..So, what gets on your nerves while building ?

[Donnie]

So, I am sure that everyone has what it called a "pet peeve"
[A pet peeve is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to them, to a greater degree than others may find it]

To me, it is when I have finally found the location of where that mysterious rigging line goes, got the line, tweezers, needle threader in hand, and just about the time you are to put the end of the rigging line right where it needs to go, while you are holding the most strenuous yoga pose and body contortion out of a circus act, , , the phone rings !

 

[catopower]

Hi Donnie,

I don't have that problem because I mostly never answer my phone. And, when I do, it's when I'm not in the middle of something as important as rigging that line you finally located. Let them go to voicemail, I say!

My pete pieve is losing things. Particularly those things that I had in my hand so that I wouldn't lose it, only go to use it and realize that I had set it down. It's worse when I remember thinking "let me put this here because otherwise I might lose it", but then it's still nowhere to be found. I'm not talking about dropped parts, those go into the dimensional portal that's located somewhere under my work table and are never to be seen again (or the dimension portal shifts them through time and space so that they appear days later in a completely random location). The thing is, the whole "where did I put that part" isn't an age thing as I can remember this happening a lot ever since I started ship modeling.

There is also a ship modeling blind spot I've managed to develop. You know, where you're looking for a piece and you know exactly where you put it, but it's not there. You look around swearing that it has to be right where you thought you put it. You shuffle things around some more, completely puzzled. Only to look again where you thought it was, AND THERE IT IS. Now, that might be a blind spot, or it might be a work space gremlin that has taken up residence and just comes by and puts things right where I'll knock them over. Or, it shoves stuff off my table or hides things only to put them right back later. Maybe it's all related...

Clare

 

[GaryM]

Clare, you hit it right on the head. I agree it is not age related since it has happened this way all the way back to my early 20's. Getting a bigger work space and keeping it clear has help a lot and is worth the time because less parts seem to go into the portal. However, the fact that I use smaller parts now because I have learned that the manufactures scale of blocks, deadeyes, belaying pins, rigging line, etc. are mostly oversize has made the items harder to find.

 

[Short John Bronze]

Two peeves:
1) Having painstakingly threaded something or delicately placed a tiny part, I take my hand away and the cord/piece comes with it.
Perhaps I am particularly messy with traces of glue. on my fingers.
2) I drop a small piece (usually a deadeye or block). If I do actually find it, it is 6ft (sorry shipmates, a fathom) away.
Nothing in my dim and distant physics lessons will explain how a light, tiny object landing on a carpet can bounce so far.

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Having the wife yell at me from back room in house that’s around the corner!

When you drop all your doing to check on her, she says oh never mind!

 

[ken s]

When something falls down into the hull,,,,, never to be retrieved.

 

[JohnA]

When you prepare a bunch of items to be glued, line them up, dry fit them, rehearse the process so it goes smoothly, then find that you previously left the cap off the glue tube and it's dried out.

 

[Donnie]

Having the wife yell at me from back room in house that’s around the corner!

When you drop all your doing to check on her, she says oh never mind!

AHHH - So it IS a universal thing !!!

 

[Brewbrarian]

Only to look again where you thought it was, AND THERE IT IS.

My admiral says this is a Y chromosome (male) thing. When I know it's right there and I'm not seeing it, I call her in and say I need your extra X chromosome. She looks down and grabs whatever has been playing invisible.

 

[yotty]

Aha! So it's not just me. All of the above apply, usually on a daily basis!
My main peeve is having to stop when I can't see straight!

 

[PoulD]

Having the wife yell at me from back room in house that’s around the corner!

When you drop all your doing to check on her, she says oh never mind!

I can certainly empathize with that. I was not building a model though, but I was anyway completely immersed in my own thoughts, taking my morning shower.

Suddenly I was ripped out of my soulsearching by a terrible scream that sounded through the house. It sounded so gruesome and piercing that it made the hair on my neck prickle and my heart was in my mouth. The door to the bathroom was then slammed open with a bang and my wife came in with an eye-bulging, nostril-flaring fear painted all over her face, exactly like my little granddaughter's when she accidently came near a roaring monster in the dinosaur forest.

There couldn’t be the slightest doubt that something terribly catastrophic had happened that required my immediate presence, so I immediately turned off the water, jumped out of the bath while grabbing the nearest towel to wipe the worst shampoo out of my hair.

It was at that point I discovered that Abraham Maslow has made a huge mistake. Somehow he has completely overlooked WiFi and mobile networks as essential survival needs