So i'm sitting here in the living room padding and watching tv when I hear a car pull up. Nobody is supposed to get here for another hour or two. I mute the tv and I hear car door(s). Then I hear what sounds like someone messing with the outside garage door. I ran upstairs to grab the gun and start checking the house out. When I walked across the front of the house I passed by a full height window and saw my reflection out of the corner of my eye. It looked like someone was outside on the porch walking towards the door.

I jumped and raised the gun

pwnt.

11/25/2008 10:08:06 PM

only you shooting the reflection would have made that worthwhile

11/25/2008 10:08:56 PM

I'm not gonna lie, I was close. I'm familiar enough with guns to fully aim before I shoot and in the process of aiming I realized I was putting the front sight on my own noggin

11/25/2008 10:10:51 PM

sooo.. what was up outside?

11/25/2008 10:14:21 PM

this is why i could never own a gun. something bad would happen. i'd probably kill my cat.

11/25/2008 10:15:53 PM

Still not sure. Walked outside out the front door (so I could sneak up on whoever it was) and checked things out. No car, no people. Maybe i'm going nuts?

11/25/2008 10:16:30 PM

It's a good thing you didn't fire. If you'd shot, the reflection would've too.

11/25/2008 10:17:06 PM

omg I almost died.

11/25/2008 10:17:32 PM

then who was door?

11/25/2008 10:19:34 PM

I love lamp?

11/25/2008 10:20:22 PM

Quote :

"REFLECTION SHOOTS SELF"

11/25/2008 10:20:39 PM

then who was door?

11/25/2008 10:20:45 PM

Quote :

"I ran upstairs to grab the gun"

Whats it doing not on your person?!?!

11/25/2008 10:24:24 PM

Wow, this reminds me of too many nights alone with the bottle. I never kept the revolver loaded but I certainly felt it would intimidate an intruder somehow. I used the semi-automatic one time when I heard someone outside the door - I snapped the action next to the frame and yelled Who's there? in my deepest basso-suprano voice. After I waited, clicked on the light and checked out the window only to find a raccoon, it took a full ten minutes for the adrenaline to subside.

11/25/2008 10:25:27 PM

unless you live out in the middle of nowhere with not a soul for miles around, you're asking for a manslaughter charge by running to get your gun at the first sound of someone outside your house. use your brain.

11/25/2008 10:27:07 PM

I just came in from cleaning the garage where I had a much larger caliber weapon available if you know what I mean

^and I know the laws. I will not shoot until I see a gun raised on me.

[Edited on November 25, 2008 at 10:27 PM. Reason : .]

11/25/2008 10:27:11 PM

Who says he needs to have a gun raised at you?

11/25/2008 10:28:09 PM

why are you people so scared? Do you live in the ghetto?

11/25/2008 10:28:23 PM

Zebulon.

11/25/2008 10:28:56 PM

^^^^not really

a vacuum hose??

what?

[Edited on November 25, 2008 at 10:29 PM. Reason : ♥]

11/25/2008 10:29:07 PM

Next time somebody comes to the door, I'm calling in an airstrike!

11/25/2008 10:30:04 PM

i used to have really bad dreams last year. i think it is because i let law school get in my head. i have a really vivid imagination and i can get EXTREMELY carried away with possible scenarios. and not only did i have all the crazy crim law cases in my head but i was working on cases for convicted murderers.

but now i'm just like "meh" i am so HARD (like tough, not like sexually. because i don't have a penis)

11/25/2008 10:30:17 PM

No I'm in a pretty nice side of town but it is pretty remote and there have been an abnormally high number of break ins lately.

11/25/2008 10:31:29 PM

meow

[Edited on November 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM. Reason : *horsenoise*]

11/25/2008 10:31:31 PM

I got shot at before and like to see myself as hard, but one day during a nice walk in the park, I heard distant gunshots and I broke down completely. I just have this image of a bullet eternally pointed between my eyes.

11/25/2008 10:32:26 PM

I didn't expect a type of spanish inquisition.

11/25/2008 10:32:59 PM

oh i sleep with a knife and pepper spray by my bed (i need new pepper spray)

but more than intruders i'm scared of a fire or other disasters like that.

11/25/2008 10:33:44 PM

A lot of hard-core dudes actually spray themselves as preparation. Kinda of like they do jail officers as part of their training.

11/25/2008 10:34:30 PM

I'm thinking about spraying myself before boot camp. I hear its decent preparation for the gas chamber.

11/25/2008 10:35:30 PM

It burns, apparently, but wears off after a few hours.

11/25/2008 10:35:55 PM

I keep a donatello staff under my matteress

if anyone tries to suprise buttsecks me they'll feel my wrath

11/25/2008 10:36:20 PM

btw nobody caught my reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A

11/25/2008 10:36:25 PM

yea but do they stab themselves in preparation?

also i have very sharp teeth

11/25/2008 10:37:07 PM

Fawlty Towers! Yay!

11/25/2008 10:37:34 PM

did you file them down?

11/25/2008 10:37:57 PM

so the question is....did you just scare the shit out of yourself or literally scare the shit out of yourself.

11/25/2008 10:39:09 PM

I literally, literally scared the shit out of myself

11/25/2008 10:39:56 PM

Quote :

"t's a good thing you didn't fire. If you'd shot, the reflection would've too."

i lol'ed

11/25/2008 10:41:17 PM

Quote :

"oh i sleep with a knife and pepper spray by my bed (i need new pepper spray) but more than intruders i'm scared of a fire or other disasters like that."

how the fuck do you sleep at all. i'm scared of falling out of trees but I don't even know if my chainsaw works

11/25/2008 10:45:46 PM

ew you pooped yourself

11/25/2008 10:46:02 PM

well i sleep with earplugs so it kind of heightens the scare factor because then i know i won't hear the smoke alarm. and there is only one way out of my condo (well one door) so i have devised a master escape plan.

11/25/2008 10:47:42 PM

What, you keep an axe beside your bed and you punch a whole through your wall then do a triple backflip out the hole and land softly on your feet?

11/25/2008 10:48:39 PM

i pretty much covered up all my fears by tuning my reflexes to superhuman level. saved my ass like 5 times at least.

mariokart. look it up

11/25/2008 10:50:43 PM