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[quote user="Tracklayer"] You want "real life" bad raps... I took my oldest sister and little nephew out to my train room to check out my layout a couple of years ago. My nephew was very impressed, and enjoyed wearing the engineer's cap and pushing the horn button each time the train approached a crossing. After about five minutes, my sister told my little nephew - Okay, that's enough of watching uncle Mark's train go round and round the track over and over again. Let's go. I was like, what's up ?. My sister replied that she didn't want him interested in such things, and hoped that he would focus his life on more important and serious ambitions!. That's the day I found out what my sister thought of me and my train hobby, and yes, it hurt because in her eyes model railroaders are losers... Tracklayer[/quote]Ouch!  And that's coming from your own sister?!Well, one of the reasons that I got into this hobby was beause my dad took me and my brother into a LHS and bought us some model planes when we were younger.  And we are interested in building model kits at a ery young age and continue till now.  However, when we were about 12 or 13, all of a sudden my dad decide that building plastic models is becoming too childish for us and I remember he got very angry at one stage because we are spending too much time building models rather than studying.  The point is, he got us started in it and then change his mind and the thing is, most people don't realise that hobby such as modelrailroading has evolved beyond toys these days but in most people's mind, it's still kid's toys and if you are a grown man palying with kid's toys, you must be sick and that's the real underlying problem.  My dad didn't know I got back into model railroading and I am sure if he knew, he would be worried if I am mentally sound.Anyway, all I can say is, everyone enjoying doing difference things and have different interest just like there are different religions and whatever and you can choose what you believe in and/or what you do with your spare time but I think it is only fair that people don't stereotype other people's interests and/or hobbies.  And I think that's also the problem in today's society, people are enjoying a new found levels of freedom but at the same time, they also think they can do whatever they want including stereotyping other people and descriminate against others.I know I am not perfect but I just wish people can be more unerstanding towards each other.  See, people are also very smart these days, they all know about the descrimination laws and defmation laws etc. so they find ways around it and try to use sarcasm instead of direct verbal confrontation in today's society.  And of course, this is just one aspect of this multi-faceted problem in today's world but I guess that's just life.So do what I do, laugh at it and keep watching both CSI an Desperate Housewives while I am having dinner on Mondays and Tuesdays.  And when I get sick and tired of them all one day, then I watch something else or one of my DVD's!  At such time, I think the networks probably know they have lost some steam for a particular show and moved on.  Again, that's just another fact of life!  ;-)
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