Bad habits since taking up pinball

[Ashbo]

So it got pointed out to me, since taking up pinball I have picked up a nasty habit....it goes like this...

1) pick up phone, browse to pinball info, look at what's going on and what's for sale
2) Facebook market place, search for pinball machine, jukebox, arcade, guitar
3) repeat step 2 on eBay and Gumtree
4) return to Facebook and look at groups on pinball, arcade and jukeboxes
5) check out things discovering above steps on YouTube, then check for pinball related subscription updates
6) put down phone, I'm ignoring what's happening in the real world.
7) forgotten I need to stop using phone and go back to step one

Is it just me, or is this a routine anyone else has slipped into?

 

[AlanJ]

at least when your playing pinball it stops you picking your nose and eating the bogey

 

[Ashbo]

at least when your playing pinball it stops you picking your nose and eating the bogey

Reminds me, I need to collect the bogies inside the coin door

 

[Bobbdobalina]

So it got pointed out to me, since taking up pinball I have picked up a nasty habit....it goes like this...

1) pick up phone, browse to pinball info, look at what's going on and what's for sale
2) Facebook market place, search for pinball machine, jukebox, arcade, guitar
3) repeat step 2 on eBay and Gumtree
4) return to Facebook and look at groups on pinball, arcade and jukeboxes
5) check out things discovering above steps on YouTube, then check for pinball related subscription updates
6) put down phone, I'm ignoring what's happening in the real world.
7) forgotten I need to stop using phone and go back to step one

Is it just me, or is this a routine anyone else has slipped into?

You are not alone, that’s me exactly.
Infuriates my Mrs, and I really don’t blame her

 

[Ashbo]

You are not alone, that’s me exactly.
Infuriates my Mrs, and I really don’t blame her

I think it should be called COVID conditioning from habits when nothing lasted for 5 minutes before selling

 

[Happypin]

Your not alone, that’s why this forum is so active.
stay strong. Lol

 

[kev a]

Yup same here, check first thing in the morning, then regularly throughout the day, just never know when bargains or something interesting will pop up.

 

[Ashbo]

Yup same here, check first thing in the morning, then regularly throughout the day, just never know when bargains or something interesting will pop up.

My god, there is a whole battalion of us glued to the phones like teenagers on snapstagrammer.

 

[kev a]

My god, there is a whole battalion of us glued to the phones like teenagers on snapstagrammer.

Its when you have pinballinfo on the phone, ebay on the laptop and pinball vids on the tv you need to start worrying.

 

[Ashbo]

Its when you have pinballinfo on the phone, ebay on the laptop and pinball vids on the tv you need to start worrying.

Lunchtimes then?

 

[kev a]

Lunchtimes then?

Full 8 hours if its a WFH day, sure beats working

 

[M4carp]

Yup same here, check first thing in the morning, then regularly throughout the day, just never know when bargains or something interesting will pop up.

I have only ever got a bargain once in 24 years on eBay and none elsewhere but I keep on looking like the rest of us!

Get up, Nespresso then start looking. Nothing so onto youtube on tv to see what’s new on there, so sad

Next day rinse and repeat

 

[kev a]

I have only ever got a bargain once in 24 years on eBay and none elsewhere but I keep on looking like the rest of us!

Get up, Nespresso then start looking. Nothing so onto youtube on tv to see what’s new on there, so sad

Next day rinse and repeat

Thats still better odds than the lottery, and people still do that

Local buy and sell facebook groups have been good for me, but soooo much dross to wade through.

 

[Ashbo]

Thats still better odds than the lottery, and people still do that

Local buy and sell facebook groups have been good for me, but soooo much dross to wade through.

First pin, local buy sell Facebook, second and third Pinballs for sale Facebook, fourth Gumtree,fifth and sixth on here, seventh Pinballs for sale Facebook, eighth eBay, ninth here.......all whilst scouring obsessively

 

[Tony]

Bad habit - filling garage with pinballs & arcade stuff which meant wife’s car ended up on the drive, was an unhappy compromise until it got stolen 3 weeks ago! Now I’m trying to empty “Some” of the garage so that if it comes back or its replacement, can actually fit in garage!
There goes the garage conversion to a games room gone in about 9 minutes one early Monday morning!!

 

[Spandangler]

Its when you have pinballinfo on the phone, ebay on the laptop and pinball vids on the tv you need to start worrying.

…. And porn on the VR headset

 

[Gonzo]

at least when your playing pinball it stops you picking your nose and eating the bogey

I pick my nose and flick it at Iron Maiden (pro, prem or LE) . . . .It's a good job Walking Dead belonged to a friend or I'd have wiped my @rse on it.

 

[Gonzo]

Anyone else masturbate whilst reading the pinside top 100? . . . .we've all done it right fellas?


Fellas?


Anyone?


Hello.


Oh!

 

[M4carp]

Anyone else masturbate whilst reading the pinside top 100? . . . .we've all done it right fellas?


Fellas?


Anyone?


Hello.


Oh!

You been drinking Mahou

 

[Gonzo]

You been drinking Mahou

Two bottles of the non alcoholic kind mate

 

[M4carp]

Two bottles of the non alcoholic kind mate

Well I was and found a message in my pinroom this morning, think a T insert lamp was playing up so shoved my hand in and the lamp popped up so shut down and get out before I blow something up