Quote Originally Posted by Akky82 View Post
I remember the same experience it late high school, one town over a friend saw me in the toy section looking at... must of been the RoD cars (prowl, sodeburn, x-brawn) and mocked me heavily, and told everyone in our year. Not many people gave a crap but a couple made me hide a lot of my hobby choices. Wasnt until second year of uni/traineeship I found a few people i worked/studied with were also into magic the gathering, and I've been lucky since (though working in IT you're more likely to find people interesting inthese things. My family and wife's family are all cool about me having a room half full of toys and a few model kits too. Was a bit worried working in a factory nowadays that when I got a gundam kit sent to work from japan and people wanted to see I thought oh here we go (since most of them are more interested in alcohol, rugby, partying...) but they thought it was pretty cool, and a couple even said they'd seen stuff like that at supanova, which was a surprise they even knew about that.

Some people are closer, some people are jealous, some people slare stupid... just dont go callingb yourself a 'transfan' around the weong people cos that'll open a whole different can of worms ;-)
I've got probably the reverse problem. I tend to work on the hoon car most weekends and there is only like one person that has any idea what I'm talking about when I talk about what I did on the weekend, mostly because he's got a sik skyline and works on his car too. The kicker is I work at a car dealership. l o l. There is like, no one there to discuss tuning with, (I tune my own car and actually did do another boost / fuelling tweak this morning), and what mods I do. Also have to explain a million times what the goal of my current flex fuel project actually does. Just waiting for those 1000cc injectors... that's another rant. So most of the time I don't say anything until I'm asked what I did last weekend, and prepare for the huh? what does that do? Follow up questions.

But when I talk about lego, model kits or RC cars, that's another story, everyone knows about those and are happy to chat about it.