Even Moms Love Our Hobby

[Frank Pittelli <frank-at-rctankcombat.com>]

Here's a nice little moment that I thought everyone might appreciate.

We had a meeting today between a number of battlers from our hobby 
(Will, Steve, Joe and myself) and some guys from a 1/16 scale club in 
Virginia in order to exchange notes about tank modeling, show off our 
tanks and otherwise BS throughout the afternoon.  We had lots of fun 
talking about various aspects of both hobbies and, of course, drove a 
couple vehicles from both clubs around the Tri-Pact Medium Difficulty 
Proving Grounds (TPMDPG).

While we were driving them around, a neighbor and her 9-yr old son came 
to see "all the neat tanks" as the boy exclaimed.  Steve handed him the 
controls of the T34 and, quite naturally, he started driving it around 
looking for something (a) to run into and (b) to shoot at.  His reaction 
was well within the parameters of expectation, but his mother's was 
quite unusual.  Instead of the typical "kind of childish", "boys will be 
boys", or the dreaded, "you'll shoot your eye out" comment we've all 
learned to expect from the opposite sex, this mother stated that she 
thought such a hobby was fantastic, and that it would provide a great 
way to teach kids about engineering.  She wanted to know when her son 
and husband could attend a battle.   And, as they walked away, she 
agreed with her son when he proclaimed that "those are cool tanks".

R/C Tank Combat ... recommended by Mom.

        Frank P.