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When I was still in high school, I had a friend who owned a hobby shop in town. He was a good old fella with a quick wit and a kind heart. He knew how tight a budget I was on and he helped me out by giving me stuff to tinker with on the condition that I displayed it in his store. Well, as I got older I was able to buy my own things but I still liked to bring them up to Buddy's store and show him what I had been working on. On one occasion I brought up a Santa Fe diesel and showed it to Buddy. A fella standing at the counter talking to Buddy just lit in to me, telling me all the things I had omitted, like brake lines and an antenna, etc. I had seen this man at Buddy's store before always bragging on his collection, so I asked him as politely as I could, "why is it that I've never seen any of your models?" And with that, Buddy laughed out loud and I was never bothered again about how I choose to model railroads.
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