Friday, September 4, 2009

SHOOT FIRST.....DRESS LATER.

Let me first preface this story by saying we live in a state that not only allows gun ownership.....
They encourage it.....
Infact the next town over requires all it's residents to own a gun...
If you own a house......you have to own a gun....
Now with that being said.....
A number of years ago we were sitting around the family room when we started to hear strange scratching noises....
Much like the scene in Christmas Vacation when only Aunt Bethany can hear the noise.....
We have a wood burning stove in this room with a huge stone back wall and a big stove pipe that comes out of the wall.....
The noise finally showed itself.....a squirrel came right out from where the stove pipe meets the stone....They are limber little buggers....
It started darting all over the room...running behind all the furniture....
At this point me and the daughter run up to the second floor and proceed to watch the excitement from the balcony over looking the great room....
We think this is pretty funny in a creepy sort of way....The husband starts chasing the squirrel to try to get it to go out the front door.....
He calls for backup in the form of our Golden Retriever Gunther......
Gunther was just a big hunk of love and not exactly a dog with killer instincts....
The husband is calling Gunther and what does he do......well...he runs up the stairs and comes and stands behind us......
now the husband is pissed because even the dog deserted him.....
and it didn't help that we were laughing.....
First rule.....when a husband is pissed...don't let him think that you think it's funny...
He finally gets the rodent out the front door.....and by the way it was just a baby squirrel and pretty cute at that...
When he reaches for his shotgun and goes running out the door chasing this little thing....
He fires a shot into the grass missing the squirrel and the squirrel by now is long gone....
Now this might not seem like a stupid husband thing to do right?
Well picture a 250 pound man chasing a 2 pound squirrel at night with a
shotgun....
In his jockey shorts and shoes.....
Thank God it was dark out.....

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