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1.) Half of that brand-new bottle of decal solution ends up spilled on the workbench because you tried to reach over it for the decals.
2.) The tip of your thumb becomes part of that gondola load you just made.
3.) You forgot to scuff the surface of that metal vehicle and the new paint puddled.
4.) Superglue seemed like a great idea until you decided to repaint that hardware store kit.
Feel free to add your own.
1b) … and the solution wets the last three letters of set, dissolving them, and leaving you with a car lettered on one side.
Dave H.
You learn that the force of gravity applies to model trains that are too close to the edge as well as everything else.
You’ve spent 45 minutes on your hands and knees looking for that Kadee knuckle spring on the thick pile carpet, even though you’ve got a whole container of extra springs.
You won’t let anyone see your layout in operation, because you just know that you will break your 127-days-without-a-derailment streak if someone else is watching.
You wear your blue and white striped engineer’s cap, even if no one else is there. Or maybe it’s only when no one else is there.
You just can’t understand why K-mart doesn’t have turf and flocking next to the hair spray.
You’re laughing all the way through this thread.
1-Till you decide to make horn hooks on your layout extinct.
2-Till you learn a 40’ wood side ice refrigerated car doesn’t belong behind an AC 4400.
The owner at your LHS sends you Christmas and Birthday cards.
All the medical staff at the local Emergency know your name without looking at the chart.
Your kids didn’t learn those “bad” words from their friends.
Fergie
Your fingers have many scars from sharp X-Acto blade cuts!
You consider band-aids as an essential modeling tool!
When you start working at 3 PM and finish at 5:30 AM, because it took that long to make a branch line look “weedy” enough.
Until you install the coupler “correctly” and then turn the car right side up.
Enjoy
Paul
You get your kid brother to lick the rails when your DC pp is on full. (I know I’m cruel but the idiot did it!)
[(-D] And [bow] to that! Just think if it was DCC, up to 16 volts instead of 12… [}:)]
…you read posts like these.
Your brother’s lucky you’re not a three-railer! 
[(-D]
Hmm, this is the only kind of hat I own, or wear…I have about 6 of them so I always have a clean one handy. [:)]
I also have a wooden train whistle…BUT I don’t take it with me like my hats. [:D]
Until you get excited and then furious when they announce a model that you just kitbashed…that’s when they announce it you know.
Until you look for a place that has the same item for 1 1/2% cheaper
Refused to pay $5.47 for that overpriced kit
You realize that you have 10+ unfinished building projects
Finally, you realize that you are 4+ years into building your layout.
Say, that raises an improtant question. Are kid brothers DCC compatible? And can you access their sound features on standard DC? Hmmm… gotta test this one [:-,]
Not very likely. (For the reason, check my signature.)
Remember when you got the same item for about 10% of the present MSRP.
Before the price went up to $54.70 and the item went on eternal backorder.
And about 1000 unSTARTED projects.
And aren’t even decently started[(-D]
Watch for the great Golden Spike ceremony - in 2037, if I last that long.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in 1:80 scale, aka HOj)
You’re not a real modeler until you’re wounded in action. I can’t count how many times I’ve cut or poked my fingers while working on trains.
When cleaning up your “stash” you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050![:O]
Until youv’e run 3 units on DCC (I’m a newbie to DCC) and forgot you left the drop open across the doorway . F
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floor. UGH.[:O] Got unit back together finally.