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You manage to guess your (rocketry) birthday gift from your girlfriend given only the website name (some "animal site") :)
For those wondering, it was the black powder dispenser from AMW.
 
You have had more than one fight with your significant other about ruining kitchen utensils in the interest of foam and epoxy mixology.
 
Your wife accuses you of spending too much time in the garage "glassing your tube"
 
A manager you dont even work for gifts you a 3" Company poster tube because "you can probably put it to better use than anyone else".
 
You petitioned NAR to add a level 4 certification so you could have an excuse to build that 1:1 scale Saturn V.
 
you buy the clearance colors of spray paint not knowing what you you will use them for.
 
You go to sleep not by counting sheep but by reciting motor names.

Several major rocket companies have considered replacing their catalog with your phone number.

The spices in the pantry are in plastic bags because you "could fit a motor into the bottles".

You have rockets and launch supplies in your emergency survival kit.

Estes calls you after they have a warehouse fire to replenish their supply.

You had to become an adhesives collector, rocket motor collector, sandpaper collector, rocket part collector, launch supplies collector, and rocket kit collector because your wife said you were wasting too much money on a "hobby".

Your family album only has pictures of rockets.
 
You've used a wire coat hanger to allow yourself to launch after discovering that your launch rod was missing from your flight kit.
 
You had a greater need for this streamer
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Than the road did.
 
Your first tourist stop in London (traveling with wife) is the Imperial War Museum (wife hates war stuff), so I could look at a real V2 rocket. That was only so I could get an idea of what the 1:1 scale V2 we were building at the time was actually going to look like.
 
When your 2.5 year old son is a rocket for Halloween, your wife is an astronaut, your 4 month old son is an alien, and your at work to support your hob... Er family.
 
When you purchase toilet paper, the primary deciding factor is not the quality of the paper but the quality of the tube inside it.
 
You misspell "lunch" as "launch" and your text message still makes sense.

-- Roger
 
...you drop whatever you are doing to watch a 'Rocket Mortgage' commercial on TV!
 
Another one from real life ....

You come to a quick stop at a traffic light and a rocket slides forward, the tip of its nose cone hitting the console and turning off the radio.

-- Roger
 
You have cans of spray paint in your pantry.

-- Roger
 
You invite your best friend and his kids to a Launch....not to get them interested in Rocketry, but because you want a retrieval team.
 
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