Day 3- Double barrel shotgun

As a Facebook friend noted, I can check THAT one off the bucket list. Today I had a double barrel shotgun pointed at me.

No joke.

I work for a very small company, 5 full time employees and I'm the only part timer. We are an investment advisory firm, so if that's not stressful enough this day and age, add a shotgun to the mix. Yes, of course. I work for an INVESTMENT ADVISOR... and I've often wondered if a client would ever go postal on us and show up "a blazin". But that is not what happened today. Today, one of our employees came in with a old shotgun he found in his family home. His intention was to turn it into a police station... but brought it into the office to show and tell. He had left for the day, but then walked back into the offices behind my cubicle. The next thing I know, he says something to the effect of "hey lady" to me, and I turn around... and there it is. The narrow end of a gun pointed directly at me.

Now, I know this guy. And I know that HE knew that it was safe. But for a millisecond... I sure the hell didn't.

Now, seeing that I'm actually here... accounting this story... it's all good. I'm alive... no foul. But, I have to admit, I feel a bit harmed. The only thing I can say to myself is WTF was he thinking???

I've never touched a gun in my life. Except for a BB gun that my Dad had kept at our 5 acre property in Wisconsin we often visited when I was a kid. We would nail a white paper plate to a tree and have target practice. (I was a horrible shot) But even then, my parents DRILLED into my brain to NEVER EVER EVER point a gun at a person. If you ask her, my Mom will tell you a story about how her mischievous older brother chased after her with a BB gun, and shot her when she was ten. When she went to my grandmother to tell her... my grandmother told her "you shouldn't have ran". (Really Grandma... REALLY???)

Now. As I said. I'm on the other side of this. Alive and well. (Maybe even better, because when I told my husband this story, I've never seen him so serious. He did not like this one bit. I was just glad said employee wasn't in the living room with us at the time, because as respectful as my husband is to our elders... he would have had a serious "conversation" with this man. This maiden in distress felt all loved and stuff.) But seriously. What was he thinking?

To boil this all down, I guess it's fair enough to say that sometimes people do stupid ass shit. Sometimes we don't' think. Even a wise 75+ year old man, who knows the ways of the world and who is also a decent predictor of stocks, can do stupid ass shit. Since, this is my blog. And I'm allowed to take whatever conclusion I want and run with it. I'd have to go with yes, I've done plenty of "SAS" in my lifetime too. But never THAT stupid.

Have you ever done SAS before? (It still wasn't THAT stupid was it?) I hope you feel better. I do!