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

[Dance_Dance]

...you spend nearly all afternoon reading through all 26 pages of this thread and are looking forward to reading every post afterwards.

...you've ever sat on hay (or a cold, hard stone bench) for an hour to make sure you have a good seat for the last show of the day and ponder why your 'dane friends would waste time waiting in line for a ticket to their favorite show.

...you can successfully argue why faire performances are better than most concerts and plays.

...your favorite personal antidotes are from times that you've spent at the Faire. (Like the time I outwitted a seasoned salesgirl who was trying to make fun of my sister's fiance for wearing jeans with a garb shirt. )

...in high school, when asked to write an essay on where you see yourself in five and ten years, your overall statement is, "With my own Faire store, co-owned by my significant other, traveling from one Faire to the next."

[Lady Rosaline]

you turn down comp tickets for one weekend because you already bought yours ... three months ahead of time.

LOL I have also done that.

[jcbanner]

Your husband sees a fresh road killed fox and rushes home for a knife, so he can cut off its tail and cure it. (for our daughter to wear to faire with her other tails) Hmmmm...

I'v had that same impulse to skin a dead animal I find next to the road.  To date though, I've never complied, who knows how long its been there or what could be on it.

[jcbanner]

You might be a rennie if...

While sitting in class oneday you realize, Your bio teacher would look awsome in armor.  Doesn't have the movie "football jock in armor" type look, has a genuine "he belongs in armor" look!

[Tipsy Gypsy]

...Sir William Marcus posts a cleavage shot on the Funny Pictures/Interesting Images thread, and your eyes zoom in- on the TRF cast badge. And you know what year it was by the color.

[CelticOne]

"When you take out your other pair of faire boots to wear to work (2 1/2 months after closing gate), and they are covered in Bristol dust, but you don't clean them off before wearing them, because, hey, the dust comes from FAIRE."

SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, I finally got around to unpacking my basket from Stronghold, was putting away the pouches, belts, etc. and couldn't bear to completely wipe all the dust from the sides of my pouch. 

It's Faire-e-dust 

Dayna

My boots still have Stronghold mud on the toes...

My camera still has Scarborough mud on it from 2007...and I don't care.

When all of your coworkers know that you are saving up for new garb.

You find out one of your co-workers works at fest and you're thrilled cause you have someone to talk to about fest.

[washmcrack]

when most of your conversations start with "this one time at faire" or "last year at faire" or "remember that time in the campgrounds outside faire."

[Dance_Dance]

when most of your conversations start with "this one time at faire" or "last year at faire" or "remember that time in the campgrounds outside faire."

*raises hand*  Oh, that's totally me! If I ever did that too much, my 'dane friends would mimic that girl from American Pie, ("And, one time, at band camp...") to tell me I was getting annoying.

So I'd just leave off the "one time, at the faire..." part and let them figure out what I was talking about.


You know you're a true Rennie if walking around in wool, in 100+ degree weather, for hours on end is your idea of a weekend well spent.

[Dayna]

You already have one Texas body hanging long cape, then you buy another in case something should happen to the first one, then you find a different style and so you buy that one 'cause it doesn't have a hood and is a "period correct" colour, then you buy another one because it's only hip length, and your latest personae couldn't afford a full-length one.

So much for saving up now that I don't have a mortgage payment anymore 

Dayna

[lilaney]

..when your coworker's know you can 'talk funny' (dialect) and demand that you use your
accent to talk to customer's, just so they can get a giggle.

(personally, don't truly care; just don't like having to explain that York, is not a candy. It truly is a towne and no, I am not from there; I just talk that way)

[Sitara]

Your husband sees a fresh road killed fox and rushes home for a knife, so he can cut off its tail and cure it. (for our daughter to wear to faire with her other tails) Hmmmm...

I'v had that same impulse to skin a dead animal I find next to the road.  To date though, I've never complied, who knows how long its been there or what could be on it.

My fiance takes skulls from various roadkill and puts them in a cage in the woods for bugs to clean before wrapping the eye sockets with fancy wire and sticking the heads on his armor.  He prefers raccoons and cats as they have cool looking sculls.

[Greenman66669]

You take on an apprenticeship (leathersmithing) just so one day you can make whatever garb you want!!!

[NicoleBridget]

You talk to customers through the speaker at the drive up window at the bank you work for in a British accent just for funsies.

[LadyElizabeth]

When hitting on guys, you sometimes use your fair accent just so they think you're cool and foreign... and so you can practice since fair is coming up in just 2 weeks!!!

You meet a guy and instantly start planning what you will dress him in for fair and also start dropping hints on how guys into fair are so awesome hoping he'll get the hint....  but knowing if he doesn't it won't ever work out, sigh!!

[metalcelt]

A similar story I met my now gf at Faire and she had never been to one before. She decided she liked it so much she ordered a dress from one of the vendors on the spot!

Ahhh true love