Have you had others MESS WITH YOUR TF'S AND BREAK THEM!?
Some people just don't respect a persons collection! They seem to be totally ignorant of:
a: the amount the individual figures mean to you. Even after 1100 figures I still remember when, how or from whom I obtained each one.
b: the value of the figures. They don't realise that what looks to them like an old plastic toy can be worth hundreds of dollars because of it's rarity.
I've had some incidents over the years: :mad:
1: THE MAIN BETRAYER
*At my 30th my wife's cousin, his mate and his girlfriend went into my Transformatorium room where he dropped his pants and his friend took mobile phone pics of his girlfriend holding some mini-cons around his butt-crack
*A year later we were going to play a game of Transformers Monopoly that I just got imported. I decided (stupidly) to use my 1984 mini autobots as markers. While I went to the next room he picked up Gears and started bashing him around the board. Subsequently Gears left shin guard broke away. He then to try and illicit laughs from others hid Gears at the bottom of a bowl of sticky, sugary lollies.
*At our wedding two close friends made a huge board for everyone to sign. The board was black with our names in the middle with a giant Autobot and Decepticon symbol either side. People were supposed to sign it with a silver pen - instead he drew a huge pair of boobs in the middle.
Needless to say I refuse to talk to her relative anymore, and he knows to stay away on pain of pummelling (and the sod just did a runner on his 8 month pregnant wife so I was proved right about his morals).
2: LAST WEEKEND
*Last weekend we had Sarah's Baby Shower/My 35th Birthday Bonfire. During the baby shower 3 of the women from my work went into my study (bear in mind they are all mature women and had NOT been drinking). With our impending baby almost here almost all of my TF's are packed away except for a bunch of my Diamond Select and HardHead TF busts, some TF headknockers and a bunch of Robot Heroes and Bot Shots on the shelves in my study. These 3 women proceeded to take my rare, expensive busts down and put them in what they thought were funny but precarious spots all over the room for me to discover later. By the time I discovered this many hours later, the cat had knocked my Soundblaster statuette onto the floor, causing damage to it. These women when confronted just laughed about it until I told them of the damaged caused, and yelled in such a white-hot fury than one left the room and cried for half an hour.
None of these people who committed these outrageous sins seemed particularly repentant and if anything found my incandecant rage to be a source of humor. When I said it would be the same as 'me slapping one of their kids or pushing their kid out onto a road for laughs' they just said to not be stupid. Needless to say I have many other friends who would never dream of touching my collection without my express permission, and many who refuse to even hold one when offered for fear of breaking it.
Do people in your life respect your TF collection? And have there been instances where they haven't and the conequences have been grave? :mad:
