The Force is very strong with my females! I cannot use standard Jedi mind control techniques on them - females are mostly impervious to this - unless major treats are in the offering! In fairness to my wife, she does and has to put up with a lot of my aviation obsession over the years - aeroplane prints on the walls in the house (2 x F-105, 1 x X-15, plus I have a Neil Armstrong on the moon print), book case full of aviation books, aviation books falling off my bedside table. She's suffered over the years as a "weekend aviation widow" at times with me ducking off to Moorabbin, or further afield going to akro competitions or practice field days, etc. I even took her up in the Pitts once - she'll never do that again! Every time someone kills themselves in a little aerobatic plane, I end up having to explain what I know about how it possibly happened and why this would not happen to me (
) , so really she is pretty amazing and super understanding of my obsession overall. I have to be careful not to ram this down all their throats too much. Selling my share in the Laser really hurt (more so now), but at least gives the family a break from me disappearing for a day on the weekend - not that I did this every weekend. Pulling off explaining to the wife why I really needed to buy a share in a Laser years ago was by out and far my greatest negotiating achievement - perhaps my Jedi mind control technique actually worked that night!
I fear my eldest and middle girl are too far gone towards the "Dark Side", but I have some hope for my youngest - she even has a Scalectrix set - c/w a green Camaro and a burnt orange Challenger! When we play, I always hog the Challenger!