31/08/2026
Young dude walks in here this morning. He is a model builder. Star Wars and stuff like that. About 24 years old. Now, I was not overly friendly because I am busy catching up. Loose ends everywhere.
So I just carried on while he was explaining what he wanted. And then he kept quiet and waited for me to finish and put together the handbrake assembly in the cab of the CG1 class 35GM.
“Maar oom, hoekom sit oom die ketting in as jy dit nie gaan sien nie?” he asked.
“Want netnou fokken kyk iemand” I replied.
And with the wisdom of youth he said to me that if 100 people looked at this model, only two or three will see it. “And those two are normally the judges” I replied.
He looked at me and said that there was a cabin in the Millenium Falcon he is building currently that he wanted to fit a light but he could not reach unless he broke it out and rebuilt it.
“Oom” sê hy “ek gaan nou huis toe en ek gaan daai liggie daar in bou. Dankie oom.”
And he left.
And just like that……. insanity was born. It can only be a good thing…..
Right?
