Yesterday I had the pleasure of being asked to show my layout to my wife's ladies Bible study group. I have seen a number of comments on the forum about how rude or what stupid questions visitors can ask. Or maybe they let their young children run wild.
I know this is not your normal group, but they were all women, none of them were train fans or even married to train fans. They had just had heard about my layout from mutual friends and wanted to see it. They stayed for an hour and asked a lot of questions.
- How long have you loved trains?
- What was your inspiration for what you have modeled?
- Did you build the buildings from scratch or were they pre-built?
- How often do you run your trains?
- How long has it taken you to build all this?
- Do your son and grandsons enjoy it?
When I explained that many of the scenes are based on special memories, they thought that was really fascinating. They loved that it was my attempt to create in miniature the scenes where I met my wife, bought my first train set and bicycle, went to the movies as a boy, and etc. They knew of people that had train sets as kids and quickly tired of watching the train run around and around in circles. But this was really fascinating to them. Many asked to bring their husbands and family back to see it. I don't know who had more fun, them or me. Maybe it was equal, a fun day.
Tonight one of my wife's ladies' bridge groups is at our house and another seven are scheduled to see what is going on in the basement. I can't wait.
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