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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY High Big_girl: After almost 40 years of marrage, I live with the trains. When Bob goes to a hobby shop I always have a good book. I do watch to see how big the bag is that he comes out with. One time in Albquerque, NM the back of the bus was pointed toward the hobby shop, when he came out I heard the baggage door open and then he got on the bus, much later I found out that the bag contained a brass locomotive. That cost him a nice pair of ear rings. One time a locomotive cost him a purebred Belgian Sheepdog. At a shop in California, there was an antique furniture store next to the hobby shop but what I wanted wouldn't fit in the back of the van. I don't model and only get upset if I'm ignored for a long time. The train show is the only place that I've watched him look at an old car instead of the woman in shorts that walked in front of him. At least when he's "playing trains" he's not somewhere drinking or running around. We are at the age where I really have to prod him to get him to go to the group that meets once a week. I WANT MY FREE TIME TOO. Mrs. Teffy [/quote] Hi Mrs. Teffy. So far Elliot has gotten off small--a dinner here and a dinner there but these are in direct correlation to how far he makes me walk to get to the "best shot" [;)] Since we're not married he gets out of the "equal property clause"-for now[:p][:p] As time goes by I find myself becoming more and more interested in all parts of the trains- but I employ the same strategy of keeping busy while he is in the hobby store or we are waiting for a train to come by to get some shots. He knows as long as I am not bored he can stay as long as he wants. Now that I dug up my old 35mm camera (an AE-1 Program that I got for $10 at a garage sale) I don't stand around the tracks while he is looking for shots-I can take my own. With the house the way it is I can either be involved in the train activities or off in my own "inner sanctum" with the door locked to all. I totally understand what you mean about being upset if you are ignored. Luckily so far we haven't really come up against that but the potential does exist. I too have seen more drooling because of "toys" than "tarts" [:D][:D]
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