# My wife REALLY loves me (anniversary present inside)! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241 "2003-09-28T02:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/1 "2003-09-28T02:06:38Z")
Our 13th anniversary was on August 19th. We exchanged cards and went to dinner - a typical non-life-changing anniversary, since it was nothing overly-special: number 13, and not 10, 15, 20, 25, etc… Well, imagine my surprise when I find out that she had bought me one of [these.](http://www.shooterschoice.com/beretta/ber391.htm) (BER# J391250) I was…well…I was ASTOUNDED. It arrived 3 weeks ago…a week late for opening day of dove season down here in Texas, but you know what? I still think she loves me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/2 "2003-09-28T02:18:22Z")
Holy crap. That’s NICE! She loves you _alot_ ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/3 "2003-09-28T02:47:25Z")
WOW! Nice woman! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/4 "2003-09-28T04:10:50Z")
Beautiful gift! Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![Kieras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kieras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kieras)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/5 "2003-09-29T02:39:18Z")
Nice gift. Although how long 13 years? give it another couple years then hide the amo. 😉 I am joking… Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/6 "2003-09-29T09:59:09Z")
Americans weird me out. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/7 "2003-09-29T11:41:46Z")
Papa Tiger is drooling. Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![mecaenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/8 "2003-09-29T11:47:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > \*\*Americans weird me out. \*\* Me too. I find the idea of giving a gun as an anniversary present to be quite bizzare. Must be that cultural gap again. That said… um, they look like pretty guns. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/9 "2003-09-29T13:37:47Z")
Howdy, to you folks from Down Under. Here’s a way to look at it: I really, really, REALLY enjoy bird hunting (if that wierds you out, well, not much I can do about it). I’ve been borrowing a shotgun for this pursuit for the last 4 years. My wife merely provided a new tool for me to pursue my hobby, which I think qualifies as a sensible reason for the purchase. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/10 "2003-09-29T13:41:31Z")
Oh, and I suppose I should clarify - I called it a “hobby,” which is the best way to describe something that can be outrageously expensive with little return on the investment; but I **do** eat what I kill, so I’m not doing it just for “sport.” ---
**Author:** ![Kickback\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kickback\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kickback_Joe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/11 "2003-09-29T16:23:08Z")
Congrats on your anniversary. You beat me by three days. Our 13th was September 22nd. Although I do like your present, I would rather have what my wife bought me. A 36" HDTV with surround sound! Not huge by todays standards but really nice just the same. Congrats again. We’ll have to compare again next year. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MarkofT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MarkofT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkofT)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/12 "2003-09-29T16:23:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mecaenas \* > \*\*Me too. I find the idea of giving a gun as an anniversary present to be quite bizzare. Must be that cultural gap again. That said… um, they look like pretty guns. :eek: \*\* I got my wife, then girlfriend, a Ruger P95 Semi auto on our second Christmas together. This last Christmas I got her a membership to a gun range, then we moved a month later. :o ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kickback\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kickback\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kickback_Joe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/13 "2003-09-29T16:28:15Z")
Shit! Maybe I should remember that preview is my friend. You beat us by a month and 3 days. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/14 "2003-09-29T19:03:58Z")
I got you all beat, but I can’t tell you what my wife gave me. You’ll just have to trust me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/15 "2003-09-29T21:05:45Z")
Wow, that is a nice gun! Quite a woman who can not only give you a gun but then be ok when you go out and kill doves with it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/16 "2003-09-30T00:02:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DirkGntly \* > \*\*Howdy, to you folks from Down Under. Here’s a way to look at it: > > I really, really, REALLY enjoy bird hunting (if that wierds you out, well, not much I can do about it). I’ve been borrowing a shotgun for this pursuit for the last 4 years. My wife merely provided a new tool for me to pursue my hobby, which I think qualifies as a sensible reason for the purchase. 😃 \*\* As much as I don’t like the whole gun ownership thing, I can at least appreciate hunting, in so far as I come from a locality that was pretty big on duck shooting. Didn’t like the idea much, but accepted it. However, not only do I tend to think of wedding anniversaries as being a romantic kind of day and a rifle is not at all what I’d call a romantic gift, but also the fact that a lot of other people seem to consider the gift not unusual in the slightest, and they actually are envious. So therefore: Americans weird me out. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/17 "2003-09-30T00:13:25Z")
Hm. I’ve never loved a man enough to give him a gun before… ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/18 "2003-09-30T02:38:06Z")
_Shotgun_, **GuanoLad**. Not a rifle, a shotgun. A damned pretty one, too. Not any more bizarre than a set of golf clubs. In fact, _exactly_ parallel to golf clubs. **DirkGntly** : All I gotta say is: _Day_-am! I be seriously impressed! Oh, and you’d damed-well better be nice to her! She’s a keeper! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/19 "2003-09-30T04:23:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tranquilis \* > **_Shotgun_, GuanoLad. Not a rifle, a shotgun. A damned pretty one, too. Not any more bizarre than a set of golf clubs. In fact, _exactly_ parallel to golf clubs.** Rifle, shotgun, machine-gun, I was at least in the general ballpark. And frankly I don’t think golfclubs seem very appropriate either. Birthday, yeah, even christmas, but not anniversary. Clearly I’m in the extreme minority here. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241/20 "2003-09-30T04:34:09Z")
So 50 years is gold, and 13 years is apparently firearms. Duly noted. Just in time, too, as it’ll be 13 for the wife and I next June. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-really-loves-me-anniversary-present-inside/204241.md?page=2)