You know you're in the SCA when...

[kengr]

(from the Kingdom mailing list)
You know you're in the SCA when:

1. Your friend's idea of camping involves a backpack and yours involves a U-haul.
   
2. People ask where you're from and you reply with a barony or kingdom.
   
3. People entering your house feel like they have walked into a museum from the weaponry hanging on your walls
   
4. You know you're in the SCA when your boyfriend is the one dragging you to the fabric store.
   
5. You have more than one bladed weapon within reach of your bed
   
6. You start judging the sword fighting in movies "Oh my gosh, they are just hitting each other with swords. PARRY ALREADY!!!"
   
7. You can't find your Seneschal's phone number in the phone book because you can't remember his mundane name ;)
   
8. The smell of fire and the sound of drums makes you want to get up and bellydance
   
9. You watch period movies with your friends and everyone is going "Ohh I want one of those, how do you think they made that."
   
10. You are watching a period movie and saying "That isn't correct for that period." or "I know I could do better than that, why doesn't Hollywood hire me for costuming."
    
11. You can't understand why people freak out at the rapier/gladius/broadsword hanging delicately from your belt.
    
12. Someone comes up to you at an event and shoves a tankard in your face and says, "Here! Drink this!" And you don't mind at all. Even if you find yourself off in the woods somewhere the next morning. Hehehe
    
13. You know what the drinks Varunchka, Mead, Apple Pie, Love Potion and Swamp Water are and how fast they can get you drunk.
    
14. You take a cloven fruit to an office holiday party
    
15. You yell "Huzzah" at mundane events instead of cheering "normally".
    
16. After a party you ask yourself: "Hmm. Now where are my clothes?" and you're stone sober and fully dressed.
    
17. You've brushed your teeth with beer or vodka, because it was easier to find than clean water.
    
18. When you show off the massive freaking bruises from battle and play 'name the weapon'.
    
19. When someone outlines a bruise you can't see you can name the fighter and weapon that caused it "oh that one? Thats from 'Whump'"
    
20. When you can find garb for any event/season/weather within a few moments but a modern raincoat takes a determined quest to uncover.
    
21. When you are constantly answering questions of "Are you in a play?", "Why are dressed funny?", or my personal favorite in those places that are finally getting used to us, "Oh! Is it that time of year all ready?"
    
22. People don't recognize you unless you are in garb.
    
23. You can tell silk velvet from polyester velvet just by the way it moves while watching the Count of Monte Cristo and have a fabricgasm because you want that coat.
    
24. You recognized at least 3 different styles of pavilions that you want to own while watching the latest Harry Potter film.
    
25. .....people think you're in a cult because you forgot your coat, but your cloak is in your trunk
    
26. The guy sitting next to you who looks as if he is a life long member of the Hell's Angels is cross stitching.
    
27. When more people know you by your society name than mundane name.
    
28. You have to explain to the cop writing the report after a traffic accident on the way home from fighter practice why you're dressed so funny and have so many swords in the car.
    
29. When you wake up and you have no idea whose tent or camp you're in!!!
    
30. When you're stopped by highway patrol officer and asked the fateful question, "Any weapons in the car?" You respond, "Well, nothing but the hand and a half broadsword in the trunk..." Much discussion and some show and tell later, you got a new Shire member! :D
    
31. You know you're in the SCA when the day after fight practice your girlfriend goes to the doctor for an appointment and the doctor sees the bruises and asks where she got them and she says "My boyfriend hit me with a stick, but it's ok cause i hit him first." then after an hour of explaining you have a new person showing up to fight practice to check it out....
    
32. You can set up a tent without directions
    
33. When you find you and your friends teaching the girls at Hooters about a cloven fruit.
    
34. Your idea of 'taking things to the next level' in a relationship is to invite them to an event
    
35. 90% your bras have coins on them!
    
36. You either know or have experienced the walk of shame.
    
37. You can't find your driver's license on a Monday Morning because it's still in your pouch on your belt.
    
38. You know better than to drink Strawberry Surprise at Pennsic.
    
39. After war it feels weird to be in a car going faster than 10mph (although I'm pretty sure the shuttle isn't even that fast)
    
40. You still greet everyone with milord or lilady 2 weeks after war of an event, and you get weird looks for nodding or bowing without realizing you are doing it.
    
41. You can't salsa, break dance, or two-step, but you are an expert at the Maltese Brawl, Toss the Dutchess, and other period dances.
    
42. You used to have a wok, but now you have a spangen helm
    

Comments

[kshandra]

A surprising number of these apply to Burners, too.... ;-)

[kengr]

<innocent look>
I can't *imagine* why...
</innocent look>