Gun show or fiancee's birthday party?

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Country Boy

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OK, last Friday, I wanted to do a very bad thing. My fiancee was having a birthday celebration with much food, friends, and festivities. She lives two hours away, and I was running a half-hour late already. It was then that I saw those two words that melt my heart: GUN SHOW. What a decision! This kind of stuff only happens to other people, not to me. Do I go to the show and end up even later to the celebration, or do I go to the celebration and possibly miss the deal of a lifetime? I chose the gun show. Fortunately or unfortunately, I found out that the show was open only to exhibitors on Friday night, and would not be open to the public until Saturday morning. I missed it!
Has anyone out there had a deathwish like this before? Am I nuts for wanting to do what I wanted to do? What would you do in my situation?
 
As stupid as this may sound, I think I would have to drop y the gun show. You know, just in and out for quick look...

CMOS ;)

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Gun show.
Heck, you can always find another fiancee. Wives and fiancees are overrated. (OWWWWWW - Stop that honey! I was just joking. OWWWWWWW. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!).


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HankB, I almost lost it when I read yours!

I have to admit that I would have gone to the birthday party. You could have mentioned the choice, and how it never entered your mind to miss the party. Get a couple of brownie points that way (as well as appreciation) and the next show is guaranteed.
 
Try to do both; I agree with FS's suggestion to call ahead and drop by the show for a bit. Then you can have the best of both worlds.

Example 1: buddy of mine is getting married the same day as a big gun show at the Valley Forge convention center. I show up at the show in my suit (everyone must have thought I was a fed) and just make it to the ceremony (in Villanova) in time.

Example 2: another buddy is getting married in Dallas, TX on the same weekend as the Harrisburg MAAC show. This is the biggest show in Pennsylvania and is only held 2x per year. I take the redeye flight back from Dallas to Philadelphia (arriving in Philadelphia at 0400) to get up at 0600 and drive two hours to Harrisburg to make the show.

Gotta get priorities! :)

Justin

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Justin T. Huang, Esq.
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Considering the thousands I have spent on the wife with no real return the gun show would have been a much better option!

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Unless you wanted to end the engagement, go to the party, and bring a present, and a card, and flowers to apologize for even thinking about a gun show.
 
griz, are you female, by any chance?

I boycott gunshows around here - they consist 95% of sellers doing what I call "skimming" or gouging the public - raising prices significantly over what one would pay for the same item in a retail shop to skim the people who don't know much about guns and hit the shows to buy a gun on rare occasion, ON TOP OF the ridiculous entry fee (usually $6-8). Nothing wrong with this practice, necessarily - but nothing wrong with me attempting to send them the message that I don't like the practice, by boycotting, either - my view is - I'll pay an entry fee to get good deals, but to get the same stuff I can get over the net or at a retail shop for higher prices, they had better let me in free. Now the Wannamaker show is a different story, I gather - I haven't been, but I will attend my first one next month.
 
Gun show, but then agian that may be why I am still single. I would make arragements to do both. It would require spending less time with the lady at the beginning or end of the day. Only do this if the show is really worth it. Tulsa or Houston? She would have to give up a few hours.
 
Personally, I think griz has it right. You said 'fiancee' not girlfriend. There will be other gun shows, no matter what the doomsdayers will have you believe. What if you had bought a gun and your future wife found out about it - and she will, that's a guarantee. How would she and you feel then?

On the other hand, if she's into shooting and you bought her a new gun and took it to the party even if you were a little late, then you're starting out right.
 
I think the gun show stop would be ok, as long as you were just shopping for a birthday present for her there. That's what you were doing there, right? :)
 
No Futo, I'm male, formerly married, and looking for somebody who would like to go to a gun show for her birthday.
 
I don't mind giving the female point of view here: You were wrong. If some stupid gun show was more important to you than she is, then you have no business planning a wedding -- because you surely aren't planning a marriage.

Marriage is not just four bare legs in a bed. It's putting each other's interests ahead of your own.

If you don't love her enough to put her ahead of your stinkin' hobbies now, when you've still got stars in your eyes and your love is still fresh and young, you sure as heck shouldn't promise that you will put her first for the rest of your life. It would be a lie.

pax

"The question of duty does not always lie between a good thing and a bad thing. A man has very often to choose between one good thing and another." -- George MacDonald
 
I have to say gun show. don't you hate traffic, esp, in the bay area. it'll make you and hour late for anything, you can always make up time on a two hour drive. Cars can go fasters then the speed limit for a reason.

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Cool down pax!

First of all, what she don't know, won't hurt her.
And second, you never know when the guy who has been hoarding preban lowers, mags and 6
Dillon progressives, with all the right dies
died last week, and his wife is getting rid of all his junk is just walking into the gun show when you arrive.

Believe it or not, I have had things like this happen.

Do you believe in Kharma?

Waterdog

[This message has been edited by Waterdog (edited September 19, 2000).]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Cool down pax![/quote]

I'm cool, really I am. :) I was simply presenting the female point of view.

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First of all, what she don't know, won't hurt her.[/quote]

If he marries a woman that he doesn't love enough to put first in his life, eventually she'll know.

And it will hurt her.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>And second, you never know when the guy who has been hoarding preban lowers, mags and 6 Dillon progressives, with all the right dies died last week, and his wife is getting rid of all his junk is just walking into the gun show when you arrive.
[/quote]

So a guy says to a girl, "Will you sleep with me for $5?" She turns red and says, "OF COURSE NOT!"

Then he says, "What if I offered you a million dollars? Would you sleep with me for a million?" She smiles. "Yeah."

The man nods and says, "So we've established that you're a whore. Now let's agree on the price..."

Does the price matter?

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Do you believe in Kharma?
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I believe you sow what you reap. That's close enough, isn't it? It looks to me like Country Boy is getting ready to sow a bitter crop.

But hey, it's his life. :)

pax


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