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.
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.
Oh, I did…but in a sympathetic way. [:D] Thanks for the chuckle, South Penn. I’ve been there myself…
Tom
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.”
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.
Days can get ruined even when you don’t drop and/or lose screws:
You have a project that requires 8 special size screws. You place an online order for 10 screws (because you’re extra careful and want to make sure you have enough). You wait a week and they finally show up. You cheerfully take up the project. You immediately discover that you somehow miscounted and that you need 12 screws. Dang!
Robert
You know it’s going to be a bad day when…
There is yet another of umpteen whimsical, only nominally train related topics started on MR forums. [oX)]
Jim,These topics are fun and needed far more then the baited topics that leads to disagreements even though there are as many ways to do things in this hobby as there is modeling styles…
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Please allow me to ruin this thread then… I am going to disagree with all of you!
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I had a terrible drive to work this morning, we had an unusually stressful day in the office. It is 7:15 PM and I am still in my Tampa office. And, HR just dropped another “to do” onto my inbox, and I am not yet prepared for the safety meeting tomorrow morning. THIS is a terrible day my friends.
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Any “terrible” day model railroading is better than any day like today.
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At this point, spilling super glue everywhere seems like a great day! Want to trade?[:(]
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Seriously… keep the responses coming… I have enjoyed this thread.
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-Kevin
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A terrible day model railroading is better than the best day at work…unless you work in the model railroading industry. [:D]
Don’t feel bad guys when you do something bass ackwards. That happens to me quite frequently. I gotta say it usually happens the later part of the day than in the morning when I’m fresh. It happens when I’m tired and that dyslexia sort of thing sets in.
Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, who is a professional humorist, says 1/3 of people don’t get humor just like the way some people (like Adams) can’t tell the difference between rot gut wine and good wine. My wife is like that. If I looked her in the eye and said dinner was terrible and I’m going to a strip joint, she would believe it,… at least for a moment.
I suppose in the ideal forum there would be 100% information (signal) and no nonsense (noise) In the real world most of us, or at least those of us with a sense of humor, don’t live in a all business all the time mode. Humor is a part of our life and that kind of attitude spills over in these forums.
The one thing I don’t understand is this:
I need a LARGE vice grip, a grunt and the sound of gas leaking from somewhere behind me.
Today was a good day on the layout construction until I tried to push a rail nail in backwards - twice! Since I am on blood thinners the two holes took some time to stop bleeding - may have blood stains on a couple of boxcars but I’ll check in the morning. So much for playing my ukulele this evening! DJ
P.S. Maybe I should get one of those sewing thimbles. Hmmm.
Yup. After that concept. I would like to rephrase my quote from don’t feel bad guys if you do something bass ackwards to you got to laugh when you do something bass ackwards.
Sometimes Up Is Down.
Yep. Sucks to get old.
Yeah it does. Little puncture wound pain lingers on for a while and takes awhile to heal at our age.
But you got to laugh though.
PS Put your visor on when you’re dealing with those little nails.
Oh I laughed … The first time! And I’m laughing now. 
You run live coal loads, and promptly run said coal train the wrong way through a closed turnout…
I run live coal loads too. Not looking forward to the day I do that - and I will! LOL
You laughed the first time and you’re laughing now but I bet you didn’t laugh the second time.
I remember 35 years ago pushing the little track connectors on my n scale track. It usually worked cuz my fingers were so calloused working with my hands all the time. A few times those little track connectors busted through my calluses into my finger, oh man it hurt. Yup, a little wider slice.
Had to laugh… Then I found my Moms sewing thimble.