Joke and Guns..A Childhood Memory

My stepdad owned an auction barn/swap shop/coffee shop and I spent most of my adolescence working, learning and playing in them. My stepdad would always say one man's junk is another's treasure. I do believe that. On the morning news I heard about a woman that had killed her husband by hitting him in the head with a coffee cup (must have been a very hard cup) earlier this year. Anyway for some reason that story reminded me of a Saturday night at our auction. My stepdad was an auctioneer and one night while he was on the podium auctioning off starter pistols. They looked like real guns. He had a habit of stopping and telling jokes, then start auctioning again. On this particular night he told a joke that my mom couldn't stand and had previously told him to stop telling. The simple joke was...

 

 

My wife is a good housekeeper. She's been married 7 times and kept the house everytime.

 

 

My mom picked up the starter pistol and shoved it against his belly and said...That's not true!! I told you to stop telling that joke...then she pulled the trigger. It sounded like a real gun had went off. People screamed..Oh my God!!! Then deadly silence. Of course my stepdad wasn't hurt and he started laughing as did everyone else.  Although it did burn a hole in his shirt!! Everyone thought it was all an act to get people to buy the starter pistols (which they did sell like hotcakes afterwards) but it wasn't an act just something that happened and one of my childhood memories, lol