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Original poster

To be pissed off with DH for building a new railway track for DS?

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 13/01/2015 21:21

Because I was going to!!

I took the last track to pieces, vacuumed the floor under where it had been and I stacked it all neatly ready to build. I even told DH I was going to use a circle at the centre.

He's just started building. With a circle at the centre.

AIBU to throw a piece of track at him and stomp off in a mood? Grin

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CyclopsBee · 13/01/2015 21:38

I used to love building DS train tracks, I think I played with it more than himGrin
Sometimes I we would make the track go under tables etc,

You are right to want to throw the track at him, he's a selfish oaf! DS is now 17 and the box of track is still under his bed Grin

Lifesalemon · 13/01/2015 21:42

Aw, can you not both play together nicely? Smile
Or wait till he's finished and THEN WRECK IT! Grin

seastargirl · 13/01/2015 21:45

Could be worse, you could have built the track and then he makes some small alterations and then declares it his track.

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 13/01/2015 21:45

I do wonder who I'm buying the bits of extra track for sometimes. Blush

DS wants a new engine but I insist on getting track expansion instead (so many more options DS, do you not see?!)

I've made DH feel suitably bad, it's a shit track anyway Grin

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evenherfartsarefragrant1 · 13/01/2015 21:54

YANBU. My DH is utterly train oriented (his job is railway related, his spare time is, he owns a few of those ride on trains). My DD's love their trainsets and have done before DH was around. I love fixing together the tracks into shapes (scalectrix too) but DD's & DH very much see this as 'their' thing now.
sigh. Still, when he's at work and thrir at school maybe I could make an ultimate layout Wink

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 13/01/2015 21:58

Thanks for the train related support. He didn't even use all the pieces. Amateur.

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evenherfartsarefragrant1 · 13/01/2015 21:59

Definitely amateur. That's the challenge!

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 13/01/2015 22:01

I have DS's little friend (both 3) over tomorrow. I may make encourage them to destroy it Grin

That'll show him!

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stealthsquiggle · 13/01/2015 22:01

Well if he has finished, then now is time to accidentally trip over it whilst tidying something, thus forcing you to start again and do it properly.

Hassled · 13/01/2015 22:06

I'm having a nice little moment of nostalgia - when my DCs were little I was bloody rubbish at "let's pretend" and that sort of play, but give me a train track and I was a woman possessed. I used to build complicated bridges out of Duplo and put dinosaurs on them. Happy days.

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 13/01/2015 22:41

Ooo, Hassled that will be perfect to show up DH! Grin

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Lifesalemon · 13/01/2015 22:49

I want a train set now Envy

Blink1982 · 14/01/2015 00:10

A year ago the thought of any train track, with all its bits, gave me the shivers. 51wks ago my 'friend' bought ds a wooden track set. I love it!!! Ive bought e xtras since and im lobinf the idea of incorporating the sodding duplo, perhaps I'll learn to love that too.

Blink1982 · 14/01/2015 00:10

Oh n yanbu

catsofa · 14/01/2015 00:44

OMG I am going to love this. I'm due in April, how long until my DS will play trains? What sort should I get - are there lots which are compatible or do you have to pick a brand and buy only those? Which are compatible/which brand to go for? Apparently DSD who is 9 still sometimes plays with hers, so I feel entirely justified in getting loads of it!

42bunnytails1 · 14/01/2015 00:53

My DF had her DS at 43, So there is now there is an excuse to get the track out and not EBay it Grin

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 14/01/2015 07:39

Blink I'm the same. Hated the train track but (as you can see) have become quite partial to it!

Cat Congratulations!

I had to wait until DS was nearly 2...

Some children just aren't interested though. Maybe just go ahead and buy a set for yourself! The wooden stuff pretty much all fits together (plastic clips on ikea stuff can need some encouragement to fit in the bits that are only wooden). Big jiggs stuff is great. Start saving now...

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42bunnytails1 · 14/01/2015 08:07

And look on EBay. The more you have the more fun it is for older DCs and parents and the more floor it covers the longer it is until you want to wreck it and hover.

Trumpton · 14/01/2015 08:11

I have 2 DGC . One of our downstairs rooms is now known as the "Train Room". Used to be the "Non-specified room the computer is in" < loves having train set up granny vibe >

RumbleMum · 14/01/2015 08:13

YANBU. I would be incensed. I'm the expert track builder round here and DH builds rubbish tracks. I'd be tempted to throw something heavier at his head.

RumbleMum · 14/01/2015 08:15

Tell your DH the ultimate challenge is ALL the pieces AND as symmetrical as possible. That'll give him something to think about.

TotallySociallyInept · 14/01/2015 08:24

I use to also build massive train tracks too. Grin at the time you could buy huge boxes. With bridges and junctions from asda and tescos really cheaply. I was a Mum obsessed. Ds1 has got into hornby trains now. I find it really difficult to resist the urge to keep interferingBlush

bigbluestars · 14/01/2015 08:24

Isn't part of the point to let the child build the track ( with some help if necessary)? Or am I missing the point?

Chandon · 14/01/2015 08:27

let the poor kid build the track!

TotallySociallyInept · 14/01/2015 08:30

Oh dear pc grumps brigade have woken up

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