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Travelin’ man

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Sorry for the radio silence, guys. Real life intrudes as is wont from time to time. Had to fly to Atlanta last weekend for family stuff. Had never been to Atlanta before and…it didnt seem like the South. Or, at least, what most people come to think of as the South. The accents werent nearly as prolific as I was expecting, the weather was gloomy, and, at least where I was, the demographics were rather…homogenous.

When I post about travelling I sometimes get comments from people saying something like “Hey, why didn’t you say you were going to be in XXX? I’d have met up with you and bought you dinner.” Or some variant of that. Truth is, guys, I don’t like to broadcast that I’m traveling for PerSec reasons. You read on the news about how some of these big-time athletes are getting their houses broken into while theyre playing at the Super Bowl or something? It’s like that. So, while I appreciate the sentiment, I just can’t go telling people when I’m going to be away from home.

So after traveling across country in a pressurized tube, breathing recycled air, with several hundred other humans I naturally came down with some sort of crud. At the moment, Nyquil, Kleenex, and my bed are my main focus. I’m hoping this crud burns itself out by Monday so I can go back to work.

And while I’m on the topic of complaining, why the hell doesn’t ‘traveling’ have two L’s?

…but then I’d have to live with myself……..

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Scene: Local gun shop

Him: Hey, we’re getting a buncha used guns in later
Me: Awesome. Lemme know when they arrive.

:::Hour  later:::

I show up an start sifting through the stack. He says theres a Ruger 556 in there. I find an AR-pattern rifle, but its the Ruger 762. Ok, he mixed up the Ruger 556 for the 762, I can see that.

Me: Hmmm…..What’ll you take for the PTR-91 and the Ruger 556?
Him: :::mentions price::::
Me: Hmmm…I’ll give you $1500 for the pair.
Him: Sold!

And I trundle off with my loot. An hour or two later, I’m thinking “Man, those SR-762’s are kinda pricey. Lemme look up the price on those.” So I did. And, apparently, a new one goes for around $1500 :::sigh::: I know what happened. I drive back.

Me: Hey, that list of guns that came in. It had prices with it right?
Him: Yup.
Me: Read me the serial number off the list for that Ruger you sold me.
Him: :::reads wrong serial number:::
Me: And the model number?
Him: ::: reads off wrong model number :::
Me: And the caliber?
Him: :::reads of wrong caliber:::
Me: I think you sold me the wrong gun. Let me see your bound book.

Sure enough. There was a Hawkeye in .223 on the list and and somehow the SR-762 got mixed up as that gun.*

Me: Dude, I really hate saying this, but you sold me this gun way too cheap.

And we figured it out. It was a bit of a headache to clean up, paperwork-wise… The Hawkeye, that never left the building, had been entered as sold to me. So, rather than  correct it we just logged it back in as received from me. Easy enough. But…man, a $1500 rifle for half the price woulda been nice.

But….I like the people there and I’d never be able to show my face in there again if they called me and said “We made a mistake” and I said “Too bad.” So…yeah. Mensch.

* = Here’s what happened. I asked if he had any Rugers. He said “I have a 556” which I took to mean he had a Ruger 556. So I grabbed the first AR-15’ish gun I saw with a Ruger logo and it was the SR-762. I figured “He’s not really a gun guy. He thought it was the 556 model because it looks like an AR, he doesnt know the difference between the 556 and the 762 models”. But what actually happened was that he MEANT “I have a 5.56 caliber rifle in the Hawkeye.” A very interesting miscommunication.