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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: shawnzilla on November 11, 2004, 02:51:20 pm
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Wow, I just had an interesting conversation with my wife.
I was complaining to her that my friend who is helping me build my latest machine hasn't been around for a couple of weeks. She said, "I wouldn't mind helping you."
I was floored! She's been supportive of my BYOAC obsession, but I didn't realize that she wanted to take part in building it with me.
What a great way to get spousal approval of arcade machines...ask them to help you with construction! If only I had thought of that months ago. :-) I wonder if the same principal would work for a big screen tv..........
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ME: Hey honey. Want to help me pick out a new 65 inch lcd widescreen.
Wife: Sure, as soon as you help me pick out a new husband and prep the couch for you to sleep on it.
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ME: Hey, let's go to Toronto.
WIFE: Why, is that stupid Arcade Auction on again? Your not being anything else home.
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Well, I guess i'm lucky, she thinks I'm insane, but still likes helping me out. I remember one day ...
ME: I guess I'll go with the defender type cabinet.
WIFE: If you are going to build one, build a cool one, like that *points to dynamo showcase cabinet*
ME:........ I love you.
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ME: I want to go to the lumber yard on Saturday to pick out wood for my cabinet
WIFE: Your daughter is going to grow up not knowing who her father is because of your stupid projects
Kill me.
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not married yet
but uhh
me: lets go find a cab for my driving one i've wanted to make for a while
gf: ok do whatever, just leave me the dreamcast with genesis emulator for sonic.
lol
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Me: I think I'm going to build an arcade cabinet.
Wife: Cool. After that you can buy me a pinball machine.
Sweeet..... 8)
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Her: Guess what I bought today hon
Me: Oh I couldn't possibly, oh ok shoes, handbags and make up?
Her: Oh my god you know me so well
Me: Yeah
Me: Guess what I bought today hon
Her: Well it better not be another #$%&$ arcade machine or you're dead meat!
LOL
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Hmmm, of the various girls I would like to marry.
#1. "I like Skee Ball".
#2. After 4 hours at a party at my house asks if I have a driving game, and then plays it once.
#3. (Not too interested in her anyway). Won't play any games, but likes to watch,
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I think there are women out there, wives and girlfreinds who would like to help their men out with building cab's.... but you better think seriously about it tho' coz if she helps you build it you may not get her off playing it :P But hey then at least you will have an excuse to build another cab.
I am building an upright cab at present. I guess all those years of being the only girl in my highschool wooodwork classes paid off.
So I'm building the cab, need my hubbys help but he just wants to keep playing it. Hmmm I thought it was supposed to be the other way around ;)
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My girlfriend has been helping me build my bartop the entire time. She also bugs me about when I'll have time to work on the upright, and will ocassionally ask me to play a game of Xmen with her (which is what the current upright is).
I think I'll keep her :)
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hey and I was just thinking I was the lucky one
Her: so what are you going to do with this cocktail cabinet?
Me: oh I don't know fix it up and sell it I guess
Her: why can't we just keep it and put it in the front room
Me: <gasp> you so rock
Her: it's so true...
conversation last night after she finished staining the cabinet. I'm so lucky....
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hey and I was just thinking I was the lucky one
Her: so what are you going to do with this cocktail cabinet?
Me: oh I don't know fix it up and sell it I guess
Her: why can't we just keep it and put it in the front room
Me: <gasp> you so rock
Her: it's so true...
conversation last night after she finished staining the cabinet. I'm so lucky....
Menace speaks the truth!! I met Mrs. Menace at various Arcade Auctions in Toronto.
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My GF is affraid to help me because she knows that I am a perfectionist and if it's even a little wrong I'll get pissed! Just a couple days ago I was trying to hold a piece of MDF in a specific spot and drill a hole at the same time, I asked her to drill the hole for me and it took her like a whole minute to drill the one hole because she was going so slow. The piece had a lot of tension on it so my arms were hurting by the time she was done. I thought it was a simple task that no one could screw up... Guess I was wrong!
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My GF is affraid to help me because she knows that I am a perfectionist and if it's even a little wrong I'll get pissed! Just a couple days ago I was trying to hold a piece of MDF in a specific spot and drill a hole at the same time, I asked her to drill the hole for me and it took her like a whole minute to drill the one hole because she was going so slow. The piece had a lot of tension on it so my arms were hurting by the time she was done. I thought it was a simple task that no one could screw up... Guess I was wrong!
Why, did the hole end up in the wrong spot?
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Me: Honey, I'm home....
Her: What's that in the back of the VAN???
Me: Ohhh.. nothing really dear. Just something I picked up..... ;)
Her: IS THAT ANOTHER GAME??? >:(
Kids: Yay! :D
Me: Don't worry, it will blend in with the MAME and Crystal Castles
Her: You're a geek!
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He he you gotta love it when the love of your life calls you a geek, he he. I've lost count of the number of times my wife has said that to me.
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here's my situation:
Me: will you help me with my new galalga replica?
wife: If you help me with the dishes
Me: sure!
*does dishes*
wife: there now I'll help!
Me: great, you're the best.
*big kissing*
wife: I dont exist.
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My wife's completely understanding of my needs :D The MAME works (she kicks ---my bottom--- in Gyruss) when she feels the need to take out her aggravations on something....
Now, she's started asking for the pockey table (pool/hockey) and a Skeeball.....
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still celibate (birthday in december, will break the drought then. or try anyway) so convo more like this:
ME: lets play defender on the cab!!
MRS PALMER: you ALWAYS make me play with that sanwa stick. i miss you...
HER FIVE DAUGHTERS: yeah
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ME: I guess I'll go with the defender type cabinet.
WIFE: If you are going to build one, build a cool one, like that *points to dynamo showcase cabinet*
ME:........ I love you.
Holy sh1t, has she any sisters?? Serious though, can't complain, so far I've Mamed 2 old jamma cabs and built a cocktail from scratch and it's only really the mess during construction that bothers the missus. Shes a shinobi accict ;)
I'm STILL trying to get my showcase cab started, it will be the true test of our relationship LOL.
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here's my situation:
Me: will you help me with my new galalga replica?
wife: If you help me with the dishes
Me: sure!
*does dishes*
wife: there now I'll help!
Me: great, you're the best.
*big kissing*
wife: I dont exist.
LOL
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Me: I've finally finished it ...
She: Do you want me to help you to sell it ?
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There are a million mame stories in the naked city, and this is just one of them:
Phone rings at work
Me: Hi
Wife: Hi. Your onitor has arrived.
Me: Great. I'll have it finished by Christmas (outrageous lie as no mame project is *ever* finished)
Wife: How much more are you going to spend on this?
Me: Oh, I've only got a few more bits and pieces to get
Wife: We're never going to move house!
Me: Don't be silly, it's only a few cables and things.
Wife: How much is all this costing us?
Me: Sorry, have to go - been called into a meeting. Bye
Later that night.....
Me: I've got you something really nice for Christmas.
Wife: Well, you're not getting anything. That aracde machine is yours.
Me (in head): Well that's a minor victory then!
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Me: When are you going to cleanup your sh*t in the basement so I have room to work on my cabs!
GF: Wahhhh!
Me: Stop yer whining beyatch! I need to MAME!
GF: Are you threatening me?!
Me: I might be!
GF: Wahhhh!
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My wife laughed at me for building one, however when the 'Played' counter reached 100+ on Puzzle Bobble and i'd never had a game, she finally admitted that she'd been sneaking the odd game or two when I wasn't looking.
My sister on the other hand who does call me a geek spent 3 hours trying to complete Mad Dog Macree, I reckon if i had a coin slot in I would have made about
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me: honey guess what I'm almost done with my cabinet
her: you're not putting that thing in the living room
me: well yea, I was planning to
her: no
ha now she's letting me get a 12' x 20' shed to make into a gameroom ;D
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Me: Hey, check out those kids playing DDR. They're pretty good!
Her: Hey, I want a DDR pad, can you build one?
:D
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here's my situation:
Me: will you help me with my new galalga replica?
wife: If you help me with the dishes
Me: sure!
*does dishes*
wife: there now I'll help!
Me: great, you're the best.
*big kissing*
wife: I dont exist.
LOL
glad someone appreciates me
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Me: We need to get rid of that old dining table in the game room. I was thinking of getting one of those tall round bar tables. What do you think?
wife: Why not build one of those arcade table things...
Me: You mean a coctail table???
wife: I guess that's what you call it. And it needs to have Galaga on it.
Me: Yes Mam!