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Topic: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

My wife has all but banned speaking of the Lemons race until the race weekend. The convo usually goes like this.... Me: Hey honey, guess what?   Wife: If this is about your stupids Lemons car I don't even want to hear it!. Lulz, at least isn't complaining too much about the cost of it!

BTW, Yee-Haw in September is my first Lemons race and I am going retarded with excitement.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

You've got to get her involved with it, and then you'll find that it can become the center of both of your lives.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

Agreed, get her involved  and your life will be more fulfilled as well.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

wrappedinbacon wrote:

You've got to get her involved with it, and then you'll find that it can become the center of both of your lives.

I'd refine this a bit: you've got to get her to want to be involved with it.

Unfortunately, this is more easily said than done. The womens seem to especially like the theme/costume aspect of the cars, IMHO. If you're lacking a theme (or if your theme is lacking), you may have success in enlisting help on that front. It's helped with me, but not enough to get her really, really involved. Just involved enough to not resist as much when it comes to Lemons stuff.

Then again, when we drove past our driveway on our alley today (she usually parks out front but we were carpooling), she just shook her head at my madness. Oh well.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

Divorce her, then you wont need to worry about it!

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Lemons is 70% arts and crafts, and 25% maniacal wrench-fests...only 5% is actually racing, So, get her to help you look good while doing it. it can be very rewarding that way.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

T-Money645 wrote:

My wife has all but banned speaking of the Lemons race until the race weekend. The convo usually goes like this.... Me: Hey honey, guess what?   Wife: If this is about your stupids Lemons car I don't even want to hear it!. Lulz, at least isn't complaining too much about the cost of it!

BTW, Yee-Haw in September is my first Lemons race and I am going retarded with excitement.

You think you are bad now, just wait till September 13...
You will start budgeting for gas money to drive to trailer your car to CO and AZ.

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T-Money645 wrote:

My wife has all but banned speaking of the Lemons race until the race weekend. The convo usually goes like this.... Me: Hey honey, guess what?   Wife: If this is about your stupids Lemons car I don't even want to hear it!. Lulz, at least isn't complaining too much about the cost of it!

BTW, Yee-Haw in September is my first Lemons race and I am going retarded with excitement.

You think you are bad now, just wait till September 13...
You will start budgeting for gas money to drive to trailer your car to CO and AZ.

Precisely. Here's how I expect my phone call on Monday, September 13 with co-driver Stevo to go given that the next Texas race will be in February '10 (probably):

"Hey Stevo, we should think about entering the Miami race..."
"But both of our cars are too far away."
"Not really..."

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9 Reply by beaviscih (edited by beaviscih 2010-07-19 07:34 PM)

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My wife has been sick of the car hobby for some time now, but this may push her over the edge.  The Houston race will be the Austin No-Power Subaru Shaguar's first event and may be my last at my current pace.  I almost had her on my side when she asked if women could compete, and I said of course, but you will need to participate in the theme.  She said only if she could go as Foxxy Cleopatra...then I opened my mouth and said Frau Farbissina would be more appropriate.  Needless to say she won't be coming to the race.

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My wife is 'all in'.

We're building our 'mobile hospitality suite' right now.



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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

I'm trying like hell to get the paintbrush in her hand, but it's so hard with the sparks and the blood flying everywhere.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

My wife loves to hear about Lemons. Never any problems from that corner.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

My wife just hates the long hours before the race. She is Ina sebatatical from Lemons til kid is older. She enjoys the violation area.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

My wife only gets upset when she does not get to go because of work.



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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

Somehow my wife didn't find "Summer's Eve Racing" as amusing as we did...

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I think my wife deliberately scheduled my daughter's baptism the same weekend as the Omaha/MAM race. Then she baited me with the "Oh you can still go race, I'll handle it all."

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I second wrappedinbacon's tactic-- get her involved. Mary & I now alternate who is team captain each race.

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18 Reply by lonestarrpm (edited by lonestarrpm 2010-07-21 03:45 PM)

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

My Wife solved two problems with one fell swoop

She was tired of hearing about my Lemons team -- and I needed someone
who knew about roll cages.

She hooks up a family get together with a friend of hers whose
husband was into cars.

Well you know how that can go......

Well into cars meant -- a life long Midget series racer who built his own chassis
whose family owns a metal fabrication company.  He was tired of going round
in circles and wanted to learn how to make right turns (and use the brakes!)

24 hours later -- he's on the team and measuring out our roll cage.

Now we get to talk Lemons AND the wive's are happy (for now :-)

too funny

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Mine has pretty much waved the white flag. She almost cracks a smile when I say "we interupt this marriage to bring you Lemons (insert race name/city)"

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Is my wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons??

Nope...but my husbund is....

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

Yeah - my wife hates Lemons.  Last event I ran was on Mothers' Day.  She stayed at home with our new daughter.  Next event?  In December on my daughter's birthday.
Its a good think I got a space heater in the garage now.  I'll be sleeping out there soon...

And to anyone to who suggests to get unenthusiastic spouses involved as a remedy, I suggest the following exercise:
1) Get an angry badger
2) Poke the badger repeatedly with a stick
3) Put the badger in your car and take a long road trip
4) Let us when you come back if the badger likes road trips.

;-)

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

I don't have a wife, but I have a fiancee. Here is my solution:

I parked the car over at her place since she had a spare parking spot in her garage. It is only about 1/2 mile from my house anyway, but I already have my car and an old truck that doesn't run in my garage.

Now she has a sense of ownership. Yay!

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

We're building our first LeMon, and my gf is really looking forward to working on the car.  She's got some experience with lexan, so I think she'll jump right in when we get to weight reduction.  But for now, it's all spun bearings and crossed fingers.

We usually get involved in each other's pet projects.  It gives us plenty of crazy stuff to do on the weekends.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

I successfully went one whole day without talking about Lemons! My friends and co-workers have to be pretty sick of hearing Lemons this, Lemons that. I told myself no "L word" for 24 hours. It was hard but I made it happen.

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Re: Is your wife tired of hearing you talk about Lemons?

My wife races with me.  Now she doesn't want to talk about the races as much afterward, we have a get together with the other 4 FL tampa team and go out drinking. We can talk cars, she has other friends join us and they play darts.
She also races motorcycles with me and goes to car shows. Her toy is a Classic RHD mini with a Honda Vtech conversion. She like my Citroens and wants me to get them back on the road.
When we started to DE events at Sebring and she didnt want to drive her track car home after the event, while I towed my car. She suggested I get a 2 car trailer. I told her id also have to upgrade the truck to a Dually. She told me to get the truck and she bought the trailer.
  I am a very lucky guy.

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