Don't Shoot Shoot Shoot That Thing At Me

So, my fiancee had originally said she wanted to buy me a new gun as a wedding present - we had gotten our tax returns and were planning on going out to pick it up soon. A few weeks ago, she said, "I decided I don't want to buy you a gun, I'd rather buy you a new mountain bike instead." (something else I had been shopping for). This was fine with me, although I was a little bit annoyed that I wasn't getting the new gun I had gotten all worked up for.

We went to my Mom's for Easter dinner Sunday, and my mom handed me a birthday card (I wasn't expecting this, my birthday isn't for a few weeks yet). I opened it and it had the standard birthday greeting, and at the bottom it said "P.S. - Don't shoot your eye out". I must have had a puzzled look on my face, so my stepdad motioned for me to follow him into the other room, where he showed me my birthday present:



it's a Beretta AL390 12-gauge autoloader - I strongly suspect it's out of my stepdad's personal collection (he shoots trap & skeet and has an extensive shotgun collection). I was extremely surprised, as birthdays usually aren't a very big deal in my family. He said it was a tradition for the father to give the son a new gun as a wedding gift in his family, but he couldn't wait to give it to me, so that was pretty neat. He even found a Beretta baseball cap to give me with it. He said it's probably ~10 years old, but it looks like it's never been shot - I told him that, he said, "I know, that's why I bought it". I can't wait to take it to the range.

...and that's why my fiancee suddenly "changed her mind" about buying me a gun - she was in on it the whole time!