Subject:
|
Re: Experience of Frustration - Wife, Paint, and LEGO Items
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:14:32 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
491 times
|
| |
|
|
Wayne & All,
> Well, I'm not sure if this is comparable, but...
>
> My wife -it seems to me- operates under the feeling that she "allows" a lego
> collection to exist at all. Not in so many words, but it's clearly a
> constant nuisance to her.
Heh, I am sure most of us married AFOL's have that same situation, in one
way or another. I told my wife the only thing I wanted in a house was a LEGO
Storage Facility, err... basement.
> My biggest problem is that I keep getting shuffled around. We have very
> limited space, and I've moved from the downstairs to the bedroom, where she
> tends to hit the sack early. I get shoved into a corner where when the door
> is open she "doesn't have to see it at all." The spaces and suggestions she
> has for storing Lego always seem to center on this idea. How can it be
> hidden away in case the freaking Queen of England should stop by.
I have had that for many years as well, moving from my dad's to my mom's,e
ven the condo and apartment I lived at.
> Of course the level of noise it generates doesn't please her in the
> slightest either.
Mine aren't too noisy anymore, too sorted. : )
> We've had a few arguments about it as well. She's currently pregnant and
> once the baby is born I can't possibly use the collection upstairs anymore
> (not that I'll have a lot of time for it at first) but there seems to be a
> no-way-it's-coming-downstairs-again mood and I'm a little perplexed as to a
> suitable solution.
That is a situation to deal with. As I said many times before, when my then
date saw my LEGO addiction, and didn't run away screaming, I knew she was
the one for me. : )
> I'm pretty confident she'd be happy if it all suddenly disappeared. I've had
> to stop her from vacuuming the room on more than one occasion.
Yes, indeed. I have searched the vacuum bag more than once.
> Feeling your pain,
>
> -Evil Wayne
> ______________________________________________
> "There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
LOL! : )
Scott "Not quite as evil as Wayne, but close" S.
--
>
> http://www.geocities.com/legomaniac70
>
> In lugnet.general, Scott E. Sanburn writes:
> > To All,
> >
> > I am not totally sure where to put this, this goes under experience. LMK if
> > there is a more appropriate place.
> >
> > My lovely and gracious wife, Lynn, decided to paint a newly purchased
> > cabinet for one of our bathrooms. I got home on Tuesday, and the house
> > reeked of paint. I found out she painted it in the LEGO Storage Facility
> > (LSF), err... basement. I asked her why she did not paint it in the garage,
> > and she didn't say anything, but it wasn't too big a deal, I aired out the
> > house.
> >
> > I was fine until this morning when I went down to the LSF and moved some
> > items in preparation for my new home layout. I discovered a film of
> > off-white paint on the LEGO items surrounding the immediate paint area.
> > Notables include a brown hair piece and the port parts of the 6542, a box of
> > instructions for my store, and a few other storage boxes. I am unsure how
> > much it is, I moved a lot of stuff out of the way.
> >
> > Anyway, did anyone have experiences like this? I am somewhat upset, but I
> > hope that Brasso or something will clean it off.
> >
> > Scott "No more paint in the LSF, please!" S.
> > --
|
|
Message has 3 Replies:
Message is in Reply To:
14 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
