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Re: Lego pet peeve
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Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:13:09 GMT
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To All,
> My pet peeve is the fact that sometimes my hands are too big for LEGO. I often
> have to be careful that the strength of ny own grip doesn't squeeze and
> "implode" a model in progress.
Biggest Lego pet peeve? I have a few, let's see here:
1) Knowing you have a part, and not knowing where it is: (Sorted, unsorted
box, set perhaps?!?!)
2) Buying sets in a store, getting all those weird looks, explaining for the
millionth time about your LEGO collecting
3) Packing them!!!!
4) Dropping LEGO on dark carpet, not finding it for days
5) Dropping models in transit (Train show, storage area, etc.)
6) Missing out on S@H Specials
7) Models imploding while you work on them
Ah yes, the red box car from 4542 (?) Work & Haul Railroad, with the Light
Gray boxcar doors. I was building it, and I could not put the doors on
correctly, and imploded it about a dozen times, grrr!!!!!!!!
Ah, the love of the brick has some bad things, but I am rather fond of it
regardless! : )
Scott "Almost ready to go" S.
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Member, MichLUG, MLTC: http://www.michlug.org
LEGO Index Page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/legoindex.html
Personal Page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/index.html
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| (...) Scott, You should have seen how mashed the stuff I took to Seattle got. Imagine a kit bag (green army duffle bag) full of lego bits. That's about all that was left after lugging it downtown, then onto Kenmore air (hey, there are advantages to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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| "Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:002101c0c44d$cb...default... (...) That's got to be my absolute biggest pet peeve!!!!!! (...) the (...) I'd like to add one more to the list: when your white bricks change over to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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| My pet peeve is the fact that sometimes my hands are too big for LEGO. I often have to be careful that the strength of ny own grip doesn't squeeze and "implode" a model in progress. (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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