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Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 03:41:53 GMT
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:16:22 GMT, "rich moberg" <3zero@home.com>
wrote:

In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
[snip]
and 5.you know so much about lego that you can tell whats in a xmas gift
before you open it.

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 see your nephews and try to get them to sell you the old Lego
your mom gave them after you moved out.
9. You have minifigs on your wedding cake.

Next!
Rich


10.  You've emptied out the cabinet under the bathroom sink for room
to store Lego

11.  Your friends from work get embarrassed over your enthusiasm at
the BOGO sale, and tell the clerk at K-mart you are shopping for your
little boy... yet you have no children.

12.  When you go to the mall,  instead of browsing the tool section at
Sears with your buddies you're on a mission to KB toys to be sure they
haven't found any old Lego in the stockroom and clearanced it.

13.  You are Christmas shopping and see parents or grandparents
debating which set to buy their kid, and by the time you get through
talking with them they have asked if you work for Lego, because you
sure seem to know a lot about it.

14.  Your friends want to bring their kids over to your house just so
they can "see all that Lego"


Thomas



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(...) TRU. (...) 15. Your sister in Southern California informs you she has managed to find two of the rare Shell Lego sets and they are wrapped and on their way as presents to your kids, and you lie awake at night trying to think of the best way to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

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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)

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