I've never asked my wife for permission to buy any gun, hunting, or fishing related item. Forgiveness...well that may have happened once a long time ago. I may have sold her shotgun but the chain of ownership remains vague.
Seriously I've had the wife's permission thing as well as the sudden...
How about when you carry around a spare projectile in your pocket just in case so you can measure muzzle wear.
Or the employees at the various shops are impressed by your ability to field strip an old rusty excuse for a gun even though you told them you were just there to find sander or old...