"The Look -- or -- Mail Failure" Topic

My wife has been away all this week. I was hoping a bunch of parcels would arrive.

- The train tracks I have had on back order for 6 months (I just got notification they were shipped)
- The barn and ruined castle from the Battlefront building subscription (that apparently have been shipped from the UK)
- The WW1 armies I bought (that have also been shipped)

All of these parcels will now arrive next week. Which means some time next week I will get 'The Look'.

Schoolboy error – this is why you get stuff delivered to work!

P.O Box…

Oh yes, 'the look'! I know it well. For quite a while, the offending item was just left, silently, on my desk. More recently, the kids are given the go ahead to 'check out what dad has bought now.' Now, I have to say, my kids are very careful (only once have I been required to go through the recycling bin to find a missing maxim gun), but it takes away all the fun of unboxing the loot!

I tried the PO Box. The place was closed when I left for work and when I got home… so the packages just sat there until the weekend.

Find a friend you get his he gets yours..make sure the women never meet. Use the old Cold war spy techniques when either of you get a package of goodies use electrical tape and make a cross on the mailbox or light pole. Sit on a park bench and swap bags use dead drops whatever it takes to counter you're wifes counter hobby programs..be relentless our women are …We are with you in this timeless struggle Brother..If you need to contact me use the header Operation Barcelona…My GF thinks I work for the CIA..Really I just watch a lot the Black List

That sounds like a basis for a good RPGS game….or better yet, live action…..I don't have that problem,she really doesn't care so long as I don't get too many things going at once. Which is good, because I have in the past had like 8 things going on, I don't do that anymore. Anything between 1840 and 1880 is far game. With WW1 having a special interest, naval, air and the hell of the ground war…..

C'mon boys be men. Stand up to swmbo.

Al

P.S. I get the look all the time :b

We need a support group.

Looks won't hurt you, it's only if she ties you up in bedsheets at night and whacks you that you are in real trouble.

I just get: " More tanks?" !!!! Nice to be able to say " No, tank destroyers". THEN I get"The Look".

I can do what I like, buy what I like, because as she puts it 'theres far far worse things you could be up to instead, and this is all quite innocent by comparison'. Try using that as a counter and see if you still get the Look.

My wife is off one day each week and every other weekend.

It is uncanny how deliveries seem to fall on those days.

This could have been much worse….

The look --for-- male failure.

Pay back, shoe/ handbag shopping – "is that new?".

If she truly didn't want you to buy more minis she would not give you an allowance.

As my dad always told my mom when he spent money on books, "Would you rather I spend the money on booze and hookers?"

Years ago I had a friend who did a very nice thing. When his wife complained about the size of a toy soldier coming in he pointed out that half of them were ordered for another guy in the group. Who of course did the exact same thing.

I am fortunate that my wife is very supportive of my hobby In return I stay within my budget Constantly going over "our" budget would not be acceptable to either of us .

I usually advise her that instead of having a more socially unacceptable vice, such as: hookers, golf, hard drinking and strippers) I play with little metal toys instead.