Messed Up April Fool's Joke

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My girlfriend and I went over to a friend's house for pizza, his girlfriend gets nervous about guns and expressed that she wasn't comfortable with me carrying in the house. I respected her wishes, took off my holster and stashed it in the glovebox, then locked the car.
My buddy and I were playing video games and the girls decided to go to Wal-Mart in the car my gun was stashed in.
Then I get a text message saying "I just got off the phone with the police. Someone broke into my car, I don't know where your gun is".
As soon as I read this, my heart started racing, remembered the day, and thought about it for a minute.
Then my buddy's girlfriend called him and told him that the car was broken into and immediately said "April Fools!", he shrugged it off and we started playing video games again.

Now, for one, I was a little irked that she would joke about something like that, I really don't think that's joke material.
I mean, I wouldn't send her a text message like "I was backing out of the driveway, and I heard a noise, checked under my tire and found your cat". Am I overreacting?
Do you think it's appropriate to joke about things like this?
In fact, she actually has the NERVE to get mad at me because I ignored her text message! :banghead:
 
The local newspaper has pulled April Fools pranks like publishing picture of taken from the park bridge of a kayaker being stalked by a pleisosaur--the Ft. Patrick Henry Lake Monster.

Thats the kind of all-in-fun April Fools that works. (Some of us take the Lake Monster reports seriously especially with touristas. "It was last April, and my aunt was walking her dog right at this very spot on the shore.....")

This brings up a good gun topic: why is a gun in a glovebox or trunk in a car in a parking space unattended "safer" than a gun on the person in a good holster?
 
If you want to keep the air clear between the two of you this should be calmly discussed. I would gently say that this is important that the responsibility of gun ownership and the dangers of loosing it be understood then go into an explanation of why. Remember to NOT raise your voice or lecture her, she will most certainly resist learning if you do that. I am willing to bet she most likely had no clue as to the possible results if this was really to happen. It is even more likely that your buddy's GF put her up to it, possibly to "teach you a lesson":banghead:. There are people out there like that you know.:fire:
 
It was a joke, just because YOU didn't find it funny, doesn't mean it's a subject that shouldn't be joked about.
Just be happy that they liked you enough to try to joke with you.
 
So she's not comfortable with you carrying in her house, but you're comfortable with her taking your vehicle with your gun in it? Seems a little twisted to me.
 
next time she brings up you leaving the gun in the car ask her "what if the car gets broken into??" then explain how the "apr fools day" joke really got you thinking about that. if done tactfully she won't have any ground to stand on other then the normal girl stuff that makes you lose the argument anyway. do you want to be right or happy? you can't have both.
 
I as well take gun ownership and gun safety extremely serious. In that instance, being that it was April Fools, I most likely would not have found it funny but wouldn't have taken great angst toward it. However you do and neither is right and neither is wrong.

I would just explain to her that we all have something or some subject that we don't like to joke about and that happens to be yours. Tell her that you know she did to try to be funny and you aren't upset with her, but that you would greatly appreciate it if she didn't joke about that kind of stuff with you in the future. Problems get solved when we discuss the matters calmly and civilly.

Shawn
 
You're pissed cause your girlfirend got ya.......get over it, or dump her. If that's the worst problem you have within your relationship, you may have found Mrs. Right.
 
Carl N. Brown said:
This brings up a good gun topic: why is a gun in a glovebox or trunk in a car in a parking space unattended "safer" than a gun on the person in a good holster?
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Because the car won't suddenly go crazy and shoot everybody in sight like us gun nuts. :rolleyes::banghead:
 
i have a permit to carry; my car does not

thats connecticut though...your state may be different.
disregarding laws--i would not let some one else ( especially a person wou is not trained and/or does not like guns) drive my car with a hand gun in it without me in it also. had a LEO stopped her for any reaso, her opening the glove box for the cars papers and the cop seeing her hand and a gun--that's gonna make him to high alert. when you carry a handgun you have to think ahead to the 'what ifs' and plan accordingly.

her joke was in poor taste but so was your decision to let her drive.
you both have issues need resolving. good luck to you both.
 
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My own gun-related April 1st story: Back around 1990. when my ex and I were still together, she expressed an interest in learning to shoot. I picked up a Taurus 94 revolver to teach her with, and out to the scrubland we went. I told her that, since it was a new gun, I'd put the first nine rounds through it to check the sights, then turn it over to her. Using two-liter bottles as targets, I was able to hit them pretty much all of the time from about ten yards. I reloaded the gun for her, and she took over. Nothing. Nada. Couldn't even see bullets hitting anything, not even the ground. I reloaded again, took another turn myself, and did as I should have. More holes in the bottles. Reloaded for her, and again, those bottles were feeling pretty safe. Just as she was pondering some dejection, I clued her in on that it was the first of April, and I was having a little fun with her. Each time I loaded the revolver for her, I was loading it with blanks! She was a good sport, and went on to have quite some fun with that gun, my 10/22, and live ammo..
 
The whole thing did irritate me, as I know it was meant to be harmful and not be an innocent joke (we've lived together for quite some time, we know each other very well).
The thing about it, is she had the nerve to get MAD because I didn't fall prey to her joke.

To clear a few things up, the car was not mine, the girlfriend insisted on taking her car that night. I was not aware they were taking her car, as there were about 4 other vehicles (friend has a lot of cars lol) and I had made the assumption that they were taking my friend's girlfriend's car.
She was fully aware it was there, as I had asked her for her keys to put it there prior, since my friend's girlfriend is not comfortable with guns.
And she caught me printing, as she knows to look. She's been around me CC or OC at my own home, and I assume was looking right at my hip when I stood up from sitting on the couch.
 
You have every right to be upset. She should have known better than to take her car if your gun was in the glove box. She should have known better than that. What if she had gotten pulled over with a loaded gun in the glove box. I don't know what your state laws are but some places she could have gotten arrested. She shouldn't have that car and she shouldn't have made that joke. I would also avoid your friends girlfriend, if she has a problem with you carrying and is looking to see if you are then I wouldn't want to be around her. She might make a stupid comment at the wrong time.
I have a buddy that pulled something like that with his girlfriends step dad. The couple works together someplace (not going to mention names) that doesn't allow concealed carry. Her step dad carries everywhere, regardless of whether he can legally or not. He went into my friends work and my buddy made a point to point out the no firearms sticker on the window to him. I try my best to follow my states laws but if for some reason I ended up someplace that I wasn't supposed to be carrying (someplaces are not clearly marked, the place I am talking about has those clear stickers on slightly tinted windows. You really need to look to be able to see them and even then its hard to find) I would hope someone I knew didn't run up and yell that I shouldn't be carrying there.
 
I think his girlfriend likes you, and plays it off by convincing herself she gets mad at you over the gun and you not responding to her text. But that's an aside.

No, it's not funny. Most April Fool's pranks are not. It's the worst "holiday" in existence.
 
You should have sent her a text message "Don't bother coming back, we're through", and see how she likes it.
 
next time she brings up you leaving the gun in the car ask her "what if the car gets broken into??" then explain how the "apr fools day" joke really got you thinking about that. if done tactfully she won't have any ground to stand on
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Ordinarily I'm pretty cool with pranks, especially ones that are pulled on other people, but in this case, that's really not alright. Not even considering how dangerous and valuable guns are, the one and only reason you didn't have it in your direct control was because you were being considerate of your buddy's girlfriend's (not well thought out) wishes.

In the future just don't tell her you're carrying (I'm guessing you aren't OCing) and if she asks just tell her you don't feel safe leaving your gun out of your direct control where it could easily be stolen, so you (your call, she's only got about a 35-40% right to know/say in the matter in my opinion) either tell her you left it at home in the safe or are not leaving it anywhere out of your control. Like in your waistband in it's proper holster where it belongs.
 
What rstull85 said, that happened to me. I had started packing my car for a range trip, had my CCL and everything, so I just put two of my pistols in the console and glove box, loaded and in holsters, and my ex real quick-like got an emergency call from her sister in another town and hopped in and jetted.

Then she tailgated a dumptruck and didn't stop immediately (almost a half mile) when an officer tried to pull her over, and my pistols got confiscated. I got them back eventually, which is nice because by that point we were already through and even though $$$>guns in every way in my life at this point, the officer was considerate enough to call me and ask if I wanted to release them to her when she showed up and tried to get them from the locker.

I didn't say yes to that one.
 
You guys need to loosen up a bit.......A good bit

Just recognize it for what it is.....a joke......then use it to your advantage.

"I have to keep my gun on me, you've shown me I can't trust you with it"
 
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