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November 11, 2006, 03:41 AM
Art & Byron are gonna fuss at me...
Another thread about .22 ammo reminded me of this "hunting trip".
As some know I assist with kids doing stuff like learning to shoot .22 rifles. The unwritten rule is - if you start something with the kids, you need to play it through. None of this broken promise stuff.
Some of these kids in single parent homes ,just mom, and been through a hard time. So we do quality time stuff.
I was being a smart-aleck with my lady friend, flirting. For some odd reason we had gotten in the mood for onion rings. Just out of the clear blue. So we stopped and got us an order each en route to the range. No big deal to show up with fast food or whatever.
Kids were piddlin' with mom's and one grandpa, and the dog and here we two are flirting. It started over her wanting the rest of my onion rings. So I marched out, stuck a onion ring a target with a push pin, and "you shoot into that circle, I'll go back down the road and buy you a new batch".
Damn if she didn't do it. Not dead center, but she did not hit the onion ring.
She stole the rest of my onion rings.
"You kids want to hunt onion rings? If you do what I did, Steve will buy you onion rings".
Wait a second, I did not get this memo...:scrutiny:
"Yeah!"
You don't understand some of them "yeahs" were that of mom's and one grandpa.
This life stuff is about passing forward, having fun, ethics and incorporating Safe gun use. The targets are close, not too close, but just enough the lessons of shooting are applied, and still they can do this.
We have a two year little lady. She does not want to be left out. Big eyes, that lip that gets pouty with a finger on it. Okay, I admit it, she has me wrapped around her little finger ....
Lady friend has saved this one HUGE onion ring for last. "Saving that one for dessert" she said. I snatched it , made perfect sense to me for the littlest person to shoot the biggest onion ring. It is the principle of the thing. I set this target at less than 2 feet, I hold rifle, two year old pulls trigger and she is the happiest young lady you ever did see.
Grandpa and I hit the road to get LOTs of onion rings while the ladies /kids shoot and make fun of me...
Paybacks-
They were passing around a roll of Livesavers, except I did not get one. [being mean to me they were].
No more on the roll, I get the wrapping.
I do my best little boy , pouty lip with the two year old in my lap. "Uncle Steve did not get any LifeSavers *sniff* *sniff*.
Little lady gets those eyes, her lip pouts.
Everyone is up putting stuff up, and whatnot, and they come back and I offer lady friend a Lifesaver from a fresh new roll.
"Where did you get those?" She asked.
Two year old goes back to her Mom's purse gets another fresh roll and brings this roll to me. So proud of herself, just a smiling and all...
Us kids got to stick together you know. ;)
Steve
Another thread about .22 ammo reminded me of this "hunting trip".
As some know I assist with kids doing stuff like learning to shoot .22 rifles. The unwritten rule is - if you start something with the kids, you need to play it through. None of this broken promise stuff.
Some of these kids in single parent homes ,just mom, and been through a hard time. So we do quality time stuff.
I was being a smart-aleck with my lady friend, flirting. For some odd reason we had gotten in the mood for onion rings. Just out of the clear blue. So we stopped and got us an order each en route to the range. No big deal to show up with fast food or whatever.
Kids were piddlin' with mom's and one grandpa, and the dog and here we two are flirting. It started over her wanting the rest of my onion rings. So I marched out, stuck a onion ring a target with a push pin, and "you shoot into that circle, I'll go back down the road and buy you a new batch".
Damn if she didn't do it. Not dead center, but she did not hit the onion ring.
She stole the rest of my onion rings.
"You kids want to hunt onion rings? If you do what I did, Steve will buy you onion rings".
Wait a second, I did not get this memo...:scrutiny:
"Yeah!"
You don't understand some of them "yeahs" were that of mom's and one grandpa.
This life stuff is about passing forward, having fun, ethics and incorporating Safe gun use. The targets are close, not too close, but just enough the lessons of shooting are applied, and still they can do this.
We have a two year little lady. She does not want to be left out. Big eyes, that lip that gets pouty with a finger on it. Okay, I admit it, she has me wrapped around her little finger ....
Lady friend has saved this one HUGE onion ring for last. "Saving that one for dessert" she said. I snatched it , made perfect sense to me for the littlest person to shoot the biggest onion ring. It is the principle of the thing. I set this target at less than 2 feet, I hold rifle, two year old pulls trigger and she is the happiest young lady you ever did see.
Grandpa and I hit the road to get LOTs of onion rings while the ladies /kids shoot and make fun of me...
Paybacks-
They were passing around a roll of Livesavers, except I did not get one. [being mean to me they were].
No more on the roll, I get the wrapping.
I do my best little boy , pouty lip with the two year old in my lap. "Uncle Steve did not get any LifeSavers *sniff* *sniff*.
Little lady gets those eyes, her lip pouts.
Everyone is up putting stuff up, and whatnot, and they come back and I offer lady friend a Lifesaver from a fresh new roll.
"Where did you get those?" She asked.
Two year old goes back to her Mom's purse gets another fresh roll and brings this roll to me. So proud of herself, just a smiling and all...
Us kids got to stick together you know. ;)
Steve
