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So a buddy of mine confided a situation to me last night looking for some advice. He was pretty rattled about the whole thing and to be honest, I'm not sure I know the answer.
His wife just joined some city league indoor soccer thing. Apparently, she is gone about three nights a week and he was getting irritated because not only is it three nights a week, but it is usually starting at 9-10 pm and she doest not get home until midnight. Many nights he says he has to get the kids in bed, and he is fast asleep before she even gets home.
I know what you're thinking, and I was thinking the same thing. Yes, it gets worse. He tells her she needs her time but three nights is just a bit much and she gets defensive about the whole thing.
Well, last night, he gets home from work and she is wearing a dinner dress and gives him 2 minutes advanced notice that her "soccer friends" are going to have a girls night out and go to a fancy dinner. Without any further discussion she goes outside and jumps into a waiting sedan. The car speeds off into the night and by now he is furious.
He got his kids into bed and decided now was the time to do aomething about all this nonesense and investigate what is going on. He spent the next couple of hours looking through papers, bills, or anything else in hopes of finding out what is really going on. Apparently he found some suspicious notes, and looking through her cell phone bills he found two numbers that were called quite frequently that he does not recognize. One of the numbers has previously popped up on his home phone caller ID and when he answered in the past the other end disconnected.
Well, standing in the living room furious about how to confront the situation, he sees the same small black sedan coming down the road and stopping across the street from his house. Desperate to find out what is going on in the car and who she is with, he grabs his model 70 and cranks up the Leupold to 9X. He later said it was probably a stupid thing to do but his binocs were in his truck and he could not get to them without being seen.
What happens next is a complete shock but I guess it is what it is. As he is gazing through the scope he can't see much as the windows of the sedan are now all fogged up. She finally exits the sedan and starts to walk towards the front door. As she approaches he can see her adjusting her clothing and wiping smeared lipstick from her face with a tissue. He now tries to catch the plate number of the sedan as it pulls down the street and it dawns on him that his Leupold has fog on the inside of the lense. He cannot believe what he is seeing. So the complex question facing him; should he now try and get the Leupold fixed, or go ahead and make this the time to buy his new Zeiss he has been looking at. What do you guys think?
His wife just joined some city league indoor soccer thing. Apparently, she is gone about three nights a week and he was getting irritated because not only is it three nights a week, but it is usually starting at 9-10 pm and she doest not get home until midnight. Many nights he says he has to get the kids in bed, and he is fast asleep before she even gets home.
I know what you're thinking, and I was thinking the same thing. Yes, it gets worse. He tells her she needs her time but three nights is just a bit much and she gets defensive about the whole thing.
Well, last night, he gets home from work and she is wearing a dinner dress and gives him 2 minutes advanced notice that her "soccer friends" are going to have a girls night out and go to a fancy dinner. Without any further discussion she goes outside and jumps into a waiting sedan. The car speeds off into the night and by now he is furious.
He got his kids into bed and decided now was the time to do aomething about all this nonesense and investigate what is going on. He spent the next couple of hours looking through papers, bills, or anything else in hopes of finding out what is really going on. Apparently he found some suspicious notes, and looking through her cell phone bills he found two numbers that were called quite frequently that he does not recognize. One of the numbers has previously popped up on his home phone caller ID and when he answered in the past the other end disconnected.
Well, standing in the living room furious about how to confront the situation, he sees the same small black sedan coming down the road and stopping across the street from his house. Desperate to find out what is going on in the car and who she is with, he grabs his model 70 and cranks up the Leupold to 9X. He later said it was probably a stupid thing to do but his binocs were in his truck and he could not get to them without being seen.
What happens next is a complete shock but I guess it is what it is. As he is gazing through the scope he can't see much as the windows of the sedan are now all fogged up. She finally exits the sedan and starts to walk towards the front door. As she approaches he can see her adjusting her clothing and wiping smeared lipstick from her face with a tissue. He now tries to catch the plate number of the sedan as it pulls down the street and it dawns on him that his Leupold has fog on the inside of the lense. He cannot believe what he is seeing. So the complex question facing him; should he now try and get the Leupold fixed, or go ahead and make this the time to buy his new Zeiss he has been looking at. What do you guys think?
