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Your wife comes into the room naked and asks if there
is anything you want ironing, you hand her your latest completed airframe
and return to the modeling board.
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You return home from a days flying with your model
in bits, your wife howls wreaked another model have you darling, you
reply NO it was a young lads at the club and I felt sorry for him
so I said I would repair it for him.
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You build smaller models so that you can sneak them
out to the car.
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Your wife is blow drying her hair, you see a power
plant for an electric ducted fan model.
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Wife asks do you like her new stockings, you think
great, that will filter my paint.
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You use wife's make-up to decorate your new pilot.
Thanks to Paul B.for these new addtions!
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You
get to the field and realise your transmitter is still on charge at
home.
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You
lean over your newly-finished plane to brush off a spec of dust and
drop a screwdriver out of your shirt pocket that rips through the
Solarfilm covered wing .
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You
are making an inverted low pass and then pull "UP" on the
elevator.
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You
have fuel stains on your new trainers.
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Your
O.S. engine purrs like a kitten but the family car will barely run.
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You
see your wife ironing while wearing a thin nighty and it reminds you
of the SolarTex job you need to finish.
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Your
wife wants to buy a new car and the only thing you are concerned with
is `will the back seats remove easily'.
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You
have balsa dust on top of your living room furniture.
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You
keep feeling for the trim tabs on your TV remote control.
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You
have at least three planes in various stages of completion.
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The
neighbour's kids come to you to help them with their school projects.
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Your
kids borrow rubber bands from you.
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You
think R/C flying should be an Olympic event.
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You
have watched TOP GUN and IRON EAGLES more than ten times.
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You
look for the servo linkage and antenna wire on every airplane in a
movie.
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You
have at least ten T-shirts with airplanes on them.
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You
watch "Wings" on The Discovery Channel at least three times
a week.
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You
have ever taken your plane off with the ailerons backbacks and still
landed it safely.
- On the way home from the model shop you spend ages peeling the price
stickers off your new goodies just in case the wife sees them.
- You don't have joint accounts so she will not see the statements.
- I won it in a competition dear !
- I swapped it for that green plane dear........ (the one you wrote
off last weekend)
- You don't tell her you had a bonus, its hidden inside the cowling
- Thanks to Trevor Wootton (who's done them all)