on the back foot...

[boogity]

wonder if anyone has had to defend their hobby, we had a dinner party tonight and to cut a long, long story short I was on the recieving end of one almighty slagging, 4 to 1, funny my wife remained quiet, apart from saying, take them up to the roofspace..
I declined to do so as I reckoned they would take the mick even more...
Ru5ty if it hadnt of been so late I would have come up to get you and even then it would have been touch and go

When I told them I,D watched the video 30 plus times, the place was in uproar, (mind you 30 was a somewhat conservative estimate, but I didnt let on)

[Ru5ty]

sorry I wasn't there chum, but then I probably would have been laughed at too.... You know its never to late for some backup chum and it could have been worse, Karen coulda joined in and had a laugh too.
And 30 views of a great animation is modest in my estimates, i'm close to 100 at least

[boogity]

stu, of course 30 was modest, but I wasnt giving them a 3 figure amount!

[bobbyjack]

Once my son saw Cars for the first time, I think we hit 30 viewings in less than 30 days. 18 months later it still gets played 2-3 times a week. Good thing it is a DVD because I would have had replace the VHS copy by now when the tape dissolved.

[cac1959]

I think having to defend one's hobby is common when you're a Cars-a-holic... When my wife brings up my Cars addiction, I counter with her scrapbooking addiction, which tends to quiet her down... Friends and family tell her I could have worse habits - chasing women, drugs, booze - and that she should be glad I have a hobby that I share with my grandchildren... We don't watch Cars as often as we used to, but my grandchildren and I have seen it over 100 times... they enjoyed Cars2, and I expect we'll be watching Cars followed by Cars2 when the Cars2 Blu-ray comes out.

[bobbyjack]

My wife keeps talking about getting my son a toybox to keep his cars in. As if they didn't have enough paint scratches already? Maybe some of those big plastic display cases could be in our future...