My wife laughed at me yesterday!!!

[Guest archerdr1]

So, I had my family in Fairfield, AL (near birmingham) last night, and as always, I was packin'. I was putting transmission fluid in the car when I hear a gunshot... close! I instinctively duck, turn, and take cover behind the hood of my car and grab my gun within seconds. As I am starting to draw, I notice an old clunker car driving down the road backfiring. I secure my pistol, get up, and look at my wife, who is laughing her head of in the front seat! She said, "It was that car, pretty impressive moves though!"

[mikegideon]

The car probably needed to get shot anyway

[Armed Aviator]

[Guest peacexxl]

From the thread title, I would have assumed that you just got married yestarday. LOL.

[Guest archerdr1]

no, if that was the subject, the title would have read, my wife laughed at me 7 years ago... and has not stopped laughing since.

[gnmwilliams]

For some reason Barney Fife comes to mind.

[Il Duce]

lol

[Guest archerdr1]

Yeah, well, you should have seen the neighborhood!

[Guest cheez]

I think this might come under the heading "don't think I woulda told that" Lol

[DWARREN123]

While I was active ARMY and just returned from deployments it would happen to me. Better to be prepared than not. Let them all laugh.

[Punisher84]

Gunshots are not something I get used to hearing. I'd have done similar because I have. Agree with dwarren, yuck it up guys.

[Guest clownsdd]

Well, she's got a sense of humor

[Guest archerdr1]

scared her for a second too, but she saw the flash from the tail pipe. I had my back turned. I would much rather look like an idiot ducking for cover and grabbing my hip and it turn out to be a backfire than to not react and it be a gunshot and I get hit in the rear by a bullet. I am glad that it happened, at least I know how I would react if there were shots fired and how quickly I would react.

[Guest wdb45]

Yeah, I too have been scared by similar noises. Having lived a long time in So. FL, I never got used to gunshot or similar noises and I still react. Better safe and laughed at than dead and mourned.

[Chucktshoes]