You know it's going to be a bad day when....

[BRAKIE]

When a 00-80 screw hits the big catch never to be seen again and then you realize you're out of 00-80 screws.

When you dip your paint brush in your coffee or tea..

When you paint a locomotive frame yellow only to find out you used Railbox Yellow instead of Safety Yellow.

When small vice grip is needed to open a bottle of paint.

When a guest engineer arrives to help operate your ISL only to find there is no power and after trouble shooting the layout your guest engineer finds your power pack is unplugged.

[selector]

I'm putting the laser-cut outer walls with cut-out windows over the under-frame, but things don't seem to fit.  One comes close, and I put it in place with glue.  Other walls and windows are worse....something is amiss!  I contact the builder by phone.

"Oh, you got one of those?  I thought there were none of those left on the market.  We printed the walls backward by mistake."

[tstage]

SouthPenn

You are putting rolled roofing on a model, taking great pains to make sure each strip is straight. When finished, you realized you put the roofing on the bottom of the model instead of the roof.

It's okay to laugh.

Oh, I did...but in a sympathetic way.   Thanks for the chuckle, South Penn.  I've been there myself...

Tom 

[RR_Mel]

Your day starts of like that every day when you’re a klutz like me.  Sometimes I wish mine were as mediocre as yours.

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

[SouthPenn]

Your super glue bottle leaked and now the bottle is attached to your work bench.

And then...

You are putting rolled roofing on a model, taking great pains to make sure each strip is straight. When finished, you realized you put the roofing on the bottom of the model instead of the roof.

It's okay to laugh.

I should have stayed in bed.