Because you need something to read during server maintance...
Last Count: 373 You Know You Play Too Much World of Warcraft When... ...you make a ykyptmwoww list. ...you own the atlas. ...you consider getting one of those "official" game guides even though you know it's probably already out of date. ...you change your homepage to Thottbot/WOWHead/etc. ...you make a website devoted to your WoW character. ...you spend over 8 hours straight online playing. ...those 8 hours are during the night/morning & you didn't get any sleep. ...you consider going back on after stopping for those 8 hours. ...you consider getting the artbook. ...you own the artbook. ...you make your own WoW wallpaper. ...the wallpaper features your character(s). ...you can't wait for Blizzard to release the Burning Crusade ep. ...you already preordered your copy. ...you know the meaning of "my night elf is mining". ...you get confused or upset because you can't walk through people in real life. ...you own the Collector's Edtion of the Burning Crusade, and you did something insane to get it. ...you have more than 4 level 60 characters. ...you refer to getting in trouble with your boss as "pulling aggro". ...you wish you could set your hearthstone to some place tropical (or snowy depending on your taste). ...you avoid most bodies of water for fear of murlocs coming after you. ...you refer to your car/bike/suv/etc as your "mount". ...you wonder if you have to exalted with a car company or country before buying your car. ...you don't feel "at home" until you've logged into World of Warcraft (& go to your home city). ...you get to a new city or town in the real world & you start looking for the flight master. ...you think of organizing a raid on a rival sports team's city or town. ...you go to buy a purse/messanger bag or backpack, & your first question is "How many slots does it have?" ...you try to order a "Curiously Tasty Omelet" at IHOP. ...you wish you were a Paladin or Warlock in the real world just so you could have a free car. ...you wonder why a little gear doesn't appear when you go to open something. ...you wonder how high your locking picking skill has to be to open things in the real world. ...you want to refer to your "to-do" list as your "quest log." ...you refer to your workday as "rest bonus time." ...you tell someone to go to the Exodar instead of the Exxon station. ...when you see the word "school" and read it as "Scholo," even though it's on the side of a school bus. ...when you pass a street called Suitland on your way to work and read it (every. single. time.) as Outland. ...when your friend has to go AFK because she's got what she calls parental aggro, and you tell her, "If you run far enough they'll eventually go back!" ...you constantly try to click to change camera angle on all screenshots/pictures you look at online. ...you make your own WoW screensaver. ...you tell someone who is annoying you to DIAF. ...you have ever used the word "Leeroy" as a verb in a conversaion IRL. ...you see plants/flowers and contemplate what WoW plant they look like. ...you tell someone you need to finish this quest before you can go to lunch. ...when you see flora on the side of the road and you are tempted to swerve the car off the road, shouting, "BRB, herb!" ...you begin to consider how you would handle bad drivers "in game". ...you have a lisence plate that reads: 4DAHORDE (someone has actually seen this) ...your RL friends call you by your main characters name. ...your 4-year-old brother knows that the Alliance (or Horde) are the bad guys. ...your 4 year old brother was inspired to make his own character. ...you see more of one of your RL friends in game than IRL. ...the first thing each of you says to the other IRL is not "hi" but something WoW related. ...your spouse or lover wonders what they have to do to have sex with you and you reply "First, go kill 6 boars." ...while on long road trips, you think to yourself "too bad I can't click to follow." ...again, while on long road trips, your significant other looks at you and says "we need a portal to (insert city name here)" ...the "inside joke" in your group of RL friends consists of something that happened while playing WOW. ...you've created a spreadsheet (or word doc) that lists out of all your characters, your RL friends characters, their races, classes, and professions, as a quick reference guide to make sure "everything was covered." ...you no longer talk to your RL friends that don't play WOW because you "don't have time to, unless they're in game". ...your cell phone's ringtone is WOW inspired ...you start thinking of your co-workers in terms of what their WoW counterparts would be. ...you put a screenshot from WoW as your desktop background, and the first time you alt-tab out of WoW, you try to change the angle on the pic. ...you get seperated from your wife in the grocery store and upon finding her again you shout, "We weren't even grouped." ...you drink something, hoping to get a "well fed" buff. ...mis-hear 'Gadsden, Alabama' as 'Gadgetzan, Alabama.' ...you see a road sign for "Aberdeen" coming off the interstate and you see "Auberdine" instead. (Just a boat-ride away from Wetlands!) ...you give people walking their dogs an extra wide berth so you don't aggro them. ...you want to skin roadkill. ...you ask if someone can port you to New York (or Paris or Tokyo, etc etc). ...you think Hiro from the tv show Heros would make an awesome Mage. ...you ask a friend who knows how to use swords (or guns) where the weapons trainer is. ...you go to a gun show and start asking gun dealers about dps, level requirements, etc. ...you find yourself doing an "idle animation" while waiting for the slower members of your group. ...you size up mailboxes to see if they will take your weight for a quick dance. ...you're driving down a road and you see a colorful tent and you think "oh, the Darkmoon Faire must be in town". ...you farm green spiders near the Tarren Mill for three hours. After that you see green spiders everywhere. ...when planning your Thanksgiving holiday plans, you wonder how much silver it will run you to fly the gryphon to your parents' house. ...you wonder why all the hunters have the same pet when you walk through your local dog park. ...you find yourself comparing the BART's Transbay tunnel to the Deep Run Tram, except that the Transbay tunnel doesn't have that nifty aquarium feel. ...you refer to your hoodie as your +15 Hoodie of Coolness. ...North Carolina was that zone with all the felcones everywhere. ...you talk to your brother more as a gnome than over the phone. ...you promise not to kick your little brother out of the house for playing said gnome instead of his perfectly nice Tauren. ...your idea of a good time spent with friends means a Sunday afternoon raid on the Deadmines. Or the Wailing Caverns. ...your idea of a better time spent with friends means a Sunday afternoon kicking ass in WSG. ...you end up blogging about WoW. ...you wonder why a five foot staff won't fit in your bookbag. (But you had an open slot!!) ..."Elune be praised" is the first thing you say upon meeting one of the clergy. ...you don't look for the mall directory...instead, you look for the nearest security guard, point, and say "Right click!" ...you won't get a car, but rather a motorcycle because "That's my class mount." ...your idea of a pick-up line is "/flirt." ...or any of the racial pick-up lines, verbatim. ("Wanna bring out the animal in me?") ...it's not rush-hour traffic, it's peak-hour lag. ...you call 911 to report gold farming. ...you get married and, as you kiss, someone says "ding!" ...when your child is born. You say "W00t! Is there an officer to add her to the guild?" ...it takes you 18 hours to do your taxes yet you know off the top of your head how much DPS you'll gain from one point of Dagger Specialization and two points of Dual Wield. ...you realize that if you went to sleep right now, you would only get 5 hours of sleep before work...and decide you could probably function on only 4. ...your eye doctor is puzzled by what seems to be a little face and a green and blue bar burned into a corner of your retina. ...you finally get your Darnassus reputation to "exalted," only to find out that your Wife reputation has fallen to "unfriendly." ...you see little yellow exclamation points over your bosses heads... ...before you get in your car you roll your hands together. ...you play at 2:00 am after everyone in the household threatens you with knives and deletion of characters. You are the last one because you only had a butter knife. ...you�re in a meeting with the boss and you wonder �If I sheep him I can go to the bathroom and be back before he transforms back�. ...all you do all day at work is watch PVP videos when you should be working. ...you wake up at your keyboard and you see you've gained levels or gotten stuff and don't remeber it. (hint: you did it in your sleep) ...you go to the store and start auctioning for the last roll of bread. ...you watch wow movies and you try to right click to look around. ...you�re typing into party chat to convey a message to the person sitting with you in the same room. ...someone is riding your butt on the way to work and you consider your level, their level plus gear (ie, types of vehicles), and you are able to calculate the amount of damage you can deal, because of the amount of Rage you have built up. ...you're on vacation and the only thing you can think about is �Where is my hearthstone set?� ...you say grats to someone on their birthday. ...you say �Back slash cry� , �Back slash slap� or "Back slash Dance� to your friends in real life instead of actually doing it. ...you are late to work, and you give your boss a 10 foot birth to try to avoid gaining his aggro. ...your little brother asks you to make him a sandwich and you say �bring me the mats� ...you�re threatened with torture of either bamboo under the fingernails or farming Timbermaw rep and you�re reply is, �Can I get back to you on that one?� ...it's 8 o'clock p.m. and you realize you havent moved out of your chair since yesterday. ...you see a motorcyclist with a red bandana over his face and you think "Defias Bandit". ...your husband calls you from work, and asks you to go on his character and see if his stuff sold at the AH. ...you call your boss at work to ask for the day off.. so you can grind a few levels out.. and he says �Fine you can have the day off, but that will cost you 20g. ...your boss lets you outta work early, cause you signed up for a guild raid. ...you request a few days off from work.. cause you are almost to lvl 60 (or 70). ...you wonder how easy it would be to blink through traffic. ...you go into a jewelry store and tell the salesperson that you are shopping for BoP ring with good stats! ...you are talking to a friend and he is telling you to meet him somewhere and you ask him if he can just summon you there. ...you and your partner's idea of a night together is playing WoW! ...you think of every sport on television as Warsong Gulch. ...you tell your second half that you�re going to kill Tauren Shaman (his/her main) in Warsong because he�s/she's annoying the hell out of you. ...you go outside to smoke only half a cigarette instead of a whole one because you don�t want to miss anything and you only smoke while your character�s flying from one location to another. ...you used to WoW to quit smoking, only now you're addicted to WoW instead! ...you can�t wait to talk to your guild-mates because they�re more friends to you than your friends in real life are. ...you�re trying to go to sleep but all you can think about is what you�re going to do on WoW tomorrow or get mad at yourself, because you didn�t finish a quest. ...your only social time with your real life friends during server maintenance on Tuesday. ...you develop hostile feelings toward a real life friend because you play Horde and they rolled an Alliance toon.. the bastard! ...you spend your time at work online perfecting your characters spec with Blizzard�s talent calculator instead of actually working. ...you refer to wearing expensive clothing as �twinking�. ...your sibling is annoying you and you try /ignore. ...it�s time for a midnight snack, you go into stealth and say �Vdgeeeew� ...someone irl starts to annoy you, you turn to them, stick out your hands and yell Frost Shock! ...you pass up an expensive dinner to go to BRD. ...you pass up a date with your boyfriend/girlfriend because you signed up for MC. ...your away message reads: "Playing WoW and running ST, BRD, Strat, Scholo, MC, or I am getting keyed for Ony�if you dont already know what that is�good! Then I dont have to worry talking to you." ...or it reads : "Playing WoW if you dont already know what that is�dont ask�. If you do�Servers (server name)�Names (character's name)" ...you program the coffeemaker so you have a fresh pot ready when the raid starts. ...you try to cram all errands and necessities into Tuesday morning so you can get on as soon as maintenance is done. ...the only thing you and your significant other fight about is who gets to play WoW because you share an account. ...you start to wonder what you could have been doing in WoW while you sat here and read all of these. ...your parents &/or non-WoW-playing friends know what DM, BFD, WC, SM, BRD, BWL, MC, etc are. ...you ask your guild mates for help on homework. ...you convert your parents to WoW. ...your sister asks you to kill a spider in her room and you ask what level is it. ...you set your watch and clocks at home to server time. ...you walk into your least favorite class and see in your mind yellow writing that says "You are now Hated With World Civ I." ...you are eating and drinking at the same time and believe that you are recovering mana and health over a period of 30 sec. ...you find yourself dancing the same way that your character on WoW does. ...you go to a new place you happen to blurt out (on accident) "Discovered (na of place): gained 560 exp!" ...you know that Arathi Basin isn't a giant tub in some remote place. ...you fall down or trip you wish you had bubbled yourself so it would absorb the damage. ...you go shopping and ask the clerk, what mobs you gotta grind for the 10% rep discount. ...a friend asks to borrow your stuff, you say "Sorry its Soulbound". ...you decide not to bother eating and drinking anymore, because your spirits so high, you can just sit around and regen. ...you carry all your stuff around with you in 4 bags and a backpack. ...you decide to give up work, because grinding squirells in the park for money is easier! ...you buy a horse, and wonder how you get him into your bag, so you can enter your house. ...you look to buy real money over the internet with WoW gold. ...you go into your local bank and try deposit a sword and a crossbow into your bank account. ...you and your friends get confronted by a gang, you turn to one of your friends and say "Sheep the left one". ...you start placing cardboard cutout skulls, crosses, moons and diamonds over random strangers heads. ...you only turn up to school once every two years to collect your new skills. ...you try something and fail, you blame it on lag. ...you stand outside magic shops with a sign saying "Nerf the locks!" ...nerf doesn't mean that toy that shoots foam arrows at people. ...you go on holiday and are worried because your only wearing "Cloth" armor and no epic sword. ...you get hungry and ask someone to conjure you some muffins and water. ...you steal plants from your neighbours garden to conjure some potions. ...you mistake your sports car for an epic mount, and ask your local mechanic if he specializes in "Mithril Spurs" and "Speed Enhancement" at good wholesale prices. ...you say "grats" each time your microwave says "Ding". ...your boss asks where you have been, and you say "I was AFK". ...you go to the bank and walk right up to the teller regardless of the people in front of you. ...your aim by the end of the week is to hit exalted with the "Employer" faction. ...you're broke at work, knowing your co-workers play, and offer them 100g for $10 for lunch. ...the sun in-game hurts your eyes. ...ask your mom if she can buy you a certain piece of armor or a weapon on WoW for Christmas. ...you are about to punch out at work and you tell your friend who is your ride home "k give me a few seconds I'm going to log out" ...your BF/GF leaves you for a Trekkie because it's less obsessive. ...you go to the grocery store to buy "mats". ...you're walking your dog, and it starts barking at a squirrel, and you think, "Crap, should have set her on defensive." ...your mom/wife tells you to help make dinner and you respond with "My cooking skill isn't high enough!" ...you don't want to be at work because you're "tired of grinding management rep." ...when your mom tries to get you to eat something you say "I'm not a high enough lvl to eat that" ...you go camping with friends, and wish you had some noggin fogger. ...while standing on bridges, you randomly yell out enchants you can do, but clarify that people need to bring their own mats, tips appreciated. ...you drive across country to see a new place, instead of flying, because you�ve never been there and don�t have the FP yet. ...you are in a clothing store, and you tell the cashier politely that you have better gear than what she has to offer because it was a rare drop. But, you would like to know how much it would be to repair your armor because you need to prepare for your next raid. ...the next store you go in, ask the cashier what the stats are on the pants they have, ask if they have a stylish purple shirt to go with it, and how come Ctrl+Click doesn�t let you see what you would look like wearing it. ...your neighbor finds you in her yard picking her roses and bushes, and when questioned, you claim you thought it was mageroyal and briarthorn. Besides, you were only trying to farm swifthistle anyways. You go home disgruntled at the low drop rate. ...you are driving, and keep thinking about pushing �m� so you can see the coordinates and make sure you are heading in the right direction. ...you cry on Monday night. ...you don't call it Christmas anymore instead it's now Feast of Winter Veil. ...you also refer to Easter as Noblegarden and Halloween as Hallow's End. ...you wish you could bloodlust to finish school papers 30% faster. ...you devote more time to WoW than your life. ...you have to explain what it means to kite the police at epic mount speeds 'cause you accidently aggro'd them. ...you slip and fall over in such a way that your foot skids and one of your sandals breaks. Instead of thinking "well dammit, that was my favorite pair of flip-flops!" you think "well dammit, I just took falling damage and my foot armor is red!" ...a customer upsets you at work, instead of covertly making a rude gesture at their retreating back, you mutter "slashrude" at them. ...you reach for the wrong spoon at the table and get your hand swatted by your best friend, who tells you to quit ninja-ing her silverware. ...a customer requests a discount, you accidentally tell them that if they have AAA or AARP, you can nerf the price for them, no problem! ...you refer to going to work as "going to spend 8 hours as an NPC". ...you see an advertisment for Round Table's pepperoni-or-whatever-it-was Artisan pizza and wonder if it can only be made by people with 300 cooking skill. ...you think of geraniums as Mageroyal, thistles as Bruiseweed, and those wierd purple lumpy flowers in front of your workplace as Kingsblood. ...you're thirsty, you yell out /OOM! ...you're being hounded by an annoying drunk guy in a club who's aggro you just can't dump, and think, "Scatter shot, freeze trap, hearthstone!!!!!!" ...you don't "pimp" your "ride", you "twink" your "mount"! ...your friend asks you if you know any places that serve good Mexican food and you tell them "Murlocos Tacos" and mention that they just happen to have the best "fish tacos" in Azeroth. ...you say the above without a second thought and without laughing. ...you ask for a raise and you mention that you'll also take, World of Warcraft gametime cards, epic items, or gold as part of your raise. ...for your Christmas bonus, your boss gives you the money for your epic flying mount. ...you list crafting, farming, participating in the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza, etc as things you do in your spare time. ...you hit an animal with your "mount" and after doing "/mourn", you try to loot and skin it. ...instead of doing your job or school work, you plot what you are going to do once you get back on World of Warcraft. ...instead of typing up an important document for work or taking notes in school you write/type your plans for your next raid. ...you go to your bank and try to take out a loan for your epic flying mount. ...you go into FabricLand and ask if they have a few bolts of netherweave cloth. ...you walk in Teavana and ask for silverleaf instead of Silver Needle. ...after the trip to Teavana, you wonder what other herbs would make good teas (Firebloom tea sounds interesting...). ...you ask if anyone is a level 70 healer, because you have a killer migraine. ...you're giving back a customer's change back and say: "Here is your quest reward! Four gold and three silver!" ...tell your friend you are checking to see if you "had enough gold to pay the mage for a portal." ...you then think if "paying the flight master" would have been better to say. ...you wonder if you skin the helboars in Hellfire Peninsula and then use their leather to make your armor, if you would survive being stepped on by a Fel Reaver. ...you find yourself calling the home of a guildie you've never met in person and saying something along the lines of, "Hi, may I speak to (long pause as I realize I don't know her real name) Mystic? This is Gal. Um. In World of Warcraft. I'm Eeedge in real life." (true story) ...you join the LFG channel for a good laugh. ...your dreams are saturated with night elves and quest hand-ins. ...you schedule your day around WoW. ...you celebrate hitting 60/70 with more gusto than you celebrate your own birthday. ...you have already planned out your character for the expansion. ...you promote nerfing warlocks to your coworkers. ...you post a personal add that says "turn-ons include raiding the UBRS for epic gear, farming SM, and bringing doom to the Horde". ...you've seen those tips at the loading screen so many times that you've memorized them all. ...you say bye when leaving your friend's house by saying "I'm hearthing". ...you no longer try to shut stupid people up in gen chat because you know it's a lost battle. ...you can only eat or drink while sitting. ...it's not "Age/Sex/Location" to you, it's "Race/Class/Professions". ...you went to the zoo and tried to tame a cougar, claiming that it had a 1.0 attack speed and that you had to have it. ...you cook something over and over until it becomes menial to you, and then you move on to the next recipe. ...you post your resume with a note that says "300 babysitter LFG, all dinners cooked free with mats". ...you are in the forest and see a bear and you try to make him your pet. ...you yell �LFG� when being picked for sports teams. ...you inspect people�s clothing to see if they are enchanted. ...you don�t know someone�s name and you look above their head. ...you go to a funeral and you try to loot the corpse. ...you pass a cop and wonder if you just aggroed him. ...you ask a store clerk how much you can sell your shoes for. ...you visit airports just to get more flight paths. ...you ask to be Master Looter when shopping at the mall. ...you wonder if real wolves have belts and shoes on them. ...you pick up a rock and try to use it as a hearthstone. ...talking cows and zombies don�t scare you. ...you brag to your friends that your belt gives you +5 stamina. ...you think life ends at age 70. ...you ask the nearest police officer where the closest weapon vendor is. ...you try to book a trip to Azeroth. ...you walk into a bar and ask for Stratholm Holy Water. ...you get mad when you�re not allowed to deposit your weapons in the bank. ...you run around the streets wearing nothing but underwear, shouting �GOLD PLS!� ...you buy a horse on your 40th birthday. ...you buy an even better horse on your 60th birthday. ...you buy a small plane on your 70th birthday. ...you climb on top of your mailbox and dance. ...you are still reading this. ...you go to a car dealer and ask whether the cars will increase your speed by 60% or by 100%. ...you ask whether mithril spurs are an option. ...you try to find a Mini Diablo at the local pet store. ...you walk to the next nearest city so you can fly there next time. ...you stop wondering why your backpack can hold 16 pairs of boots, but can�t hold 17 rings. ...you go to a park and pick flowers to improve your Herbalism skill. ...you start mining stones. ...you melt pennies and try to turn them into copper bars. ...someone asks you where something is and you yell at them to look it up on thottbot. ...you ignore a level 60 demon, but remember when you ran screaming from a level 5 bear. ...you ride the bus to work, telling everyone that you�re saving up for your epic mount. ...you rip your pants and try to have them fixed at a blacksmith shop. ...you look for the NumLock button when driving in your car. ...no matter what you�re doing on your computer, you first put three fingers on the A, W, and D keys. ...you drink ten cans of RedBull to increase your run speed by 30%. ...you ask everyone you meet, �Wanna join my guild?� ...someone asks you to pick up something for them and you say �Inventory is Full.� ...you take the subway and wish it had an underground aquarium. ...you start expecting rewards for doing work. ...a beautiful girl asks you out on a date. You refuse because your guild is doing a Naxx raid. ...you didn�t think the World of Warcraft South Park episode was all that funny. ...you check your in-game mail to see how your auctions are doing before you check your email. ...you see �WoW� in advertisements, you wonder why they got the capitalization wrong. ...collect the trading cards, but don't play the game. ...collect the trading cards and play. When you lose, you log into World of Warcraft and gank the winner. ...you think of black widow spiders as elites. ...you've actually walked up to someone and said "my, you're a tall one". ...you plan to name your children after people in the WarCraft lore. ...you see someone wearing designer clothes and think "twink". ...you not only use this as a checklist, you actually do things in game you never would have thought of doing before you read this list. ...having read this, you now want to play. ...you /cheer-ed when this list reached 300. ...you walk into a wall or door in real life and blame it on lag. ...you know how to write so that the other side can understand you. ...you can read, write and speak one or more of the WarCraft langauges. ...in your personal ad you write that you enjoy long walks on the beach and killing nagas (or murlocs). ...you refer to buying or doing things for your significant other as reputation building. ...you tell your significant other or friend that they will get +__ reputation if they do or get something for you. ...when asked why you didn't do you homework, you say tha you can only learn two professions and that class wasn't one of them. ...you think you've gained weight since getting your mount, because you don't run everywhere any more. ...you see someone with a World of WarCraft credit card and try to recruit them into your guild only to learn they play for the opposite faction. ...you wonder how someone can wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time. ...you say "/roll" before you roll dice. ...you watched "The Guild" on youtube (watchtheguild), and realized you know people just like the characters. ...you plan to get married in the Catherdrel of Light in Stormwind or The Temple of the Moon. ...your guild tailor made the dress and tux for the wedding. ...your guild master performed the marriage and your entire guild attended the ceremony. ...the GMs know you and every one of your chracters. ...you use words from Warcraft when filling out MadLibs. ...while trapped in the real world you made a World of Warcraft themed MadLib book. ...your guild mates filled them out on Tuesday. ...you actually started a World of Warcraft club where you talk about World of Warcraft, but you only meet on Tuesdays. ...you tried to hold a live event for your guild, but everyone brought their computers or laptops, so you ended up running a raid anyway. ...you harrassed your local GameStop everyday until the Collector's Edition of WotLK was available for preorder. ...you crank up the volume, put in one of the soundtracks and drive around with the windows down just to see if you meet any other WoW players. ...you see someone wearing t-shirt of the opposite faction and text you friends saying "there's (faction) flagged for PVP". ...you will randomly walk up to anyone with a WoW t-shirt and ask them what realm they play. ...you /cheered when you found out WotLK was coming out on you birthday (November 13!). ...if your son is born on the date WotLK is released, you plan on naming him Arthas. ...you have already put in for your vacation so you can play WotLK as soon as you get it. ...you have your costume ready and your weapon to defend your copy of the Collector's Edition of WotLK during the midnight opening of WotLK. ...you've become an achievement whore. ...you finally understand people who play the Xbox 360. ...you took the time to painstalkingly recreate each "flimsy mask" from Hallow's End. ...you showed up over 3 hours early for the midnight launch of WotLK. ...you use duels to decide who does what chore around the house (best 2 out of 3?). ...after hearing you weren't the first level 80, you consider transfering to another server so you could get the achievement. ...you used your time on the beta to plan out where to go and what quests to take for each of your characters. ...you got upset when they removed achievement to collect the masks AFTER you killed yourself trying to get all of them... ...your girlfriend/boyfriends' pants are an epic drop. ...you type /r in AIM/MSN/etc when responding. ...you try feigning death when being chased by the police. ...while getting the address for a family gathering, you tell your sister "Oh don't worry, I'll just Thottbot it." ...your thinking to myself while walking to class, "Ugh, so many people on the hall, I better not lag". ...you hear somebody speak in a scottish accent and you realise that you are shocked they are of normal height/not hairy. ...you scan graveyards as you walk past checking for respawn. ...you almost drown when you realise you don't have "Neverending Breath" ...you think its strange that people celebrate New Years on January 1st. ...you went on eBay in search of Haris Pilton's "Gigantique" bag. ...you forget someone's name so you look above their head to check. ...you /cheered when The Guild came out with a second season. ...you put "must play WoW Alliance (or Horde) as a requirement to be a room mate or date. ...you made your family get the 10-day free trail so they could attend your in-game wedding. ...most of those people are now addicted to WoW. ...at your reception instead of the traditional ballroom dancing for your first dance you perform your racial dance instead. ...you significant other gives you a strange look when you say "I can't find my cooking icon in my action bars!" and you aren't anywhere near a computer (you're looking for your cookbook). ...your cookbook has a giant cooking spell icon on it. ...you wonder why you can't set up a campfire where ever you want in real life. ...someone askes you to do something and you reply "I don't have enough mana" or "I need more rage!" ...you think the name of the "Well Read" achievement should be renamed "Ophera Windfury's Book Club". ...your jokes start with "A Priest, a Warlock, and a Paladin walk into a bar..." ...you list the items you sold at the AH on your tax returns under "Other Sources of income". ...you drive by a cop and ask yourself "Did I agro him?" ...you see two people having a dramatic moment and mutter "fricken' roleplayers..." ...on trips to the grocery store, you keep insisting on netherweave when they try giving you paper or plastic. ...at McDonald's, you always ask them to "Hogger" size your value meals. ...you try to use your animal forms in real life. ...you wonder how people manage to keep all their companion pets out at one time. ...you wonder why your cat doesn't follow you everywhere you go. ...you actually get seasick on the boats in WoW. ...you wonder why the guy at the gun shop won't repair the hole in your favorite pair of jeans. ...you spent the whole day at the farm trying to do "Cluck!" to get the Westfall chicken. ...before going swimming you ask if anyone could give you the buff for underwater breathing. ...you think of annoying small children and dogs as murlocs and gnolls. ...you tried to buy a Mechano-hog at a Harley Davidson dealer.
Special thanks to World of Warcraft of LiveJournal for some of these YKYPTMWOWW's. Also, thank you to the many people that have contributed to this list.
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