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

[metalcelt]

You drive two hours north of your home to pick up a Coat that was being made for you. The reason being is you want to wear it to a Faire that is 4 hours east of you!

[Carl Heinz]

OK, let's keep it simple.  You're a true rennie if you enjoy attending Faire.  I don't care if you're a participant, playtron, or someone who show up in shorts and a T-shirt.  If you enjoy it, you're a rennie.

[Malcolm]

...your disabled friend (CP) calls and wants to know when you're coming to paint her new condo, and you answer, "Febuary."

I mean what's the point in driving all the way from Illinois to Tampa if you can't go to BARF.

[Lady Rebecca]

-You've missed coming on here for a month because of school and rehearsals, so you decide to stay up past 4am in an attempt to catch up.

-You realize you've lost over 1.5" off your waist in the last couple of weeks, and instead of being excited, you worry that your bodice (which was already a tiny bit too big) won't fit... Now what am I supposed to do for Halloween?

[Adriana Rose]

take that sucker in! thats the fun about sewing it your self!

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

you're listening to faire music on the CD player while you're sitting knitting, and when the song is over, you forget where you are and yell "huzzah" and start to clap.

Because you just thought you were at faire listening to them and at the end of the songs, you always shout "huzzah."  Then you realize you're sitting in your living room by yourself.

[VIII]

In public, you sneeze (or someone with you does) and you cross yourself, then look around to see other Rennie's doing the same.  Much snickering ensues.

[Lady Rebecca]

When you're temporarily satisfying your Ren Faire withdrawals by going to see Celtic Woman, and while purchasing the tickets, the thought of going in garb crosses your mind. 

[ArielCallista]

...you just stumbled upon this thread and read ALL of it

...you think you see someone you met at Faire in a club, but don't dare speak to them cuz there's no way they'd recognize you in danes

...you will quit your job if they won't give you your faire weekends off

...after hugging your faerie friends, you have discovered that glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. It NEVER comes off!

...you still wear your medieval moccasins (or the like) on the rainiest muddiest day of faire. (still haven't gotten together enough money for good boots)

...you justify going to faire as being good

...you know someone with a spare closet and hate that it isn't being used for garb

...you fly to another state friday morning to go to a faire for the first time, spend all of saturday puking cuz of food poisoning and still wake up at 5am to go sunday even though its over 100degrees, and you haven't been able to keep food down for about 36 hours cuz goddamn it its GARF!

...when you get bored you dig through fabric scraps from other projects to make a bodice cuz you have nothing better to do

...you forget you were talking to someone on facebook because of this forum

...this is the only forum you're on

...food just tastes better if its on a stick

...you wanted to throw your phone out the window and get a new one since you can't access this forum on it but then realize you could use that money for garb so you suck it up and deal with a lame phone

...you wish that the things that don't apply to you on this thread did apply to you

...you crash on a friends couch the night before faire and have another friend drive you home 2 hours away the night after cuz you were kicked out of your dorm for the summer

...you require your boyfriend go with you to faire to find out how compatible you REALLY are

...your favorite birthday "party" was when you went to faire and after went to medieval times still in full garb

...'danes at Medieval times want to take pics with you cuz they think you're part of the show

...your favorite line from Weird Al's song White and Nerdy is "spend every weekend at the renaissance faire"

...your friends have bought you an insult from Christophe the Insultor as a birthday present because you were in a bad mood (seems dumb...but thats what happens when you mix faire and Brucelings)

...you're parents give you a 4GB sd card for your camera cuz they know you won't have time to put pics on your computer until after faire season

...you get flogged for your birthday by 20 people you've never met before and don't feel violated

...you get mad that the special event weekends aren't posted yet even though faire doesn't start for 6months

...you have consumed more rum beer and loki than any other alcohol ever

...you tells jokes that include a mundane, a SCA-er and a Rennie

...you intentionally walk down the boot aisles at shoes stores so you can smell the leather and think of faire (whats worse is I work in a shoe store!)

...you know better than to bone a bodice with boning

...you watch a bunch of fantasy and ren period movies with your boyfriend hoping hell be inspired for his first set of garb (success!)

...you get excited when you pass the knights inn on the way to Scarby

...you demand to stay at the excalibur when in Vegas

...you know that the combined smell of dirt and leather is the greatest smell ever

...you forget we have a president cuz VIII is King

...you wake up 4 hours before you need to leave to make it to cannon. It doesn't take that long to get ready to leave, you've got it down to a fine art...it the excitement that gets you up

...you've had nightmares about SOMEHOW missing opening weekend

...you instinctively cover your ears anytime you here the word cannon

...you snooze your alarm like 6 times on dane days, but don't even need to set one on faire days

...you've lost track of how many of these you've posted...

...you would rather celebrate your 21st birthday at faire than vegas or anywhere else

Speaking of:
OMG! I just realized I'm gonna be turning 21 during next faire season!!!!!!!!!!ON A SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!guess whose gonna get wasted at faire! Me! and everyone who's at scarby that day should hunt me down!

[ArielCallista]

omigod guys I'm so sorry for how long that is! I was reading the whole thread and i wrote down everything that came to mind...
one more

...you've spent over 5 hours reading RF posts

[Tammy]

...you fly to another state friday morning to go to a faire for the first time, spend all of saturday puking cuz of food poisoning and still wake up at 5am to go sunday even though its over 100degrees, and you haven't been able to keep food down for about 36 hours cuz goddamn it its GARF!

This would've been FUNNY if you'd been at BARF!!  Sorry, couldn't help it!

[Rani Zemirah]

... you talk to people you've never actually met in person about the issue of "chafing", and which personal products to use to avoid it, for both men and women, and consider it perfectly normal...

[LadyElizabeth]

**Thanks for posting that Rani!!  It just happened on single and searching thread and I felt completely comfortable having a very long discussion about it on here!! Makes me laugh in retrospect!!**

[Jinglebum]

You constantly have to remind yourself to speak normally in the real world.

It's thank you NOT thank thee, kindly.

[Auryn]

Your birthday is in a couple of days and when people ask you what you want for your birthday you give them a print out of the order form for season passes to your local faire, a pyramid collection catalog thats been earmarked and a Gaelsong catalog thats also been earmarked