"You must be a paper modeler if...."

[Viator]

When I went to the supermarket today, which stand I visit first (and spent the most time there)?

[Erik J]

While in custody for a mental evaluation, you introduced the examining psychiatrist to card modelling. It did not go well.

[FRD]

If you find yourself rolling your chair back, very, very carefully while you scan the floor for something very, very small.

[murphyaa]

While sitting in your hotel room, you go to use the complementary coffee maker, and discover that the coffee stirrer stick is a small wooden dowel...I'll just use my finger to stir the coffee, and keep the stirrer for rolling parts.

[sprogs]

You pay a grossly inflated price for a cup of disgustingly weak coffee in a crowded noisy coffee bar and ask for it to sit in but in a takeout cup as the cardboard cup has EXACTLY the right cone shape for your nosecone.
(and yes, I did.}

[Erik J]

You have a box of assembled treads for any potential tank model kits you might someday build.

[Sakrison]

Originally Posted by outersketcher

HAHAAHAHAAH!!.. I was JUST sitting and staring at my scarred and sliced up cutting mat. Muttering to myself.. "they just dont make them like they used to... "

You haven't really made the cut as a paper modeler until you've sliced the tip off your finger because you weren't paying attention to where it was on the steel straightedge. (I have made that cut -- twice!)

[murphyaa]

Originally Posted by Sakrison

You haven't really made the cut as a paper modeler until you've sliced the tip off your finger because you weren't paying attention to where it was on the steel straightedge. (I have made that cut -- twice!)

After the "Can of Peanut Butter" and "Running With Scissors" incidents from my childhood, I tend to monitor all sharp objects when within the vicinity of my hands.

[Marco]

Originally Posted by Sakrison

You haven't really made the cut as a paper modeler until you've sliced the tip off your finger because you weren't paying attention to where it was on the steel straightedge. (I have made that cut -- twice!)

And when that happens, you're still careful not to bleed on your build.

Speaking from experience too...

[SMWulph]

Originally Posted by Sakrison

You haven't really made the cut as a paper modeler until you've sliced the tip off your finger because you weren't paying attention to where it was on the steel straightedge. (I have made that cut -- twice!)

*sighs*
been there
done that

got the bandages from it
several times