Wife gave me a black eye

[Crighton]

Well we got almost 12" of snow yesterday. So I'm outside shoveling for about an hour and almost finished. Just have half of the plow mess left at the end of the driveway, Im 95% done and finally feeling a little relief. So my wife decides NOW that I'm almost done shes going to comes out to "help" me finish. Less than a minute after she starts "helping" she back hands me right in the left eye with the sharp end of the shovel

And she wonders why I never let her come to the gun range with me.

[RevBrown]

And she wonders why I never let her come to the gun range with me.

Hah! For X-mas I got my brother a pellet gun. One that you load with a clip. My sister asked my brother if she could take a look at it. So he says sure he has to reload the clip a bit anyways. He an I go off to reload our pellet guns (Not buying him one and being unarmed) and we hear this snap and god-awful wailing. In the living room my sister is holding her leg and screaming. So I asked what happened, she says she was playing with the gun and shot herself. Now my sister is 23 years old mind you.
So being me I asked why did you point the gun at yourself and pull the trigger. She told me she didn't think it was loaded.
I asked her "Do you know the phrase One in the Chamber?"
"Well.....No.....Why?"
So we proceeded to have a little discussion about the way guns work.

Makes me a little scared to think about how many hunting rifles we had in the house growing up.

[neppo1345]

Hah! For X-mas I got my brother a pellet gun. One that you load with a clip. My sister asked my brother if she could take a look at it. So he says sure he has to reload the clip a bit anyways. He an I go off to reload our pellet guns (Not buying him one and being unarmed) and we hear this snap and god-awful wailing. In the living room my sister is holding her leg and screaming. So I asked what happened, she says she was playing with the gun and shot herself. Now my sister is 23 years old mind you.
So being me I asked why did you point the gun at yourself and pull the trigger. She told me she didn't think it was loaded.
I asked her "Do you know the phrase One in the Chamber?"
"Well.....No.....Why?"
So we proceeded to have a little discussion about the way guns work.

Makes me a little scared to think about how many hunting rifles we had in the house growing up.

Not exactly an accurate parallel there chief...

A snow shovel belongs outside shoveling snow. A loaded pellet gun does not belong in the house. Also, you never hand someone any kind of gun without first making sure it either unloaded, or making sure they know it's loaded. Thats as much your fault as it is hers.

Whered it hit you crighton? above or below the eye?

You're lucky you didn't straight up lose it.

[Crighton]

Right in the corner of my left eye where the bone stops and the eye socket starts. It sort of jammed in there and wedged. Serious about knocked me off my feet, the skin's actually split very slightly. Another half inch to the right and I'd have been off to the hospital for a poked out eyeball.

I had previously commented that she always found the most ineffectual way of "helping" possible. She was trying to sweep snow off the drive with a little dinky house broom. So back into the garage she goes and comes out with a snow shovel with the plain jane wood handle. Well I guess I was wrong because she was sure alot less helpfull with the shovel!

Believe me I was none to happy, but yelling at a woman who already feels bad is counter productive to say the least. My next door neighbor saw it all and took pitty on me and actually finished my driveway.

[RevBrown]

Not exactly an accurate parallel there chief...

A snow shovel belongs outside shoveling snow. A loaded pellet gun does not belong in the house. Also, you never hand someone any kind of gun without first making sure it either unloaded, or making sure they know it's loaded. Thats as much your fault as it is hers.

Whered it hit you crighton? above or below the eye?

You're lucky you didn't straight up lose it.

I see you didn't read the part of his post that I singled out. That's ok.
We could go on all day about the properness of gun safety but IT'S A FREAKIN PLASTIC PELLET GUN. At point blank it just stings like hell. Nobody is going to get seriously wounded with this thing unless they are beaten with it. So just put the badge away. When I need the Safety Police I'll make sure you are promptly notified.

[neppo1345]

I see you didn't read the part of his post that I singled out. That's ok.
We could go on all day about the properness of gun safety but IT'S A FREAKIN PLASTIC PELLET GUN. At point blank it just stings like hell. Nobody is going to get seriously wounded with this thing unless they are beaten with it. So just put the badge away. When I need the Safety Police I'll make sure you are promptly notified.

A. You didn't single any part of the post out.
B. When i was a kid I used to kill things with my pellet gun.
C. Any kind of pellet gun is not a toy.
D. I think you're the one that needs to learn about gun safety, not your sister...

I understand what you're talking about now...when anyone says "pellet gun" i assume it's the type i had when i was a kid...you know...they shoot lead pellets at around 600fps...yeah...
it's different from an airsoft gun
and it's different from a toy gun.

Next time you should be a little clearer with your statements so you don't look like an idiot.



"Keeping idiots safe from themselves since 1986"

/sorry to take the thread off topic crighton

[REDRT]

I helped my brother into a snow bank face first once and got a black eye from his elbow as I held him down. Moments like that are priceless.

[Altimas]

Me and my brother were sledding one year and he went off a retaining wall and landed head first in a trash can and got stuck because he had an oversized coat on. I laughed for like 30 minutes before I could even try to help him out.