You're not a real modeler until.......

[Blue Flamer]

you wake your wife up in bed about a idea you have for the layout, and ask her opinion on it. 

 

Did this many years ago, but it was about food. I was on the 4 - 12 shift as a Gas Co. Serviceman and I got a late call to turn the gas back on in a classy restaurant after a minor fire in the exhaust vent. After I got all the equipment back on, the Chef sat me down and asked if I would like an order of Garlic Escargo in butter and a coffee as he had two orders made up and due to the long wait, the customers had left. I told him that I had never tried them. He said, "you'll like them". He sat me down at the Chefs Table in the kitchen and at 1:30AM I tried my first Escargo. One word, DELICIOUS. After mopping up all the melted butter with the crusty bread the chef came over and asked how they were and I told him. He said there is another order keeping warm if you want it. So down went another order of Escargo, crusty bread and coffee.

When I got home at gone 2:30AM, I woke the wife and told her what I had tried and that she was going to have to try them the next time we went out. She was NOT amused. You see, she had to get up at 6:30AM to go to work.

She got even with me though. She had always loved raw oysters on the 1/2 shell and was always trying to get me to try them. UGH! So she would try Escargo, but only if I tried raw oysters. Now we are both addicted to both of them.

BUT, she has still not forgiven me for waking her up at 2:30AM+ to tell her about the Escargo.

Blue Flamer. 

[easyaces]

You have'nt run the layout in a few days ,and when you do you find  mice, spiders, etc., have nested or set up shop in one of your tunnels and on a runthru you suddenly have passengers !

[stokesda]

Just remembered a few more:

You spend more on your model railroad annually than most third world countries spend on the real thing.

Your tax refund check arrives on the same day as the new issue of Model Railroader... and you open the magazine first.

You show your layout to friends, and the first thing they say is "How long did it take you to build this?" followed shortly by "How fast can it go?"

(Disclaimer: all of these were from a previous thread from a couple of years ago called "You might be a model railroader if," so I can't take credit for their originality. Same for the first two ones I listed on my previous post - forgot to mention that the first time! )

[TheK4Kid]

When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!

Glad to know I.m not the ONLY ONE to have this problem! LOL!

TheK4Kid

[Anonymous]

untill your local hobby shop has a Tab for you

[sleeper33]

1,your office desk drawers ar full of kits, paint mr mags and rollingstock

2. you run a switching layout on your bosses desk

3. a display case in work contains finished kits from no. 1

 

(all True)

Gav

[trainfan1221]

You have'nt run the layout in a few days ,and when you do you find  mice, spiders, etc., have nested or set up shop in one of your tunnels and on a runthru you suddenly have passengers !

If this is happening then you have a slightly bigger problem than not running your layout for a few days.

[Packer]

You spend more on trains in one day than you ever did on a girlfriend in 6 months. (guilty, I spent 180 in a day, I only spent 60 in 6 months for my ex-girlfriend)

And now you know why she is the ex....

Actually, I dumped her. She just got mad about it.

You have more engines than your mother has shoes. (Never will be guilty, I doubt all of us put together has more shoes than her [I have 11 locomotives, she has 3 closest full of shoes, in addition to a garage of them {which is why I don't have a layout anymore, the shoes took it over}])

Your mother is Imelda Marcos?

How did you know (she was philipino)?

You have at least 1 sound-equipped loco (became guilty a week ago)

[electrolove]

...you modeled the Rio Grande in HO scale :-)

[Packer]

...you modeled the Rio Grande in HO scale :-)

About half my fleet is Rio Grande (GP40, FT-ABA and FT-ABB sets)

[Anonymous]

you spend more time in your train room then at work

[nscaler711]

.........you decide to super-detail a super-detailed locomotive! XD

or when you finaly decide on switching eras, and coasts right after you have built your east coast layout and paid $1000's on frieght cars (yea i did that, i now model Modern UP.....after i did the whole 70's CR.....and early CSX...... )

[highhood63]

In a dead sleep you mumble. "Train...Train" smile really big and continue sleeping.

 I actually did this one night acording to my wife.

[Buddah]

you have done everything you can think of in the model world, and now the only thing you dream of is.........

How can I get my hands on the real thing?

Would I get a tax break if I opened a Train museum?

Can I build a spur off my closest branch line to my backyard? 

[moelarrycurly4]

...Your tax refund check arrives on the same day as the new issue of Model Railroader... and you open the magazine first......

 

 

Guilty

[steemtrayn]

...you've built a westwood kit.