I am Lucky

[burgerbern]

I had a surprise today, my wife purchased 3 train packs in readiness for our wedding anniverary next month (our 38th) so i will next month have the original Monon pack to add to the pack 2 i purchased the other day, plus the DRGW passenger set and the 1953 ATSF Chief passenger set, that has helped me to bridge the gap a bit as i was falling behind with wanted BLW purchases after buying a new PC in June so now i have less to catch up on.

[rfranzosa]

You have a wonderful wife!!!

[burgerbern]

She is indeed, the big surprise is how she managed to do it, i always thought she was not paying attention when i was saying which packs i still wanted to buy, seems she was taking notes.

[bandorr2000]

Mine did the same thing many years ago when she bought me the RailDriver for Christmas. Didn't have a clue she knew. Aren't they wonderful.

[rfranzosa]

My favorite (goes back to when my wife and I were dating). In her apartment, she had an authentic caboose lantern that her roomate, Anne, had left behind when she moved out. I asked her if she could ask Anne if I could have it.

She told me later that the two of them had a huge fight over it, and that Anne had taken the lantern with her.

On Christmas morning, the lantern was gift-wrapped for me, under the tree.

She tried it once since. There was this mandolin at a local music store that I wanted. She told me to go get it, if it was that important to me. I went back to the music store, but it had been sold. A week later (just before Father's day), I found a charge from the music store on the VISA bill. She made me promise to act surprised when I opened the gift in front of the kids

Rick

[burgerbern]

well she excelled herself yesterday, as many of you will know my wife is disabled and has to use a wheelchair, she also has a 4 wheel mobility electric scooter, one of our grandaughters is staying with us this wek and we decided to go to a local park and have a picnic lunch so the grandaughter could play in the playground afterwards, in the same park there is a BMX track all surfaced nicely just like the roads, well my wife everytime we have passed it kept on wanting to take her electric scooter over the course and while i was looking after the grandaughter in the play area she sneaked off to have a go despite me saying it was not a good idea, 20 mins later a lad comes cycling furiously over to say she had had an accident, we hurried over and from a distance all i could see was a group of youngsters and in the middle the front wheels of the scooter not on the ground but pointing vertically up, she had tried to go over a short but very steep bump (over 45degrees ) and failed so she had a few goes going faster each time, on the fourth attempt he slid back and the chair flipped backwards so it ended up with the seat back and my wife parrelel to the ground and the chair vertical rather than horizontal, i sorted it all out and got her back in the chair and we went home as the back of her head was bleeding, once there i had to take her up the hospital to have her head checked and for them to glue the scalp skin back together.

i wish she would grow up and act her real age rather than her shoesize age.

[hiball3985]

I'm glad your wife is ok after that experience. But I'm with her on this one, GO for it. It sounds like a good set of wheelie bars on the back would solve her problem.

Jim

[conductorchris]