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Subject: 
you know you are a true AFOL when...
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:51:35 GMT
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1.you go halfway across town in summer heat hoping to find the last copy
of a discontinued set.

2.you sit in bed and read lego catalogs.

3.all you ask for for xmas is lego.

4.you not only ask for lego for xmas, you have a specific list

and 5.you know so much about lego that you can tell whats in a xmas gift
before you open it.



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  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes: [snip] (...) 6. You go grocery shopping and find the display of promotional Lego and need another shopping cart. 7. You aren't afraid to admit the sets are for yourself in the checkout at TRU. 8. You go to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
(...) ROFLMAO! That's me. I sent out an email with all set #s, as well as wish lists from eToys and Lego shop at home. (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
(...) Or drive for more than 80kms to a LEGO outlet store to find special sets, and did not buy anything big because 1) the code pilot is much weaker than the RCX, 2) You already bought the 8458 at a much better price, and 3) they don't have service (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
(...) Guilty on all counts as charged: 1) I've been known to scour the city's blighted K-Marts for miles and miles in search of a good bargain. (If you've ever experienced a Houston August, in traffic, without air-condition, then you have a pretty (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
(...) Gotta disagree with this one. I just said "Lego is always nice." on the assumption that any Lego is good Lego. :) Of course, if I wind up with Duplo Mickey Mouse sets, I may be more specific next year... -JDF (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
(...) ... and wish you had more catalogs!! You travel (miles) back to the shop whose inventory you know off by heart just to check whether THAT set is really THAT price and does include THAT piece/fig. You stand in the shop and mull over a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
(...) ....... 2?. When you go to the store to get whatever, spy something new you would like or need (non-lego) and think of how much in lego you can buy for whatever the item may cost. ( I am a victim of this :o) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
 
...29. you stay up until half past three in the morning just to place your auction bid approx. 5 seconds before the ebay auction closes in a time zone you never had heard of before..... Arnold (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

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