You Might Be a HW Collector If...



Here is a joke that a friend found on the web and e-mailed me. I had to post it on my site, I hope you find it as funny as I did. How many of these apply to you? If you think of any more, e-mail me and I wil be glad to add them.



You are going out of town on vacation, and you research in advance where all of the Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and other toys stores are at, then you plan your trip around them...

You`ve bought a car for $10 or more, and then found it later in the stores...

You hide your new finds in the closet so your wife won't find them and freek out...

You have a whole room dedicated to Hotwheels...

You have told everybody to buy you Hotwheels for Christmas, birthdays, or any other occasion...

You talk your wife/girlfriend into building a new room on the house for your Hot Wheels...

You have opened a charge account just for Hotwheels...

You do with out lunch for a week just so you can buy more Hotwheels...

You look for reasons to go to any store...

You save empty cans to buy HW...

You see a new car or truck and think boy that would be a nice 1:64 Hot Wheel...

Looking at hotwheels turns you on more than your wife/girlfriend...

You get up at 5:30 in the morning on the weekends to search the stores for new Hot Wheels...

You have a monthy budget that includs Hot Wheel cars...

You have donated blood to buy new Hot Wheels...

No matter how much you try, you can't pass a Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Hills, Target, or Toys-R-Us...

You own more than one color of a model just because it has different wheels...

You see a new wheel variation and buy as many different models with that wheel as you can get your hands on...

You have gotten home from work to find 10 priority mail packages sitting at your front door...

Your mom/wife/girlfriend sends you to the store with two bucks to buy bread for dinner, and you come home with two (2) new Hotwheels...

You have driven 3 hours to another town to buy Hot Wheels...

You stay up all night looking for Hotwheels on the internet...

You find new models on the pegs and you take out a personal loan to buy them...

You volunteer to help your wife/giflfriend clean the house looking for extra change to buy more Hotwheels...

You get excited when your workplace "finally" gets internet access...

Your son or daughter asks: "Dad do REAL cars have Gold Medal Speed Wheels?"...

You and your kids are fighting over who's cars they are...

If the toy store employees know you be name...

If you recognize the Toy's R Us manager's car...

If you've been kicked out of a toy store for running to the Hot Wheels...

If you were an hour late to work because you just had to follow that Toys 'R' Us truck you saw on the freeway in hopes of new Hot Wheels...

The only box suitable for storing duplicates is a 72 case assortment box...

You had your driveway painted orange with a checkered mailbox...

You're workbench at home has more Hot Wheels on it than tools...

You buy a PO Box (even if you have mail service to your house) so your spouse does not notice you are buying hot wheels...

You rephrase an old saying by inserting the words "Hot Wheels" where necessary...

Your wife finds your new stash in the cubbie hole of your van, and you tell her they have been there for 2 months, You forget to take the reciept out, and the receipt says yesterday's date on it...

You don't allow the cashier to bag the Hot Wheels you just bought...

You take the Hot Wheel backer card to a home improvements store so they can match the color for your Hot Wheel room...

You take the Hot Wheel stickers from your kids toys and put them on your own car...

You ask the clerk at Walmart if they make the Hot Wheels bedspread in a California King size...

You tell the body shop that you want them to match the paint from your favorite Hot Wheel casting...

You search the bottom of swimming pools looking for change to buy more...

You tell the clerk at the store this cart of cars is for children that you don't have or plan to share with...

You told your girlfriend that you have had all these since childhood...

You bought your girlfriends brother some--got him hooked and you blame him for this...

You drive to 8 different towns in 2 different states in 9 hours, to find 2 new cars, and find them the next day at the Wal-Mart across town...

Your lay-away accounts excede your monthly income...

If you've ever used "Christmas Shopping" as an excuse to hunt without your wife knowing...


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