Famous quotes from your spouse!

after we were first married.... "you need to find a hobby and it ain't me"

"And just where are you going to put THAT?"

"Did you think I wouldn't notice the piles of boxes growing?  I'm an oncology nurse!!"

Chuck

a tender behind?  I'll give you....

"How many trains do you need?" or sometimes "Don't you have enough trains?"

Same thought stated differently.

"I do"

"No trains this month, Please!"

God Bless,

"Pappy"

When are you going to stop buying trains?

"If you really loved me, you would buy more trains"   

Well, it's my fantasy and I'm sticking to it!

You are not buying a train for Olivia (11 mo old grand daughter / 10th Anniversary Polar Express).

so I bought it and put it on my Den Christmas layout instead.

She loves the bell and the trains.

Ditto, except she was referring to N&W Coal Cars. It really got ugly when she asked how many I already had. My answer "I dunno maybe 40 or 50" was not well received.

Gilly

As regards the question: "Do you name your layout?"; my wife had named it "The Mess".

In keeping with the times...

Hi there, Big Boy.

I don't care how much you spend...................Just remember I'm going to spend the same amount on my self!!!     OH, Oh, I'm in trouble!

Fred

"You better have all this listed and priced. What do I do with it when your gone?

"You are not going to buy anymore trains after the 1st of the year"

To that I just responded, OK except for the ones I have pre-ordered.

"Well, at least he's not out in a bar"

"How many cabooses do you need?" She just bought me one for Christmas!

Don

Complete silence,

Brent

Typical comment when I'm unloading the truck when I get back from the club:

"Ah HA!" (implying I've bought more trains)

Other comments:

• "You already have some of those. Why do you need more?"
• "When did you get THAT?" (usually in response to seeing one of my trains on a YouTube video)
• "Oh. You actually SOLD an engine?!? Something wrong?"

If I used her exact verbiage, this thread would get locked and deleted!

Stack

"Can we run the train tonight?  We haven't run it in a while."

(Our shelf layout runs around the inside perimater of the kitchen and dining area.  My wife asked that I build it)

How did I get to be this lucky?

"Your mother would not have allowed this"....

Actually, my wife is very supportive and just says that to tease me.

"Another little train box for you"

After a delivery.

"Are you DONE yet?"

I thought it would be bigger (referring to my new VL Big Boy...at least I hope that is what she is referring to)

The money pit ...

I have to put this in prospective. We have been married for 2 1/2 years, and when we began to date and she first saw the layout, her jaw dropped and she exclaimed " I love it". That has not changed.

Merry Christmas to you all. This is really a fun topic.

DITTO

Don't get blood on the carpet!

Now if I use the other part of my hobby of making loads in the shop as an example, I'm right there with Smoke Stack Lightnin! "You're always in that, (EFFIN), substitute appropriate expletive here, garage!"

Don

"Another engine?! I thought you said you were done??" - my wife

...as I walked into our house with Nickel Plate Road 765.

"No."

"That smoke gives me asthma."

"You should sell it."

"Man!  You have Christmas all year long!"

After another package is delivered to the house.

Merry Christmas everyone,

Don

My wife's is more visual. I run 3 cattle cars from time to time that moo. She walks in

and forms a pistol with her hand and pulls the trigger.

"Your'e buying another train with the money you got from selling the other train".

She was glad to hear that I was selling and thought I came to my senses.  

 My wife has always accompanied me to past York events and she gets to go shopping in Lancaster on Friday's.  My wife would say "make sure that you buy what you want" because she knew that if she said otherwise, the result would be exactly the same. My wife is a smart woman. Men buy trains whenever they want. Slaves do not.