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

[Synikul]

You buy one of these things at a time like this because you need it maybe 15 weekends of the year for fairs and sci-fi conventions.

BTW used SUVs are selling way below bluebook now. Everyone is trading them in because of the price of gas.

[AnyuBoo]

- You (even though you can't afford it) contemplate buying a large van or even RV just so you can have a proper "Faire-mobile" with plenty of space for garb. 

[Valida]

- when told you will be having knee surgery and out of work for 6 weeks, you make yourself feel better by thinking of all of the garb that you can make in that time.

-you try to schedule the proceedure so you're mobile enough to be able to attend Faire the weekend you planned (two months ago).

- you decide that you are going to go to faire, and just count it as extra physical therapy if your doctor asks about it.

-you plan your new garb to accommodate your crutches and wonder on the legistics of crutches + bodice or corset.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

When your friend shows up with a bullet out of a gun that your brother would like to fire and a dagger and you run off with the dagger and refuse to give it back until you've examine the peace which turned out to be way cool. and really old.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

When you atart looking down on those dressed beneath your station (Wenches, peasants, Pirates and barbarians)

When you enjoy people bowing before you as you walk by.

When people give you more respect because of how you are dressed.

When you consider tossing all your mundane clothing out and start living full time in Renaissance Garb.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

when you consider wearing a sword all the time. cause you like the way it feels at your side and you miss it when you take it off

[reamsjp]

When you put off buying mundane shoes so you can get custom renn boots.

[raevyncait]

You drive 3 hours each way for an hour and a half CD release party, not only to see your friend who is releasing the CD, but also in an effort to stave off Faire withdrawal a little bit longer...

[Dayna]

You give up on mundane shoes and wear Nothing but renn boots 

[reamsjp]

If only I could give up mundane footware.

... If you use free wireless to post on this forum on your work break.

[taylorl76]

you have a 2 hour conversation on the way to VARF about Henry the VIII and Elizabeth.....why Cromwell was such a poopyhead and which step mother Elizabeth and Mary liked best.

[Emerald Shaunassey]

...You have to find a summer job that will allow you to have weekends off to work or attend faire.  (Guilty!) 

...You find absolutely nothing wrong with experiencing bodice-gasm in the middle of the parking lot after faire. 

...You are not embarrassed by walking into public establishments after a day of faire still in garb. 

GUILTY as Charged on all three points - save.. I took Per Diem work for my year round job just so I could have time off for faires... and my bosses didn't blink an eye and though it a great thing.


You know you are a true Rennie when ....

.... You go in for your interview with the Chief Nurse Officer, explain that you own a stage show that travels and performs and she doesn't have an issue with what you do on the weekends.  And then the CEO of the hospital tosses out the idea of hiring your troupe to do company parties!  tee hee.

.... You get off work, change clothes and jump into the Rennie-Mobile to travel 5 hours to Tx for one day, return to your original starting destination to re-pack for the weekend then take off on a 9 hour drive to perform all weekend in Ne.  Then make the return trip home on Sunday night after faire so you can be back to work on Monday night.  Then repeat for the next 5 weekends - visiting 4 different festivals in that time.

.... You decorate your house in the "Renn" style - Claymore on the wall with family tartans draped from it, have faire posters on the walls, framed pictures of you and your closest rennie family on the walls, entertainment stand, etc.

.... You can name the exact start and end dates for the faires you visit and/or perform at each year .... without looking at the next year's calendar. 

.... You can name the Monarchs of the faires .... by their mundane name ... but still refer to them as "Your Majesty" ... even when His Majesty is in the floor playing with his pet corgies

.... You can correctly name and identify the Lundegaard Guilds pins

.... You can tell the difference between a custom pair of Son of Sandalar, Bald Mountain, Catskill Mountain, NativEarth, or Turtle Island boots/shoes.

.... You can spot a Pendragon bodice or doublet from 10 yards away

[Count Adolfo]

when a co-worker asks you what you've been up to, you tell them which Faires you've been to so far this year and what remains on your schedule through year's end... even though they actually meant in general.

You set your Faire schedule as the thing all your other plans have to be made around.

[DT_Masters]

....you are having dinner at your dining room table, with wine and cheese, and can see yourself with someone playing a Lute as you dine alone. (of course, I also have visions of being Kate Bowman on Mars One or Mad Jack Kelso aboard the Tiburon!)

......you find that your free time thoughts are occuppied with how to go native at the next Fest .....4-5 months down the road.

[1stmatematt]

...You wear your cloak to a movie.