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This thread reassures me never to take my miniatures to our local GW store. Sometimes, when I'm there to buy some paint, I look at the actual game being played on the table in the middle of the store and something insides cringes me at the very possibility of someone breaking something or dropping it to the floor.

I even get slightly uncomfortable when my usual opponents (who haven't painted more than a total of half an hour until now and simply don't know what kind of work is needed for a single, nicely painted mini) casually grab my models and touch them all over the paintwork. I told them to touch them on the base only and they looked at me if I were overreacting. Well, I guess they'll learn when they spent their first week painted ONE single soldier...

...I guess if some dislikable idiot at a store would break my minis, I'm not sure what I would do. I'm really a non-violent person, but probably my mind would produce wonderful pictures of palmstrike to the nose, knee to the solar plexus, elbow smash to the temple and let the fether drop to the floor. In the end I'd probably only tell him to be more careful next time... Guess I'm too soft.
To avoid situations like this, I don't bring minis to the store.

Does anybody here get watched by the dozens of little horrors when your buying expensive stuff from GW? when I got back in the hobby I must have brought about £100 of models and supplies and I was being followed around to see what I would buy next, then when I got to the checkout it was look oooooo ahhhh look what he's brought...scary very scary..

When I started playing with my current Warhammer group, our first game was a very long, rules-explaining and hard-drinking marathon match. the cousin of the guy hosting the game (who doesn't play warhammer himself, his main hobby is smoking dope) couldn't take his booze, and then fell backwards over the stool on which my unsecured army case was resting. Thousand sons went scattering out the garage door behing him and down the driveway. I got most of the pieces together while he apologised and went to bed in shame, although I did find one marine the next week, under the car.

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:When I started playing with my current Warhammer group, our first game was a very long, rules-explaining and hard-drinking marathon match. the cousin of the guy hosting the game (who doesn't play warhammer himself, his main hobby is smoking dope) couldn't take his booze, and then fell backwards over the stool on which my unsecured army case was resting. Thousand sons went scattering out the garage door behing him and down the driveway. I got most of the pieces together while he apologised and went to bed in shame, although I did find one marine the next week, under the car.

i have a great mental image of a drunk stoner falling over onto some pointymarines, sorry i mean chaos marines and getting impaled

Archonate wrote:This story fills me with rage. Both toward the mother and her slowed spawn.
It seems that some time shortly after my generation, a majority parents mutually decided to not only let their children run wild doing whatever they want, but also fiercely defend said child from anyone telling them to knock it off. Ultimately not only refusing to parent, but also getting angry when somebody is forced to step in and parent in their behalf.

I see this as well on those rare times that I'm in a GW store and just don't get it. My girls are 3 & 5 and they know to ask before they touch a model or even a box set.

I can even take them to model shops (you know, the tiny ones with floor to ceiling boxes and racks of tiny parts everywhere) and they won't touch a thing without asking.


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Wolfgang wrote:Does anybody here get watched by the dozens of little horrors when your buying expensive stuff from GW? when I got back in the hobby I must have brought about £100 of models and supplies and I was being followed around to see what I would buy next, then when I got to the checkout it was look oooooo ahhhh look what he's brought...scary very scary..

Even the staff do this sometimes - Wow, you're buying ten bikes? Well, that's how many marines is in a squad so, yeah...
When 3rd ed. came out and I bought eight rhinos it was like their heads were going to explode!

Scott-S6 wrote:Even the staff do this sometimes - Wow, you're buying ten bikes? Well, that's how many marines is in a squad so, yeah...
When 3rd ed. came out and I bought eight rhinos it was like their heads were going to explode!

Not many people at my store buy that much at a time, we rarely have ten bikes or eight rhinos in stock!

My brother (1-2 years junior) came to the club with me for once (he's now hooked on to eldar). My friend had just finished putting together Typhus and had left him to dry. My brother asks if he can have look, my friend says yeah but don't touch him. My brother picks him up. My friend says put him down repeatedly, but too late, Typhus' arm broke off.

He walks over and punches my brother in the arm. Now while I completly understand (and was close to doing the same thing) my brother's family, and I warned my friend that if he ever did anything like that again, I would deck him. This didn't stop me chewing my bro's ear off (not literally) at the slightest opportunity.

I have 2 armies. the one i bring to my FLGS and the one I dont. the one I bring even the plastics are pinned, there painted in the most basic manner I can do while still making them look good. I got the odd kid asking to look but mostly people dont ask they jsut grab. the extra pinning has saved me a few times as I've had people dropping my master of the forge with his full harness from about 5 feet and he staied intact.

As for unruly kids and bad or angry parents.

Yesterday I was at my local GW painting up a few nids as it was cleaning day at my house and I woke up before everyone else and GTFO before I had to do any work. when I got there a man working away and his 2 kids were at the painting table getting hoped up on pop rocks and coke, I sat down and proceeded to pull out my paint brushes and models and as soon as I started to paint the kiddies were out in force grabbing my freshly painted models leaving their fingerprints in the paint, dropping some of my metal models chipping the paint then proceeded to tell me that my unfinnished models were ugly and had chips and finger prints in the paint.

when I kindly asked them to stop the father became irrate and was chewing me out for trying to curtail his kids fun. I proceeded to ask him to reverse our positions, if it were my kids grabbing his models leaving prints in hte paint and chipping them what would he do. he responded by tellign his kids not to touch the models without permission and got back to his painting. THEN the sugar kicked in and the kids were running around hte store grabbing everything that wasnt nailed down. After about 20 minutes of this the redshirts asked him to keep controll of his children or leave, and he responded by yelling at the employee to not to tell him how to parent his kids.

suffice to say the man was banned from the store for about two weeks and wont be able to pick up his space hulk box untill that time, me and the manager had a good laugh about it and the rest of the day I was uninterupted. Im so happy that all the kiddies here are back in school for most of the day and i can get some painting done uninterupted.

Karma has struck again.

ManwithIronHands wrote:As for unruly kids and bad or angry parents.

Yesterday I was at my local GW painting up a few nids as it was cleaning day at my house and I woke up before everyone else and GTFO before I had to do any work. when I got there a man working away and his 2 kids were at the painting table getting hoped up on pop rocks and coke, I sat down and proceeded to pull out my paint brushes and models and as soon as I started to paint the kiddies were out in force grabbing my freshly painted models leaving their fingerprints in the paint, dropping some of my metal models chipping the paint then proceeded to tell me that my unfinnished models were ugly and had chips and finger prints in the paint.

when I kindly asked them to stop the father became irrate and was chewing me out for trying to curtail his kids fun. I proceeded to ask him to reverse our positions, if it were my kids grabbing his models leaving prints in hte paint and chipping them what would he do. he responded by tellign his kids not to touch the models without permission and got back to his painting. THEN the sugar kicked in and the kids were running around hte store grabbing everything that wasnt nailed down. After about 20 minutes of this the redshirts asked him to keep controll of his children or leave, and he responded by yelling at the employee to not to tell him how to parent his kids.

STATE IMPOSED STERILISATION OF THE STUPID.

That's change I can believe in.

Ok, get this!

Many years ago now, I was the main 'full timer' at my local shop and while not 'manager' level was seen as a responsible unit who had over seen a few stores in the area for some time.

Then Jon joined our store as the manager. The man was 30 going on 12 with teeth that could make you gag at the site of them, why HO let him out in public I will never know.

Anyway, as key 'frother' I always ran the big saturday afternoon games (basically Apoc before the rules) and the kids (and adults) always had a great time- lots of team work, support for those who didn't know the rules that well, you know the kinda feel good times;-)

SO, after a good 3 hour game, people were starting to pack their armies away into kitchen paper and tupperware combo's or actual cases when I heard from the other side of the store, Jon ask Henry (a 10 yr old VERY pleasant young man) to put his army away. Henry at this time was talking about how well the game had gone with his mates, you know the whole excited de-brief type thang going on.
Jon then asked again, only 2 minutes later. Henry replied, 'yep will do' and continued the conversation.

3 minutes later I was horrified to then see said manager march up to Henry's case, pick it up and then fling the whole thing across the other side of the shop and then proceeded to pick up a basilisk and some infantry and, yep, they too followed suit!!!!! Jon's only words were "I told you to pack this lot away!" Henry being 10, was quite rightly scared by this intimidation and quite frankly violent act. I stepped in, got Jon out back of the shop and sorted out the situation. (Henry walked away with a LOT of new stuff that day;-P)

The most appauling thing about this entire event is that when I reported this to HO, an investigation was put in place and after about one week, Jon was moved to another store. Not sacked, not 'disciplined' but moved.

I have never worked for the retail arm again.

All true.

cheers
W

Wow, this last story is really hard stuff. I mean, how little or big can a man's ego be that, over a child (!) taking its time with doing what it is asked, he consciously destroys not only items owned by another person, but by a customer of the very shop he works for...! The reaction from HO is quite unsatisfactory, too...

Wait, do Necrons still get their WBB on wounds caused by manhandling?

avantgarde wrote:I was hanging out with friends at the mall when we saw this geeky kid that went to my school walk out of the GW with his army. I was trying to impress this girl so we started harassing him. Like playing keep away with his models. Anyways I pocketed a couple and thought they looked cool when I got home and that's how I started 40k.

Finally Found You! *Proceeds to look up address in Brooklyn Phone Book while applying lipstick*

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

infilTRAITOR wrote:Mwah ha ha ha ha, I'm often the one picking up models to take a look! I do ask, most of the time.

Every time I go over my buds house (ChaosBubbles) I always break something of his. Now he has switched from GW glue to loctite, it's now one in every two visits something breaks. But I swear it's totally not my fault!

And here we witness the infilTRAITOR as it collects bitz for the bitz box, snapping them from whole models that have strayed too close...

Shhh, it's a secret!

I don't mind people man-handling my stuff. I always have glue to hand and it only takes a few seconds to dry. I always tell people to be careful if it's fragile and if it breaks it breaks.

Some of your stories are really funny sorry to cruel or anything.

Nomog wrote: I received some attitude from the mother about what harm could he do.....seconds later he broke the roll bar off of not one but two ork trukks.

You should have grabbed his mother's boobs and asked her "what harm could it do" with as much sarcasm as you could muster!

Heh, now that's a good one.

I have been lucky, but I also assume that everyone in the FLGS is either a thief or slowed and watch my stuff accordingly.....I havent lost a mini in almost 9 years.......

But the best story I have is where I was playing a Eldar list with 9 Warwalkers and had to borrow 6 Metal Sentinals from my friend Ben to proxy the models I didnt have. All game long he kept reminding me to be careful and gental with them as the old metal sentinals were very fragile. Finaly, after the game ended on turn 7 after about 3 hours, I handed all 6 Sentinals back to Ben and no sooner did he turn around than he dropped and broke every single one. It took us an hour to find all the missing parts and another hour to glue them back together.

I was SOOOOO happy it didnt happen while I was holding them........

I'd love to molest Laetitia Casta....oh wait, your not talking those kinda models? Oops.

Bookwrack wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:I dunno about that particular approach - if she doesn't know the movie, the next face you see could be this one:

I'd ask him if he'd ever hung out in a gymnasium too.

If I saw that face I'd punch him in the nose and ask how it feels to try to entrap people. I won't get into it but his show is such blatant entrapment I bet 99% of all his "molesters" walk free.

Yeah, he's magically forcing pervs to send dirty sex messages to to a 13 year-old kids, then drive to their houses with condoms and sex toys...

eh, wha-?

Oh dear lord lol

*sigh*
Is it too late/early to say IBTL?

I'm still trying to work out what possesses people to think that they are entitled to walk up to your property and manhandle it and in some cases break it without even asking permission.

I remember when my friend started the hobby for the first time and was asking me loads of questions which i was helping him with. He kept picking up my models and examining my paint job (with permission) when he put my crisis suit down rather hard and snapped the clear flying base leaving a tiny bit lodge inside the suit meaning I couldn't repair it. He was absolutely mortified, offering to buy it from me and all sorts.

Thankfully I have a friend with a fine tipped drill and he drilled it out for me allowing it to be repaired no fuss. But goes to show even careful modellers can cause grief, lol

Models are fragile but they are meant to be played with so there is an inherent risk they will be damaged even by careful users.

I think it's mostly little kids excited by the new hobby, and I wish they would ask for permission first but I see their enthusiasm. It doesn't stop me getting annoyed at breakage.

However, if someone slightly/much older who I don't know walks in and starts tinkering with my guys, I'd get a little pit peeved. (I tell hom it's okay, but in future just ask)

*Looks at Emperors Faithful, think we saved it*

Yes it does seem to be mostly children who are the major culprits, I understand that they do not know any better until they are actually taught not to do it.

And to be honest, I'm far more annoyed at adults picking things up without asking, they are old enough to know its disrespectful and rude.

think we saved it* ???

Explain yourself. NOW!!!