Gentleman, I may have come across one sided. I, like you guys, understand the importance of the give and take. My better half gets the Deer in the headlights look as well and laughs like she's watching the Bugs Bunny / Road Runner show when she goes to the strip. It amazes her to see Snow Mobiles, bikes, cars of all kinds, race. ... but it was the Jet cars that got the, "Wyle Fu!#$^g Coyote!" comment. Her new car is parked in the driveway along side my Merc because only the '64 Dodge (List Content) is allowed in there. She knows this and doesn't bat an eye when I'm heading out there to work on it. She understands and supports the fact that building my car is my goal, dream, zen thing... For Christmas and such, she buys me parts and pieces for the car. She recognizes all that goes into rebuilding a car and admires ...and is baffled at the same time. It's something she has said is amazing, "how you can remember where all those pieces go?". She's would be most excited to see the finished car, so showing her the finished welds, body work or front end rebuild gets that deer in the head lights look, yet she knows what it means to me and is excited for me. She encourages me everystep of the way. So my strategy of going to the Ballet or what not with her, is ok by Me because it seems to be working juuuust fine. Christopher -- '64 Dodge 440 2 Dr. Hard Top '87 Dodge Ramcharger '00 Merc Berz C230 Kompressor 16.73 1/4 - (Hey, It's DaimlerChrysler) -------------- Original message -------------- From: ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx > > My wife gets the deer-in-the-headlights look when I talk cars to her, > but I have invested a lot of time by going shopping with her and to > craft shows, etc. I also help her by building her display racks for the > earrings she makes/takes to the shows. HOWEVER, she goes to the > cruise-ins at the Nats every year, even drove the Polara there this > year, and giggled every time I lit the tires at the Heath cruise-in. > We just bought her a Hemi Chrysler 300 and now she wants me to teach her > how to do a burnout, so she's finally hooked...you have to plan a little > strategy here guys. > > mrchristopher1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > You guys are getting off easy. To get my better half to attend a single > > race with me...I have to take her Yoga class...and go to the "NutCracker > > ballet...(Think thats a coincedence??? Nut Cracker...). I don't dare > > ask her to help me do body work... > > Christopher > > -- > > '64 Dodge 440 2 Dr. Hard Top > > '87 Dodge Ramcharger > > '00 Merc Berz C230 Kompressor 16.73 1/4 - (Hey, It's DaimlerChrysler) > > -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.