- you've emptied your bank account and used vacation time to follow them on tour.
- you've significantly enhanced parts of your anatomy while smuggling a camera into larger shows, even though to date you've taken 11,982 photos of the band.
- you've worn hand-designed t-shirts to concerts because the commercial ones aren't unique enough.
- you notice immediately when Will changes the lyrics to one line of a song during a live performance.
- when one of their songs plays on the radio or in public, you have to surpress the impulse to yell, "Hey! Pay attention!"
- you've set your alarm for 6:00AM to record some obscure radio or television appearance.
- you own every recording they ever made or played on, even the one in which Kirk or Tres only provided a five second roll or riff for someone else.
- you own several different versions of the same album or song, just because of some minuscule detail is different.
- when conversing with other fans, you refer to the guys by their first names only, as if talking about absent friends.
- you've used lines from songs in everyday conversation, then snickered at your own cleverness. This is especially effective when used in the company of other fans.
- you've named pets after one of the guys or song titles.
- you cried when you discovered your favorite band member had a girlfriend.
- your personalized license plate somehow incorporates Will Hoge.
- your collection of video tapes in the garage has taken up more room than your car because you "save" every clip that mentions Will Hoge.
- you threw away all your childhood toys and mementos to make room for your expanding collection of Will Hoge "stuff".
- you own more CD's of Will Hoge than CD's you own by all other bands put together.
- you own more photos of Will Hoge than of people you actually know.
- you named your first born son or daughter after a band member.
- your "best friend" is a person who lives one thousand miles away but is the only person who really understands how you feel about Will Hoge.
- you played one of their songs at your own wedding.
- your photo developer begins to wonder how you're related to Will Hoge.