Critical error and where were you guys when I needed you?

[snert]

So I finally became fed up with trying to fit the proverbial twenty pounds of spuds in a ten pound sack. My reloading/gun vault room isnt very big, has plumbing etc that takes up space at all the wrong areas, and when I moved in I moved in fast. I really didn't do a great job of anticipating my needs for room, storage and music, of course.

Today I decided that I needed to move stuff out to "see the space" better. (And here is where one of you should have stopped me, because I committed the ultimate "duh")

I had to move my guns and my safe, which is a one man job, no issue. I calmly and methodically removed my firearms and placed them on the king bed in my wife's sewing room just across the hall. I had to go in my vault and move the safe, and had the dolly all set and was just about to heave ho and move it when I heard a faint noise from the other room.

My blood turned to ice.

Yep, in a slow but rising tone of incredulous surprise (and possibly budding mercenary thinking) I heard my wife counting, 27, 28, 29...

I am such a dumb@##.

Thinking fast, I have spent the last four hours reminding her that she counted wrong at 32 and it's really 42.

room to grow, ya know...

 

[M21]

Why didn't you send her off on a weekend with a girlfriend or relative to be away before you started this project ?

 

[Intheshop]

That's funny in a, sorta BTDT way.

This was 20 sumthin years ago. My buds all thought me nuts for constantly painting rigs OD green,black scope and a Harris bipod. Except this time,like the OP..... there must've been 10 lined up on the floor,with bipods open(cleaning one of the safes).Yup,wifey just so happened to be making a recon trip into shop for something or other and I hear the count........ what a sinking feeling.

 

[topclass2017]

I found a great way to avoid this problem...I only keep a relatively small portion of my firearms in my safe here at the house. The remainder are at my (close by) grandson's house. He's not married, and recently acquired yet another safe.

 

[rjtfroggy]

A few years ago my wife walks into my reloading room and spots 7-8 shotguns sitting in the corner, she asks why they are out and I said no room in the safe because of the scoped rifles.
Her reply " buy another safe". Now when she sees one of my BR guns out and she asks I tell her it is in need of cleaning, both safes are full now. Every once in a while she says Why don't you sell some, I just ignore those comments. She is used to it now.

 

[thejamesd]

Rookie mistake!

 

[Riesel]

Funny thread in a sick sort of way.

 

[ebb]

WOW

 

[338 Mollett]

I fear for future leverage against you !

 

[284winner]

My gun safe is in our master bedroom walk-in closet right where she has hundreds of pairs of shoes and outfits. She once said "Wow, you sure have alot of guns"! I said yep, call them an investment. I then said "Wow, you sure have lots of shoes and outfits"! S"we call them an investment"? She just laughed. I priced a few pairs of her shoes and they came in at a cool 175.00 per pair. I didn't go further because there was no reason. She has 45 pair of shoes on her shoe rack. I can't even begin to count outfits but well over triple digits. My point is, she's happy and so am I. No need to reveal the obvious for either of us.

 

[joshb]

So I finally became fed up with trying to fit the proverbial twenty pounds of spuds in a ten pound sack. My reloading/gun vault room isnt very big, has plumbing etc that takes up space at all the wrong areas, and when I moved in I moved in fast. I really didn't do a great job of anticipating my needs for room, storage and music, of course.

Today I decided that I needed to move stuff out to "see the space" better. (And here is where one of you should have stopped me, because I committed the ultimate "duh")

I had to move my guns and my safe, which is a one man job, no issue. I calmly and methodically removed my firearms and placed them on the king bed in my wife's sewing room just across the hall. I had to go in my vault and move the safe, and had the dolly all set and was just about to heave ho and move it when I heard a faint noise from the other room.

My blood turned to ice.

Yep, in a slow but rising tone of incredulous surprise (and possibly budding mercenary thinking) I heard my wife counting, 27, 28, 29...

I am such a dumb@##.

Thinking fast, I have spent the last four hours reminding her that she counted wrong at 32 and it's really 42.

room to grow, ya know...

......and I thought you were a smart guy. Nothing you can do now. Same kinda thing happened when we moved. I packed 4 2x2x5 ft. crates full of guns. She came out with a box of dishes, looked at the boxes and asks: “Why are you taking ALL of your guns?” Absent mindedly, I respond “I’m just taking half of them.” Doh!

 

[284winner]

Probably alot of guys out there like myself. I have a 64 gun vault. Not full of 64 guns of course but well over half that. Being a huge vault, the wife uses it as well for her jewelry, cash and other important items when we leave town. She knows the combination and uses it regularly. She's well aware if what guns are in there and she has a couple pistols of her own that she puts in and out when not using them. All in all, we are on the same page where my gun numbers are concerned. Hell, I could be doing alot worse things than tinkering with guns.

 

[MGYSGT]

Guy came in the gun store I occasionally work at when they need help. He's looking at a couple of pistols and trying to decide the $500 or the $900 pistol. His wife says buy the $900 pistol. I say, you are a lucky man. He points to his leg and shows me the scar his wife put there, when she accidently shot him with her shotgun while learning to shoot Trap. He gets anything he wants.

 

[Cecil S.]

Be strong my friend. Im still trying to explain a closet full of powder. Ordered powder while working away from home and she tried to put away the new order and had no room. Dang it...she never goes in that closet.

 

[Ggmac]

Silly guys . Im holding about 800 guns , all for my friends , whose wives dont like guns .

 

[K22]

Love your post - my wifey found me out when I started storing rifles under our bed after I ran out of room in my gun safe.

But after 47 years of marriage she comes to expect something like this from me.

Things I'm no longer allowed to do:

1. Store ground hog legs in her freezer.

2. No more ground hog leg roasts on the back porch with the guys - well most of those guys have passed anyway.

3. Leave a 8:00AM and return at 9:00PM hunting ground hogs - because of my age (i.e. 73) I'm only allowed a 4 to 5 hour hunt - she doesn't want to become a varmint hunter's widow.

4. Play my Ennio Morricone CD's (from Clint Eastwood Dollars Trilogy sound tracks) in her presences.

 

[joshb]

Silly guys . Im holding about 800 guns , all for my friends , whose wives dont like guns .

Gary! You are an enigma wrapped in a conundrum! A true legend, as far as I’m concerned! Remember! You sent me pictures! I have seen the light and it comes from you! I bow to your powers!
Your wife is a Saint! Give her my best!
Josh

 

[joshb]

Love your post - my wifey found me out when I started storing rifles under our bed after I ran out of room in my gun safe.

But after 47 years of marriage she comes to expect something like this from me.

Things I'm no longer allowed to do:

1. Store ground hog legs in her freezer.

2. No more ground hog leg roasts on the back porch with the guys - well most of those guys have passed anyway.

3. Leave a 8:00AM and return at 9:00PM hunting ground hogs - because of my age (i.e. 73) I'm only allowed a 4 to 5 hour hunt - she doesn't want to become a varmint hunter's widow.

4. Play my Ennio Morricone CD's (from Clint Eastwood Dollars Trilogy sound tracks) in her presences.

Try some Willie Nelson!

 

[1911nut]

Rookie mistake!

yeah snert.

 

[Nick Caprinolo]

How's this for a wife? When I go to the gun store, my wife likes to go with me. She doesn't shoot, but likes guns. And when I don't see something I like, she asks me if I want to try another store. One day I asked her about this, her response was I just like to see you happy. She can't cook very well but I can. And she keeps asking me if I want another coffee and even comes in and empties and wipes my ashtray. An added plus is she knows nothing about computers.