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Top 10 Reasons Why I Hate This Hobby

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Top 10 Reasons Why I Hate This Hobby
Posted by richhotrain on Monday, October 20, 2014 7:11 AM

10.   For the first time ever, I have noticed that my LHS guy is crabby and the inventory is dusty.

  9.   The hobby is getting too expensive.  Why I just paid $1.49 for a pack of 5 carbon film resistors at Radio Shack.

  8.   If I buy a single issue of MR magazine, it costs $5.99 and what do I get?   Nothing, absolutely nothing.

  7.   Does anybody make a good brass steamer for under $5,000?

  6.   The guys on the other side of the pond have more fun than I do.

  5.   My 60' x 44' basement isn't big enough to build a decent layout.

  4.   Can't someone invent smoke that looks realistic on an HO steamer?

  3.   My DCC loco won't run on my new MTH DCS layout.  Are there no standards?

  2.   No one on the forum can help me with a simple question such as, "My loco won't move, what is wrong?".

  1.   No one is addressing important issues like The Hobby Is Dying or The Sky Is Falling.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 20, 2014 7:26 AM

ROFLMAO

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Posted by sandusky on Monday, October 20, 2014 7:27 AM

hear hear!!

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Posted by peahrens on Monday, October 20, 2014 7:45 AM

I'd add: it interferes with time for golf (equally frustrating), and golf interferes with MRRing.

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, October 20, 2014 7:54 AM

10 reasons why I hate this hobby...

10} For the last time EVER, my LHS closed its doors.

9} The hobby is getting to expensive. Why, I had to file for bankruptcy after I purchased my last loco.

8} If I buy an MRRIng magazine, I have to read the ads, making me buy more MRRing stuff.

7} I have to take out  a signature loan at 129% APR to buy a brass loco.

6} I can't make a realistic looking pond.

5} I have no basement.

4} I am allergic to HO scale smoke.

3} Why oh why, can't I run a DC loco lashed to a DCC loco lashed to an MTH loco?

2} I cannot understand why the forum is here?

1} The Hobby IS dying and I discovered the falling sky was really just an apple, proving Newton's theroy of gravity. But the gravity of this situation is worse when my loco hits the floor...

Tongue Tied

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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

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After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.

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Posted by KRISTIAN CHRONISTER on Monday, October 20, 2014 8:54 AM
If you don't like the hobby, then get the heck off the boards!!! (AKA Reason #11: Too many people with no sense of humor who take it all too seriously) :-)
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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Monday, October 20, 2014 8:59 AM

The toilet seat backs inside the new HO passenger car bathrooms are a scale .0005" inches too tall and no one will correct it!

You can see this if you take the roof off, drill through the door and look at it with a 10x magnifying glass! Haaarumph! Outrageous!

How dare the manufacturer be so neglectful! Time for a boycott! Ok.......whose with me? SoapBoxCryingIck!Dunce

 

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Posted by chutton01 on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:03 AM

richhotrain
10.   For the first time ever, I have noticed that my LHS guy is crabby and the inventory is dusty.


Aha, but what if you found that your LHS dealer was dusty and the inventory was crabby? What then, SIR OR MADAM?

I myself have noticed a general grumpiness pervading many hobby products lately...

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Posted by angelob6660 on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:05 AM

I can't tell if this is serious and funny, but it's good reading.

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Posted by Antoine L. on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:08 AM

While this is funny and not all-true for everyone, I do think the hobby is quite expensive. 

Also, my #1 reason for hating this hobby (there are hundred reasons for me to like it tho) is that I live in Canada, and prices are higher, selection and variety of available products: lower.

Bah...

 

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Posted by Soo Line fan on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:21 AM

Dusty boxes drove many away. Doesn't matter whats in them or the price. Its that darn dust Dead

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Posted by cmrproducts on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:34 AM

And the REAL Sad part of all of this is - it is mostly all TRUE!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:34 AM

Soo Line fan

Dusty boxes drove many away. Doesn't matter whats in them or the price. Its that darn dust Dead

 

 

If the boxes are so dusty, then why are they asking this year's prices for them.

 

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Posted by Catt on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:56 AM

"If the boxes are so dusty, then why are they asking this year's prices for them."

Have priced dust lately?It is getting way to expencive. Smile

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Posted by Motley on Monday, October 20, 2014 9:59 AM

Reason #12

Its all China's fault, bring back manufacuring to the US!

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Posted by BRAKIE on Monday, October 20, 2014 10:11 AM

Almost 60 years in the hobby I can give 60 darn good reasons why I hate this hobby and I can only give you 5 reasons why I still enjoy the hobby.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Monday, October 20, 2014 10:25 AM

Motley
Reason #12Its all China's fault, bring back manufacuring to the US!

Reason 12 is in conflict with reason 9!  Pirate

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, October 20, 2014 10:36 AM

Go see the Bosun.  He'll issue crying towels and keys to the weep locker to anyone who's in need...

Hate is far too strong an emotion to waste on inanimate objects and petty annoyances.  I reserve it for people who wish to kill me or deprive me of my personal freedom.

If the petty annoyances outweighed my personal satisfaction I wouldn't be a model railroader.  There are plenty of other ways to burn up spare time - and, as a retiree, I have LOTS of spare time.

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, October 20, 2014 10:47 AM

Antoine L.
Also, my #1 reason for hating this hobby (there are hundred reasons for me to like it tho) is that I live in Canada, and prices are higher, selection and variety of available products: lower.

So buy your stuff from elsewhere. It is just as easy to shop in another country for less as it is to shop in ours. Personally I am much happier about getting Loco's, track or anything else from a third world country and giving them a hand up in the process. It sure beats sending all those C-130 Hercules full of grain over just to keep these people alive for another day. Canada is a very wealthy country full of highly educated people, so lets do what we do best and help others along the way by teaching them to fish and letting them do it.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, October 20, 2014 11:50 AM

AntonioFP45
The toilet seat backs inside the new HO passenger car bathrooms are a scale .0005" inches too tall and no one will correct it!

Hey, Antonio

Don't I recall a batch of passenger cars that really did have the toilet seats glued onto the wrong side of the bowl (hopper)  ?? Harrumph, indeed!

Perhaps reason 13 should be that the rivet counters pick apart every new release from a manufacturer and scare off potential sales.

Have FUN, Ed

 

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, October 20, 2014 1:08 PM

angelob6660

I can't tell if this is serious and funny, but it's good reading.

 

I meant mine to be a funny response to his..... I thought his was a funny too...

Whistling

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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

 HO and N Scale.

After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Monday, October 20, 2014 1:22 PM

Ah yep! As the late Marshall Sam McCloud would say "Hey, now there ya go!"

All kidding aside, I like this hobby more than ever (inspite of preordering, outsourcing, and the consequential high prices).

I tend to overlook small discrepancies, but in defense of our "rivet counting" brethren, we should keep in mind that it's because of them that we have beautiful plastic models with detailing and drives that rival or sometimes beat 1990s production brass models that came with $500-$1000 price tags Wink.

 

 

gmpullman

 AntonioFP45

The toilet seat backs inside the new HO passenger car bathrooms are a scale .0005" inches too tall and no one will correct it!

 

Hey, Antonio

Don't I recall a batch of passenger cars that really did have the toilet seats glued onto the wrong side of the bowl (hopper)  ?? Harrumph, indeed!

Perhaps reason 13 should be that the rivet counters pick apart every new release from a manufacturer and scare off potential sales.

Have FUN, Ed

 

 

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Posted by Soo Line fan on Monday, October 20, 2014 2:38 PM

Not a.good hobby for the impoverished.  They need to stick to cigarettes and booze. Big Smile

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Posted by dknelson on Monday, October 20, 2014 5:15 PM

Model Railroading is Fun.   

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, October 20, 2014 5:52 PM

Soo Line fan

Not a.good hobby for the impoverished.  They need to stick to cigarettes and booze. Big Smile

Jim, you forgot the wild, wild wimmen!

Keeping clear of, "Sigareets and whiskey and wild, wild wimmen," not only kept me from going crazy, it left me with enough money to buy model railroad stuff.  Of course, the pounding roar of low-cutoff steam exhaust probably did drive me insane.

(In Japan, railfans are called, "Railroad maniacs."  Hmmm...)

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Posted by Soo Line fan on Monday, October 20, 2014 6:33 PM

tomikawaTT

 

 
Soo Line fan

Not a.good hobby for the impoverished.  They need to stick to cigarettes and booze. Big Smile

 

 

Jim, you forgot the wild, wild wimmen!

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with smokeless, silent steam)

 

Lets not get carried away with this clean living thing, a man has got to have a little fun..............Laugh

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Posted by zstripe on Monday, October 20, 2014 6:46 PM

My contribution to this thread:

Jim,

Laugh Laugh Even at 72, don't let the snow on the roof fool you.

Bow

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Posted by russ_q4b on Monday, October 20, 2014 8:10 PM

I hate spending on average $500 a month on this hobby.   What else could I do with $500 a month.   Hmmmmmm.

I could go to a movie almost every night.   ( Most movies are junk)

I could save up and go on a cruise ( I might get stranded, Ebola or some other disease )

I could eat out more often ( the restuarants don't exactly use the most healthy stuff)

I could save up for a home theater ( I'll become a couch potato )

I could collect NASCAR diecast cars ( this could work out )

I could buy a top of the line quadcopter ( I can see myself getting into some serious trouble here )

I could buy a BMW (plenty of people have BMW's so I would not be so special)

Please don't take any of my comments seriously, I'm just having fun here.

 

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Posted by steemtrayn on Monday, October 20, 2014 8:25 PM

I spent most of my money on women and beer. The rest I just wasted.

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, October 20, 2014 8:32 PM

Catt and Steemtrayn:

LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

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