'Hi, my name is Plazmaburn...and I have an airsoft problem'
(Group responds..'Hi PB')....bawwwhaaahaa
I get man, really I do. I have been a guitar/instrument dealer and tech for 35 years plus. Oh sure, it isn't my day job, per se at this time, but it has been and the residual effects are still felt to this day. To be honest, we've kept it relatively sane over the years and at the moment we're sitting on about 40 pcs. which considering that about half of those are left over inventory from when we shut down the shop a few years back, that leaves me with a personal stock of about 20 pcs. Not bad, right?
If you take into consideration that the total number of instruments to go through the door in 3 decades is well into the hundreds if not thousands, a float of 20 is peanuts! Then there's the amplifiers, PA gear, etc,etc...
Alas, we each have our things, man. Learning from past experience I've been very strict with airsoft gear. I convince myself that it is a gratuitous hobby and as such is not permitted to exceed a certain number of cubic feet in the house. No matter how much it pains me, and it does, one does not enter without another one going out. That's the rule. We are absolutely firm on that too. I cried when I sold my GK5C (even if it was to my kid), but in exchange I got the APS which was a new and foreign specimen to fool with...and so on.
Now, the problem with getting older is that theoretically you've worked hard and feel you deserve a few trats for having been so diligent and frugal all those years. It is really, really tough not to run out there and get everything today!!! Could I? I guess so...but then that isn't the point. We need discipline, and limits...or you just don't appreciate stuff.
That said, I only have two gratuitous pews...the BAR and the EBR. Ok, three...the L96 either. They shall not leave. Oh yeah, and the pistols...damn, here we go! hahaha
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