I heard two more the first time I ever saw these... I think they were:
- You refer to the intersection nearest to your driveway as "Turn 1"
- You always take the racing line through the grocery store aisles.
and here's a few more you might can relate to...
- Your garage is full of tires but you don't have a spare for your wife's car.
- Your are constantly trying to justify to your wife why you need another set of wheels.
- You hate getting up early in the morning but somehow manage to get out of bed at 4:30 a.m. on race days.
- You stop work in the middle of the day to check your favorite racing forums.
- You should have been fired years ago for spending more time on racing stuff than on your actual job.
- You are outside scraping the snow and ice off your daily driver so your race car can sit in the garage.
- You are trying to figure out how to explain to your family that there's not enough money to take the kids to Disney this year while hiding the fact that you spent twice that much on racing already.
- You search online for car parts that you don't need, just in case something breaks at the next event.
- You are presented with a ten page list of violations you've committed which are against the local homeowner's association rules.
- You fake a heart attack and go to the hospital when your wife says she plans to spend as much money on her hobby as you do on yours.
- You criticize the ambulance driver for not taking the proper line through the corners.
- You keep modifying the cars on your son's electric race car set to go faster.
- You keep finding nuts, bolts and small tools in the bottom of the washing machine.
- You buy a perfectly good car and take out the radio, AC, speakers and power accessories.
- You drive on cheap, crummy tires every day so you can have the best tires possible for the race.
- You are online shopping for your next car within 24 hours of getting home with the one you just bought.
- You are trying to convince your wife that having three parts cars is going to save the family money and that having four is even better.
- You telecommute from home, but somehow your desk is underneath your race car.
- You have a hydraulic lift in your garage.
- You have a separate garage from the main garage, and they are both "oversized."
- Your realtor thought you were crazy because all of your requirements related to the garage.
- Your bank asked for collateral and you showed them $10,000 in receipts for performance parts installed on a vehicle with a book value of only eight hundred dollars.
- You scheduled your wedding so as not to conflict with the upcoming race events.
- You further picked a weekend that was not likely to cause problems with the big annual races.
- You would only marry a woman that could "qualify" by showing you that she knew the proper racing line.
- You have car parts catalogs in your bathrooms for leisurely reading.
- Your garage is neater and cleaner than your bedroom and you see nothing wrong with that.
- You have grease stains on all of your sinks and you think the bar of soap is supposed to be black.
- You have three spares of all critical car parts but don't remember where two of them are.
- No one but your mother has any idea what color your fingernails are supposed to be.
- Your kitchen counters are filthy but your engine is clean enough to eat off of.
- You have a number of pictures of race cars on your desk at work, but don't know where the one is of your significant other.
- You put racing stripes on your silverware and numbers on the dinner plates.
- You think of ways to improve your driving skills every time you get in the car.
- You think of ways to improve your driving skills even when you aren't in the car.
- You buy a new set of street tires for your daily driver and can't wait until they are worn down to the wear bars.
- You have a monthly appointment with the "Snap On" tool guy.
- Your insurance agent thanks you often for your business and fears bankruptcy when you mention changing companies.
- You are on a first name business with all of the overnight delivery drivers that stop at your house.
- You store new race tires in your living room.
- You are reading this during work hours.
- You are laughing because of how many of these fit your lifestyle.
and on it goes....
Sad isn't it?
okay back to work!!!
Miles
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