You Know You're a True Rennie if...

[William Blackheath]

People you've taken to Faire as guests start going on their own.
(I've taken my brother and sister in law to Bristol and Michigan for four years and this year they started to go to MIRF on their own.  *Sniff* They grow up so fast!)

Said sister in law finds a tiny kitten in her garden and, rather than miss faire, puts it in a basket and takes it with her.
(MIRF this past weekend.)

Said brother, at the end of the final day, turns and asks, "So what do we do until faire starts again next summer?
(MIRF again, Sunday evening.)

[renfairewench]

People you've taken to Faire as guests start going on their own.
(I've taken my brother and sister in law to Bristol and Michigan for four years and this year they started to go to MIRF on their own.  *Sniff* They grow up so fast!)

Said sister in law finds a tiny kitten in her garden and, rather than miss faire, puts it in a basket and takes it with her.
(MIRF this past weekend.)

Said brother, at the end of the final day, turns and asks, "So what do we do until faire starts again next summer?
(MIRF again, Sunday evening.)

You must be so proud!!! 

[Adriana Rose]

You start to lecture your 1 year old that its not nice to hit people with a sword when they dont have one and end up laughing at your self! (so much for that lesson)

[Cap'n Hunnar Graybeard]

When you attend your first Faire in mundane clothes and the second day you break the bank buying your first set of garb!

[Amyj]

When your family has your memorial service at faire, at the pub and Three Pints Gone does the Moose Song as a special request just for you, because that is just the way you would have wanted it!  Huzzah Ray, you will be with us and at faire always!!!!

[jcbanner]

...When you find out that 3 Pints Gone has song the Moose song and your upset that you missed it because you were getting ready for a shootout with some pirates and the french military at the time.

...When your friends always laugh when they call you and ask what your up to because when they get answers like the one above, they know your not kidding.

a few recent favorites:

Sorry, cant talk now, I'm:
...building a boat jutting out of a fence.
...choping blocks of wood to make a new roof for the wishing well.
... digging out the creek so that water will drain and the fairies wont be flooded out of the enchanted woods again. 
... busy cleaning a cannon.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

When you are the only people in your church pictorial directory who are dressed in garb.

Steve and I missed the appointment to have our picture taken for our church directory, and the organizers asked us to submit a picture for the book.  At which time we realized we don't have any pictures of us where we aren't wearing garb.  So we sent a picture of us taken at Bristol.

[Danni]

when your car is broken into, and you loose $2000 worth of materials you need to do your job, you are most upset to discover the thief has taken your brand new middle class costume and cape that you spent all off season making and only got to wear for one weekend. Yup, happened to me!

When wearing peasants is considered "dressing down"

(out hear we call patrons turkeys, which you need to know for this) you find yourself doing hand sign for turkey over your head when a drunk gets obnoxious in a mundane pub, and expect someone to know it's a cry for help.

When you call your faire dad (who is a mere four years older than you) "dad" even in the mundane.

You have ever told someone who asked you if there was a faire in town while you were dressed in garb in the mundane, "no, my religion requires me to dress this way."

You want to decapitate the prop master and costumer for The Tutors and have gotten all of your mundane friends to boycott the show!

[Phelyp, Lord Maydestone]

But Danni, the 'scenery' is breathtaking in The Tudors!

[Adriana Rose]

You mean they ACT on the Tudors.....

[Dayna]

When you are So Horrified by the costuming of The Tudors that you and a bunch of your friends contact them and teach them So Much that there is actually a Showtime show made about behind the scenes of The Tudors and at the end of the show are a series of photos of your friends In Garb which They Created!!!

Dayna

[Lady L]

When you are the only people in your church pictorial directory who are dressed in garb.

Steve and I missed the appointment to have our picture taken for our church directory, and the organizers asked us to submit a picture for the book.  At which time we realized we don't have any pictures of us where we aren't wearing garb.  So we sent a picture of us taken at Bristol.

Lady Renee, I just did that! Photos for the church directory were being taken during the run of MNRF, so I wasn't able to make it. Just a few days ago, I emailed a photo of myself in my garb, standing in front of my shop. It was the best and most recent photo I had.

[Var Greyshadow]

...when your mother asks if you have any pictures of yourself not in garb because all you ever send her are pictures in garb, and you wonder why she needs mundane pictures (and you don't think you have any good ones NOT in garb).

(My Mom is actually really cool about faire.  She took me to my first one YEARS ago and even went to TRF once when she was visiting me in the fall.)

[Trillium]

on the same note....
when your parents put together a family history and put pic. of each family in it...and all the pics of "your" family are in garb.

...when your brother makes ren jewelry just for you, to match your garb, without you even asking!  He made me a gorgeous draped/tiered necklace 2 years ago that I wear with my faerie garb and he is now making me a jeweled belt.  I've also inspired him to make some necklaces that can also be headpieces.

[Amras Elfwine]

When you go into a local Starbucks, and the barista looks as you as if she recognizes you, and she says "Hey, aren't you the guy with the squirrel?"

True story!...and, I tipped her big! Still do...