeah, it was expensive, but it worked like a charm.
That, my friends, is called having a "Tactical Marital Encounter".
Try it sometime. It really works.
Jim

[opaul]

So, technically the M13-2 cost you $600

[HAWKEYE10]

Originally Posted by slumpy

Theirs no way i can word it and get it by my wife, anytime I swipe that bank card she gets a text about it on her phone! I really miss cash!

There is a saying. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission" There is no charge for this advice. Happy New Year! Don

[Dueeast]

I just tell my wife it's none of her business, and that she should get back to her house chores.

[deanodog]

Then there are us old guys who have no wife. Which problem would YOU rather have. I'm just sayin....

[Armyphotog]

Dueeast, expect a bullet in the back, probably from one of your own guns. Bummer.

[Pete99004]

I just count the shoe boxes in the closet and then when "the question" is asked I reply with "do you know you have 86 pair of shoes in the closet?" - Usually, that's the end of this conversation.


Pete

[Aticus]

Originally Posted by Armyphotog

Dueeast, expect a bullet in the back, probably from one of your own guns. Bummer.

Photog, check where Dueeast lives. He's from the Jersey shore that says a lot.

On the OP's thread, I'm lucky when I bring a gun how I show it to her and tell her exactly what I paid for it. She doesn't care and I don't have to make anything up for her or to her.

I've got a jewel, guys.

Pecos

[williamlayton]

Long years ago I learned to just get what I want, not say a word and as time goes by she thinks i have had it forever.
The model 19 is on the computer table as we speak--it has been there since yestiday and she has been using the computer with nary a thought.
I HAVE NOT LIED.
Blessings

[rburg]

Thence came the Friday in August of maybe 10 years ago. We'd set up at the Lexington Dickson show. Just for fun, I'd included my factory engraved Colt collection, 2 snakes and a SAA. So Jack Haney strolls by as he always does during set up. He takes one look and tells me to put those things under the table, he'll be back in a few. OK. Of course I did nothing but continued BSing with my table pard. I'm from the Nawth, him from the west. We only saw each other at gun shows. He did mention he thought Jack was serious. OK, the price just went up a couple of hunnert, but I wasn't going to break down the display we'd just spent an hour setting up.

So in a few more minutes, Jack shows back up with a big, commercial style checkbook. You know the ones, 3 checks per page. He asks how big it needs to be, he needed those guns and could sell them right away. Ugh. No recourse and he wanted no one else to see he'd just bought them at the show. So I hadn't paid a bunch for any of them, and at $5300, I was making a very nice profit. If I hadn't known him for a while, I'd never had even considered paper.

So I'm lighter by a bunch of tonnage, but I didn' want them anyway. Early departure for me, I was puttin' it in the wind, headed up the road.
Got there and asked Momma for a favor the next morning, early. Then handed her the check to deposit. She had never questioned my crazy buying habits before. Then up and came the events known as the David Carroll episodes, the ones where he carted off 23 or 24 Registered Magnums and maybe a dozen or so K22s. Momma kept her nose out of those transactions, but graciously took the checks to the bank when asked to.

The key to all this being guns aren't a one way street out of the bank account. The way the cash flows is more dependent on the flighty whims of my gun interests this afternoon. When you see a gun that interests you, and you know its worth 2 or 3 multiples of the asking price, your job is staked out for you. You horse trade and cheat the other guy to buy the gun for even less!

[opaul]

It's a sorry man that has more revolvers than his wife can clean. Heard another guy this morning that asked his wife if the reason she kept buying shoes was to keep other women from having them....hmm..guys and S&W's?