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

[GirlChris]

You spend a whole evening dressed as a historically accurate Anglo-Saxon peasant, complete with accessories. No real reason. You just felt like playing dress-up.

[Ginette]

... your parents have to ask you to put things on your birthday list that don't relate to garb or faire.  Birthday is on the 20th and everything is garb or faire related.  Even the fabric to make garb.

[AnnMarie B]

You spend hours making your 3-year-old some gypsy garb so he can "be just like Daddy"  Daddy says, "Make sure it looks really good.  I'd rather have them mundane than in something cheesy!" Oh, the horror!

[CatAshtrophy]

I can't wait to see his gypsy garb. He's gonna be so adorable.

[Maeve McMayhem]

.. you cruise for groceries and other such related items at the local store but you keep an eye open for anything that could POSSIBLY be converted to Renaissance for your garb.

..  You listen to the cd's you bought the year before at the faires you visited, ALL THE TIME. Work, Check. Home, Check. Driving in the car, Check. Singing in the shower to them, Check.

..  Like a mad-person, you spend the non-faire months obsessing, planning and listing all the things you need to do before faire starts again. Sometimes you even write your lists three or four times, just because you want to be doing something even remotely related to the faire.

.. You husband, who in highschool made fun of the chorus teacher for wearing a kilt, has now ordered a kilt and bought accessories for it and on top of that is EXCITED to wear it! Huzzah! All good wenches like a kilted man.

[Taffy Saltwater]

All the kilted men like bad wenches!

[LadyElizabeth]

... and sheep!!   

[jinx]

All the kilted men like bad wenches!

... and sheep!!   

Which is exactly why I have a stuffed sheep hanging from a set of handcuffs on my belt.    It's my Scotsman Attraction Device.

[tiberiusflynn]

You spend a whole evening dressed as a historically accurate Anglo-Saxon peasant, complete with accessories. No real reason. You just felt like playing dress-up.

Thank God someone else does this.....lol. Makes me feel better. I'll spend my evenings on my balcony, with a lantern, smoking a pipe, drinking rum out of a bottle, and learning how to tie knots in a rope, or reading a new history book....

All while dressed in 1750's pirate garb. heh heh.

[Dayna]

... your parents have to ask you to put things on your birthday list that don't relate to garb or faire.  Birthday is on the 20th and everything is garb or faire related.  Even the fabric to make garb.

Now why would you want to do something like that, don't they know that Faire is Everything!!!???

Dayna

[Var Greyshadow]

Mine just give me money and let me go buy whatever I want, since TRF opens right after my birthday.

[Cobaltblu]

The cops just nod to you when they see you walking down the street with your sword on your back...instead of calling the SWAT Team.

[CinderellaInAFairytale]

...your entire day is planned around what shows have shade, and what time the pub sings are so you can cool down in 100 degree heat.

...everyone you work with knows not to touch you until wensday when the sunburn from the weekend before has calmed down.

[Cap'n Hunnar Graybeard]

When you leave a tip at a restaurant and wonder why you didn't hear "Huzzah for the tipper".

[*Teach*]

When you and the wife decide to build a house and realize that it will likely be finished in the middle of faire and now are stuck wondering if you should either try to speed things up or slow them down so that you will have friends available to help you move

*it's a lot of rum...*