So, i was sitting at the puter this morning, Liam decided that he was going to “fix” Daddys track.
There was nothing wrong with the section of track where he was standing so I figured that it was going to be harmless. This section of track is where I am planning on modelling “Red Rocks” on the D&H in NY State. This section of track is at the edge of the benchwork roughly 4’ off the ground. Never had a problem with any engine, locomotive or piece of rolling stock through here even at speed.
OOPS!!!
When I heard the unmistakable sound of flex track unflexing, I then decided that I was wrong & the end results could have been catastrophic had the P2K PA’s had still been running.
I figured that I was going to leave it alone & I would have fixed it later, but no, Liam decided that he was going to fix his mistake & take on track laying today. I gotta give the little bugger credit, he did attempt to fix what he un-did. Not bad for a 5 yr old.
I was totally at either ends of the emotion scale then, both upset & totally proud at the same time
LOL. It’s hard not to laugh and scream at the same time. But the hard part is finding a happy medium where you get the point across that it shouldn’t have been touched and praising the attempt with a show of how it’s supposed to be done.
I enjoy people who use their keys as a pacifier for their restless children. It’s always entertaining to observe the treasure hunt when it’s time to go.
I don’t know about OT, but for me, it matters A LOT about whose kids they are. Yes, with mine, I often have that “should I go in the other room and laugh or should I scold the child” reaction. But that’s because they’re MY kids, and any parenting failure that cause the poor behavior is mine.
Totally different when it’s someone else’s kids. A lot of parents assume that if there’s another adult around, they don’t have to supervise their own kids. Case in point: Cub Scouts. As Cubmaster, I often see parents who just plop their child down and go over to a corner to gossip with other parents, and totally ignore it when their child runs amok, forcing me or another leader to stop helping the whole group and deal with the one child (and, of course, as soon as your attention is elsewhere, other kids start to act up). Make no mistake, though, that situation with your guitar was the parent’s fault, not the child’s.
But to return to the thread… my son just brought me a cup of coffee which he had made. Unfortunately, he didn’t use a filter, so what I got was a load of coffee grounds. So I thanked him, and praised him, and took him to the coffee make and showed him where the filters were and how to use them. He thought about it for a second, then said, “So I’m supposed to use the paper thing under the coffee?” Bingo! Kids aren’t stupid.
My latest “DOH” moment was putting my NMRA track gauge on the track where I was working on the layout, totally forgetting I had a train running elsewhere. I was just testing the breaker, really![:-^]
The sad thing is that I have done the same thing you did, but multiple times. I’ve done it more with Kadee Coupler gauge more than the NMRA gauge. I guess I need a plastic Kadee gauge.
A number of years back I was constructing an N-Scale layout in my hobby room; I had an 18" shelf against one wall. This shelf was constructed below a thin–‘thin’ here meaning it did not have much heighth–window; directly above this thin window I had mounted a shelf designed to hold books which I seldom ever really looked at. One day, however, I did decide to look at one of these books and in the process of putting it back on the shelf . . . . . . . . . .
Remember this Murphy’s Law?: THE ODDS OF A DROPPEDSLICE OF BREAD WITH PEANUT BUTTER ON IT FALLING FACE UP IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE EXPENSE OF THE CARPET! or words to that effect.
A falling 5lb book can do a real job on a Con-Cor PA/PB/PA consist!
I did learn that my wife hated to see a grown man cry!
There’s a benefit to the metal one though - when it’s left of the track, the trains won’t run. Leave the palstic one on the track, and the trains will run - right into it. ANd if Mr Murphy happens to be in the neighborhood, it could mean a trip into the bottomless canyon for a prize loco.
Sometimes, making the best effort to be organized isn’t the best thing. I spent a half hour looking for one of my Ribbonrail gauges. Only to find it in the last palce I looked - the drawer in my cabinet dedicated and labeled for tracklaying tools! had I been my old self and just left it layoing on the layout liek always, I would have found it, but no, I had to be good and clean up and put everythign away after my last work session.
When my daughter Sharon was around 5 or so she decide to play with her Mon’s makeup in the bathroom. Now we did not know what she was up to, but after awhile Sue and I realized the house was awfully quite?
Went looking for her and found her in the bathroom. Besides finding her Mon’s make up, she found my Super Glue and glued her mouth shut! [(-D] I was laughing so hard the 911 operator could hardly understand me.[:D]
That point motor isn’t working. What’s happened ? You check the wiring carefully, still doesn’t work. Yet it worked 5 minutes ago. Check all the connections again etc. THEN you remember to turn the power switch back on ! Bingo, it works.