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You Might Be a Reenactor If......

• You've ever been chased out of a UDC meeting for "spreading lies about our glorious forefathers!"
• Sleeping outside in the rain and mud is your idea of a fun Saturday night.
• You can identify a regiment by the curses heard from their camp.
• You can't sing without a mug of something in your hand.
• You can spot 100% wool at 30 yards.
• You have ever spent over 300 dollars on clothes that went out of style over 135 years ago.
• You have ever replayed Gettysburg 25 times in a row just to get a glimpse of your foot in the left-hand corner of the screen.
• You've ever uttered the phrase "only 68 more days 'til (pick an event)!"
• You've ever fondled your musket lovingly.
• Your employer says: "Oh are you going out to play that war crap again?"
• Your dinner guests see one of your uniforms and exclaim "Are you in a theatre production"
• Your neighbor's dog is barking due to the high frequency pitch of the fifes playing in your back yard.
• You've stockpiled lots of candles by the back door as a reminder not to forget them.
• You travel over 2000 miles to sleep in tent, at a historic site
• Buy mexican chocolate by the case
• Used your rifle-musket to kill something to eat.
• Name and have slept with your rifle-musket.
• Put on your "Real" clothes just to look at yourself in the mirror
• Don't participate in games that encourage the throwing away of your weapon
• You drive by some open land and think "What a great place for a reenactment!"
• For Men: You wonder how a lady would look in a 1860's period dress
• You've bought or made lead dice.
• You know by heart the lines to: Zulu, Zulu Dawn, The Four Feathers, and ANY Monty Python skit.
• You've worn wool when the temperature tops 100 degrees Fahrenheit, repeatedly.
• You and your spouse are in direct competition over who gets to wear more plumes.
• You've been hit by cap fragments, pulled off ticks, been infested by chiggers, gotten poison ivy, and still look forward to camping out every time.
• There are a couple of cannon balls on stairs.
• Your house needs a coat of paint.
• At holidays ,half the bowls and cups on the dinner table are or tin.
• There are two or three muskets stacked in the parlor corner.
• You laugh at things that others don't find funny.
• There are half completed sewing projects decorating the parlor furniture.
• You've made a career decision based on its impact on your weekends
• You've made a vehicle purchase decision based on how well it accommodates your kit and gets into and out of lost fields
• Your neighbors talk about how your house smells of rotten eggs on Mondays
• On Monday your business associates comment on the funny tan/sunburn line that ends at the hatline
• No one will attend a war movie/historical costume drama with you
• You appreciate "Monty Python"
• Your reenacting wardrobe is more valuable than your business attire
• Your $20,000 car sits out in the weather so your $200 tent can stay in the garage
• You have more reenacting shoes than 20th century shoes
• You spend more on a pair of reenacting shoes than on your "dress" shoes
• You earn a good salary, but are always broke
• Your mailman stays confused (what the heck rank are you in the Reserves anyway?)
• Your kids can correct their history teachers
• You own real books
• You fly strange flags
• Your vanity tag gets lots of comment (1st NH; 2SC)
• Your freezer is full of candles (makes 'em burn longer - really!)
• You're on PETA's hit list (we love animals; we eat them )
• You have more closet space devoted to uniforms than "real" clothes
• You get the "flux" on the way back home
• In the middle of summer, you dread wearing a short sleeved shirt in your air conditioned office, while you can't wait to get to the next event, where you can dress in a long sleeved shirt, with a vest, wool coat, hat, and carry around 40 or 50 pounds of bulky gear on your back, while firing away with your musket, and then relaxing next to your cookfire.
• You have ever been asked at a gas station if you are Amish
• You have ever assessed roadkill as lunchmeat potential
• You win Halloween costume competitions - hands down
• If you answered any or all of the following questions from the public:

Is that a real fire?

Is that real food and do you eat it?

Did you sleep here last night?

Do you sleep in that?

Is that a real sword?

Can that gun shoot?

Do you use real bullets?

Aren't you hot in that uniform?

Do you get wet if it rains?

What did they use for toilet paper?

Don't forget: Are you from the North or the South?

Asked by a kid after a battle: "Did you really die?"