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MARCH 5, 2011 4:09PM

A Shoot Out At The Riviera Corral

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Due to an executive decision on the part of OS staff this week, many posts did not appear in the FPF (front page feed), which Emily stated was deliberately switched from a 4 hour feed to a 1 day feed (actually it was 'stuck' for more like a day and a half).  So here is my Saturday Repost, and I hope you guys will do the same if you feel your post didn't get the exposure the 4 hour feed provides.

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This is a continuation of a conversation  and when last we talked to my 77 year old mother, she was about to confess to a mishap...

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Me:  What do you mean you blew a hole in the wall?

Mom:  My gun went off.

Me:  Christ on a bike Mom!

Mom:  Forget it.  I'm not going to tell you. 

Me:  If you don't want me to tell the boys, you'd better tell me what happened.  We didn't even know you had a gun in the house.  You could have shot Daddy. Or yourself!

Mom:  That's the reason I had the gun out in the first place. 

Me:  ????  

Mom:  I'm not telling you if you're gonna get that way about it!

Me:  Fine.  Maybe we'll be laughing in a minute.

Mom:  I had the gun and wanted to take the bullets out, your Daddy was rambling around the house and I didn't want him to come across it, so I called Buddy and tried to open the thing and BLAM!

Me:    You said you were on the phone with Buddy...

Mom:  He was supposed to be telling me how to get the thing open in the first place. It was his fault the dadblamed gun went off!  I kept telling him it was going to go off.

Me:    Then why... if you thought it was going to... I just don't...

         Good night nurse Mom. What in the world did Buddy say?

Mom:  What do you THINK he said?

           I'm not repeating it.

Me:     What did you hit?

Mom:  I didn't hit anything.  The bullet hit the wall.  

Me:     Did it go through the wall?

Mom:  How would I know? 

Me:    Have you looked on the other side of the wall Mom? Was it an inside or an outside wall?

Mom:  I don't want to talk about it. Just forget I said anything.

Me:  Where exactly did this happened? 

        What room were you in?

Mom:  I told you, I'm done talking about it and I fixed the hole.

Me:     Well, have any of the neighbors gone missing?

Mom:  Very funny

Me:     I think we better get on over to the gun range, don't you?

Mom:  Now that I know it works, why would I need to do that?

Me:     Are you kidding me?

Mom:  I'm hanging up now.

 

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 Thanks to the friends who already came by, please feel free to pass on re-commenting.  Have a great Saturday to those in the GMT time zone and to the Aussies, a great Sunday.

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Cheers for Repost Saturday. I'd love to read the pieces you published this week that got stuck in the feed, like Part I of this piece did. I broke up a conversation with my mom into 3 parts, it's easier to read, but serializing isn't always successful on OS. So here's part 3, anyway....
Gabby Abby
March 05, 2011 04:19 PM
Gabby I had read this the first time but I loved it even more the second.
This should be a Lifetime movie.:)
Rated with hugs
Linda Seccaspina
March 05, 2011 04:26 PM
Rated again, because I loved it so much the first time! I didn't know about this whole feed business.....
Alysa Salzberg
March 05, 2011 04:58 PM
Oh dear, I see your predicament and have no idea what to say. It's especially bad when people have a gun but no idea which rooms the neighbors and children sleep in. There's rarely time to consider those things at the last minute, they have be thought through long before someone breaks in.

Does she have enough hand strength to squeeze off a lot of rounds? I can still do quite a few very well before I start to have trouble. Perhaps you'll find a way to tempt her to go to the range and she'll re-consider. This must be incredibly stressful, does she like dogs? Perhaps you could swing by the pound on the way home.
l'Heure Bleue
March 05, 2011 05:25 PM
This was just as priceless the second time around! Thankfully, you don't also have to relive it:)))
Susan Creamer Joy
March 05, 2011 05:26 PM
I liked this so much I rated and I am commenting again...glad to see we're back to the four hour feed...xox
Robin Sneed
March 05, 2011 06:16 PM
Have I said this yet, that your mom is a pistol? Because if I did I would have added that you are, too. And if I did, I meant it then and I mean it now.
Matt Paust
March 05, 2011 07:48 PM
Maybe you should do the same thing Andy did to Barney and only give her 1 bullet.

(All kidding aside, that gun is way too powerful and complicated for your mom. It won't even function properly without the proper grip. A small to medium caliber light weight revolver, if she insists on owning a gun.)
Leepin Larry
March 05, 2011 09:12 PM
I missed it and I loved it so am so happy you repeated!
Lunchlady 2
March 05, 2011 09:28 PM
You are the one credited for Saturday Reposts - what a good idea that was, Abby ! I don't remember if I saw this - and I doubt I did, but thank you for posting it again. Wow. Your tags alone are pretty scary.
♥R
FusunA
March 05, 2011 09:31 PM
Oh, my. If this wasn't so scary it would be funny. I know zilch about guns, but even I know a Colt .45 is a lot of gun. You really have your hands full, don't you?

This series reminded me of the great posts Devin Mckay used to put up. Great job of telling the story, Abby.

Lezlie
L in the Southeast
March 05, 2011 10:25 PM
Well, she does have a point now. She knows the gun works so why does she need to learn how to shoot it? Certainly she won't make that mistake again, Silly.
Bellwether Vance
March 05, 2011 10:33 PM
maybe you could go over there and take all the ammunition. it would be a lot safer. and i'm not sure she'd notice. whaddaya think? good script, abby. scary sitch.
femme forte aka candace
March 06, 2011 12:00 AM
I had read this first and then went back to the first two. Wow. Soooooo glad that Mami and Papi never went to this place!

Good luck, kiddo!
AtHomePilgrim
March 06, 2011 08:26 AM
I love revisiting your conversations with your Mom! I'm with Linda: this should be a series or a book. R and hugs...without the flying bullets!
zumalicious
March 06, 2011 10:40 AM
You're hilarious! So glad to come across your blog.
500words
March 06, 2011 08:22 PM
Nicely done. This reminds me of my family...
Felisa Rogers
March 06, 2011 11:12 PM
Such a Mom thing...blasting a hole in the wall and not wanting to talk about it. And of course she would not need to visit the range, after seeing it go off...
Gary Justis
March 06, 2011 11:19 PM
Oh my... Very rarely do guns go off by themselves, just as cars don't usually run over people by themselves. If she keeps her gun -- and before she mes across one belonging to someone else -- please start by strongly advising her to keep her finger AWAY from the trigger and not to point the gun at anything she does not want to shoot! Then take her to the gun range on a regular basis for fun target shooting or self-defense practice -- or tell her to get a dog for protection instead.

Possible mayhem aside, this was quite a funny story! R
Natalie K. Munden
March 06, 2011 11:29 PM
I missed it the first time. My question was going to be " have any of the neighbors gone missing? " but you covered that! Great story.
trilogy
March 07, 2011 12:30 AM
Are you sure you don't need to send an armed guard, Hazmat squad to your mom's house? While amusing, this is actually kind of frightening. You may need to tape these phone calls for later.
Oryoki Bowl
March 07, 2011 12:31 AM