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Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Aaron West

(...) 16. If you find that friends or relatives are reluctant to buy LEGO for you, you convince them that "what you really want" are storage containers and drawers like everybody else keeps screws/nails/electrical parts in. Only you know that you (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Ray Sanders

(...) 19. You come home from the club at 3am and decide to check buy-sell-trade *just* in case WalMart started an early Christmas clearance sale (seeing as how the WM- SC is open 24/7) ;) Okay, whos turn is it ? Ray (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Steve Bliss

(...) 20. There is LEGO in every room of your house. No matter where you are in your house, you can see at least one thing LEGO. 21. Your X-mas tree has ornaments built from LEGO. 22. You find practical applications for LEGO. 23. After a few days (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Kyle D. Jackson

(...) 24. You get really melancholy when you see a large pile of Classic Space LEGO being sold on ebaY in individual lots---one for each *colour*. KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Tom Napolitano

(...) 24.01.01 You take early retirement because being gainfully employed was interfering with what you really want to do. (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Andy McKenney

(...) hope that hasn't been mentioned. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Mike Timm

(...) 20. You take and prepare a 3 page list of all the major (and most minor) retailers of LEGO complete with street address and phone numbers, as well the map coordinates for some in the local Hudson's street map book . 21. When checking out at (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Andrew Lipson

(...) 22. Eric Harshbarger admires your work. (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Ray Sanders

(...) ... only 3 pages ? I just checked, my DB (which covers all of FL, and the southern half of GA and AL) contains 650+ entries. Someday I want to add latt/ long to it so that I can calculate radial distances from a GPS receiver :) Ray (who knows (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Mike Timm

(...) Mine is single line per store location with proper formatting, I don't the desire to hit all of my Minnesota and any border areas of the other nearby states. Did I mention that I always have a copy in the car? :^) Mike (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

21?.When you have lots of sets proudly displayed in your office at work. 22. You have some of your MOC's displayed at work. 23. You have a 5 tier metal shelf at work to hold them all. 24. When you move into a new office the maintenance guys say "you (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Jonathan Wilson

(...) 26. You get nothing but lego for christmass but you are annoyed that the shops are closed on boxing day because you have to wait another day to buy even more lego. 27. You ring every toy store in the phonebook to get all of the sets in a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

(...) So you mean it wasn't just me who did this huh? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. whom all the toy stores know by voice. (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Jeff Johnston

(...) Wow...they close stores the day after Xmas? That's...that's downright un-American, that is! 8) We of course don't have 'boxing day', but if we did, it'd have another meaning - the day when you 'box up' all the stuff you got that you didn't (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Kevin Bannister

(...) If you did that, you'd be in Canada. :) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Allan J. Smith

guito wrote in message ... (...) or New Zealand. Boxing Day here is now a sale day and this year 3 store chains (DEKA, Farmers and The Warehouse) had 30% off all toys. Alan J Smith (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Ross Crawford

(...) 28. You get a dog, so she can buy you *exactly* the Lego you want for Christmas & birthday. ROSCO (Just kidding - I actually had my best friend before I left my "dark age", but she does come in handy 8?) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Jeff Johnston

(...) Hm. Who do you work for and are they hiring? 8) J (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: you know you are a true AFOL when... —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

Hmm lets see I AM the supervisor of my department and the ONLY one I answer to is the company prez. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.<--at work right now with his new UCS X-wing trying to find all the bags for another thread. "Jeff Johnston" (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)