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Tool Shop Confessions
- “I sold my daughter’s My Little Pony collection and told her that I didn’t know what happened to it…all so I could buy an engineered, pre-designed Pinewood Derby car for my son off of EBay.”
- “I pulled an all-nighter the night before my son’s Pinewood Derby, putting the finishing touches on the car and running it in mock races on my tile floor. It was just me, the car, my tools, can after can of Mountain Dew, a pack of cigarettes, The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival, and of course the hope for a Pinewood Derby title.”
- “My wife made me sleep on the couch for a few days, because I was spending more time in my garage building my son’s car than I was with her.”
- “I took a personal day at work to research Pinewood Derby car designs, buy materials, and build my son’s car.”
- “I snuck into the local gymnasium where the Derby was going to be held, and surveyed the track the day before. Yes, I took slope measurements, etc.”
- “I made my son sleepover at his cousin’s house for a few nights leading up to the Derby…I just didn’t want him fiddling with ‘our’ design. It was a great cover-up.”
- “At one point, I received a tip from a fellow dad on where to get cheap, rare Pinewood car parts. Before I knew it, I was meeting a guy in an unmarked white utility van in an alley behind a local strip mall, with the hood of my jacket up, and sifting through brown paper bags of parts. Not my proudest moment.”
- “If we won, my son wanted to put the trophy on his dresser. We did. It’s now on the mantle.”
- “After we won, we had my son’s name engraved on the trophy…below mine.”
- “A few times a year, I dig up my old Pinewood Derby cars and race them in my basement by myself”
- “I was caught paging through my older son’s high school math book, taking notes about ‘slope’…At which point, I realized I MAY have been taking this whole Pinewood Derby thing too seriously.”
- “I went so far as to look up prices online for flights to China…I know a lot of Pinewood kits are made there.”
Share your Pinewood Confession
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#2
I entered a contest saying that my daughters help make the pinewood derby cars.When you know I made them.
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#1
Two days before weigh in me and another dad who had a full scale test track set up in in his basement tested our cars for over 6 hours. No kids were present at the time. I won the reginals that year. My car had over 100 hours of build time in it.
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