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Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:05:15 GMT
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, James Brown wrote:
> when I get negative remarks about my Lego obsession, I often respond • [SNIP!]
> "It's cheaper and safer than smoking/drinking/doing drugs"
When I was a teenager, if my Mom and I were on a shopping trip, she'd
often buy me a LEGO set. Every once in awhile, a clerk would sneer at me
as if it were a stupid thing to be buying for a person my age. My Mom
would quickly jump in with "I'd rather have her at home modeling with
Legos than out on the street, or doing drugs, or doing any of the
thousand other things kids do to kill themselves these days." Nine times
out of ten, the person would look ashamed and apologize.
I never went through a proper Dark Ages, thank goodness. Part of it was
due to an extrememly open-minded Mother.
-Laura
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| Laura- Next time you see your mom, give her a great big hug and thank her for encouraging you. During one of my husband's internships, he worked with a female engineer from Sweden who was *beaten* by her father when she tried to play with Lego as a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) when I get negative remarks about my Lego obsession, I often respond with a varient of one of the following, depending on whether the person I'm talking to seems human or not. <friendly> "It's cheaper and safer than smoking/drinking/doing (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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