You might be at Pennsic..
Lord Ferris Sanct Georg and Katherine O'Mally
- If you hear more than five consecutive lines from The Princess Bride, and you're nowhere near a television...
- If you overhear or participate in a conversation made up entirely of puns...
- If the ground seems somehow WRONG, and you realize it's flat...
- If you go to the classic swimming hole to make yourself feel thin...
- If you find yourself holding conversations with someone and never using his/her name -- not because you don't know it, but because you can't pronounce it...
- When a guy walks by in what appears to be tights, a knee-length dress, and a silly hat, and you think this is normal...
- When your bad Scottish accent doesn't sound so bad anymore...
- When you can't tell the woad from the tattoos...
- When your list of items to bring next year includes the phrase, "more money"...
- When you begin to ENJOY cold showers...
- When you walk a mile uphill in armor so you can be clubbed like a baby seal, and walk another mile back to your tent, and you call this FUN...
- When you wear three different tartans, at the same time, and you call this high fashion...
- When going to the grocery store involves removing six daggers from your belt, so the locals don't stare...
- When you're in garb and you DON'T hear "are you guys in a play?"...
- When you see someone in elf ears and you think, "at least they're not vampires!"...
- When you begin to consider not only spandex a privilege, but loincloths as well...
- When "Local Community Standards" apply, and you can't think of any...
- When you begin proposing minimum safety standards for bards...
- When reflecting upon your teenaged dreams and hopes, and you realize that Knights in shining armor smell like unwashed socks...
- When a trip to the "flushies" is a special treat...
- When you find yourself eating foods that you would normally avoid, solely because they are fuel...
- When you brush your teeth with beer, because it's easier to find than clean water...
- When you suddenly realize how many clothing options a tablecloth and a pair of curtains give you...
- If you can justify a misspelling by claiming that spelling wasn't period...
- When everyone in your military unit is wearing medallions, and they AREN'T dog tags...
- If your head is pounding, and you can't tell if it's the hangover or the drumming class just up the hill...
- When you yell, "Hey Angus!" and half the men in kilts turn around...
- When you yell, "Hey Duncan!" and the other half do...
- If your last memory of your parents is of them telling you "There's bad people out there who will offer drugs and alcohol to young people," and you hope that they're right, you might be at your first Pennsic.