My wife doesn’t play paintball with us any more. The kids are older, of course, and can play without her worrying that she’s missing out on their childhoods.
Aaaaaand there’s the fact that when they were younger and she was playing with me, and the kids, and their friends (birthday party, I think) she was hit during the game, announced she was hit, held her gun over her head and was exiting the area when one of my oldest son’s best buddies shot her in the butt. That really might have been the last time she played.
I still have a photo of her right cheek and the incredible colors that the bruised turned.
Ouch! But she let you take pictures of her butt.
Cool!! You lucky guy….she’s a keeper.
Oh she has my sympathy…..those things do leave a mark in more ways than paint.
“I love you. But not that much.”
That “Oldest son’s best buddy”? …. Would have received a chewing out that would leave even MORE impressive evidence. That’s not a “funny thing” in my book. Its dishonorable. IF it wasn’t known how badly those paint balls can bruise before the butt shot? It’s maybe a “learning opportunity”. If it WAS known, and done anyway? ….. That A-hole and I would be having WORDS.
Oh, the kid got chewed out- not at length, and not too crazy, but he got told off before he could admit that he hadn’t meant to shoot her. He wasn’t the only one to get carried away that day- even my brother, during law enforcement training with the Park Service, had to be shown that he’d fired more rounds than he meant to in the heat of a simulation. My youngest son is STILL mad that I shot him nearly point blank when we both came around the same corner at the same time in opposite directions. Ouch.
Back in the year when WOW went under and Lasertag stuff flooded the market for cheap, I invested in a bunch of it along with buddies and we were avid Lasertag players. I could let it out and there were the times we got to use the skyway and the empty bramble patch in a semi-private place for all out warfare. THEN. We went to play paintball. Paid the rentals, got fitted, went out there and got a zap in the right kidney. Up went my hands and gun, and I walked off, maybe 30 seconds in, and I didn’t come back. I turned in my stuff and a friend came to check, and went what happened, did I need to go to ER. No. I could HURT someone with this. I could be as savage as I wanted with lasertag because in the end I couldn’t hurt anybody with it. Paintball? I could really hurt someone. I sat out the three hours. My friends came out of the session, talked amongst themselves and passed hat and paid me back for my rentals. Lasertag they’d recruit me, paintball, I’d sit out. Sorry. My technicolor I lived with until the color show went away.