getting ready

[woundedbear]

my friends have a scout race coming up and have asked me to help build their cars. they did OK last year but his boy wants to do better and they heard that i love this stuff.
so here are a couple things i noticed that struck me funny
1. when the dads see my shop and all the stuff i have that is for derby racing (wood for cars, all the wheels, good and bad, all the axles and all the tools, stuff i no longer use if you get my drift.) they immediately start to give me crap about all the stuff and all the money i must have spent.

2. then at some point in the conversation they realize that i have learned more about building the car than they have browsing the internet and watching you tube. or at least i seam to know what i am talking about. and they start to pay closer attention. if they only knew how far i have to go still. any ways those two points in the conversation strike me funny i don't know why.

here are some pics for fun of the boy and his dad

he likes the x-men design

 

[561 racing]

Nice job, looks great. I get that same look from dads as well.

 

[bracketracer]

People always get that look when it finally hits them that they're staring at an addict.

 

[Chief]

Hello my name is Chief and I am a PWD addict. I was told this was the place to go for rehab...
HAHAHAHA

 

[ngyoung]

Yeah I still kind of downplay how big into PWD I have gotten when I have been helping other dads in scouts.

 

[Mojo Racing]

This is rehab???? I thought this is where I go to get my fix ! ! ! !

 

[woundedbear]

i just hope my wife and my friends dont have an intervention. i already got the "this is getting alittle out of hand" speech from my use to be understanding wife

 

[Mojo Racing]

Haha ! ! ! My wife just bought a new sewing machine and it didn't cost as much as my last order from DD4H...

wait... that isn't making a good point for me... LOL

 

[Chief]

Just remind your lovely wife, about all the other MORE expensive, time consuming away from home hobbies that you could have enjoyed, but pinewood derby is a family fun hobby and it reminds me of all the father son time we have had...
Good luck my friend...Let me know if she buys that stuff haha

 

[Mojo Racing]

As I was reading that, I got the "yeah, right!" look.... /images/boards/smilies/rofl.gif

She ain't fallin for that one.

 

[BulldogRacing]

Hello Chief, I'm Bulldog and I'm an addict.

 

[NeedforSpeed]

Has anyone ever gotten divorced because of their obsession with PWD?.....a friend wants to know /images/boards/smilies/wink.gif

 

[Guest]

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[HurriCrane Racing]

My name is HurriCrane and I'm an addict. It all started when I met DD4H. He is such an enabler!!!

 

[OPARENNEN]

After all my kids left the home, I took over four basement rooms with a different set of Pinewood tools, track, tuning table, etc., in the various rooms. When my wife started mumbling "obsession, obsession", I took her to my garage and showed her 3 Porsche engines, a Porsche 916 transmission, and about 20 boxes of Porsche parts, and said: Maybe you are right, this old hobby was more fun anyway! All of a sudden, she became a Pinewood Lover!

 

[Kinser Racing]

Has anyone ever gotten divorced because of their obsession with PWD?.....a friend wants to know /images/boards/smilies/wink.gif

If that has or does happen there are many more underlying issues.

 

[BulldogRacing]

apply the principals you learn here to your marriage. First goal sub 3! Move on from there. I was getting flack on all the $ spent and opa hit that subject. I went out to our storage building and pulled out any tool I have not used in 3 years, sold it, and funded more of my addiction. One thing is true about this addiction, it's a damn wholes om one! Aside from the proposed avatar for Mr. Chips. LOL. Opa, how many car bodies could you buy for the price of an engine?

 

[B_Regal Racing]

Has anyone ever gotten divorced because of their obsession with PWD?.....a friend wants to know /images/boards/smilies/wink.gif

If that has or does happen there are many more underlying issues.

I'm really assuming this all was in jest.

 

[Kinser Racing]

Has anyone ever gotten divorced because of their obsession with PWD?.....a friend wants to know /images/boards/smilies/wink.gif

If that has or does happen there are many more underlying issues.

I'm really assuming this all was in jest.

What I was saying is that, people aren't going to get divorced JUST because of pwd. There will be other additional reasons for the divorce.

My wife has referred to herself as a pwd widow at least once.

Pwd would just be the icing on the cake so to speak. There are a lot of other things I could do that are more expensive, more time consuming, in a far less wholesome environment. At least here I'm learning about physics and tribology.

 

[B_Regal Racing]

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Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear. It is a branch of mechanical engineering and materials science.

<Had to look that one up>
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