You know you're addicted to rallying, when:

[Miss]

when a "dirty weekend" means getting sacred rally dirt all over your doc martens.

[Spac]

*you think of the value of expensive household items in terms of the number of rally tyres it represents.
*“New tyres or eating properly” is no longer a decision worth spending time thinking about – dry bread and/or two minute noodles will keep you alive for ages.
*buying tyres that cost $200 each, and only last 120kms doesn’t seem at all unusual.
*if someone gave you a million dollars, spending it all on rallying would definitely be an option.
*your road car is closely related to your rally car.
*your road car has driving lights on it.
*you have a spare car for your rally car.
*you have considered buying a spare car for your road car
*you know the exact size of the most obscure bolt on your rally car.
*you think nothing of being awake at 2am the morning of a rally because you know nobody else is going to put this rotten car back together.
*you know what bog is, and why they sell 15 kilo drums of it.
*you know what “Brett Walther Speed” is all about.
*you know that “Oscar” has nothing to do with grouches, or dead artistes.
*You know how to spell Juha's, Tommi's and Heimo's Surnames.
*you’re planning on calling your first born “Juha”. Even if it’s a girl.
*any driving story re-enactment involves lots of opposite lock style arm movements – even at the insurance company office.
*the word “works” doesn’t mean "it functions".
*the idea of rolling a car isn’t horrifying.
*you actually know how long it takes to change a tyre on the side of the road.
*you know what your next rally car is going to be – even if you have just finished building this one.
*you see another car stopped in a stage, and your first thought is “Woo Hoo! Another one off the list”.
*you have a story that starts “The biggest accident I ever saw was this RX-2…”.
*you’ve owned an RX-2 or a 1600 yourself.
*you actually have a view on the Mazda vs Datsun, or Sti vs Evo debates.
*you have deeply held views on the strengths and weaknesses of the current WRC cars, even though you’ve never even touched one, much less driven any of them.
*you know detailed mechanical specifications of several cars you’ve never even seen under the bonnet of.
*you know the stage times and finish placings of several people you’ve never even spoken to.
*You can remember your stage times and placings from three years ago.
*you can remember seedings from five years ago.
*“DCOE”, “L18”, “12A”, “V5”, “VR4”, “SP85”, “4G63”, “E6K” and “S2” all mean something to you.
*you use “DNF”, “DNS” and “Sti” like they’re real words.
*your grandmother doesn’t have to ask what “DNF” means anymore.
*you have a heart-break DNF story that involves you.
*you also have an “I’m such an idiot” DNF story involving you.
*you know what a “DNF jumper” is, and why you’d have one.
*You know the bright side of DNFing early is early beers.
*you look at car accommodation as THE most important factor when looking at real estate.
*co-operative neighbours are the second most important factor when looking at real-estate.
*your neighbours all know you as being “the rally car guy/girl”.
*you meet new people and they know your house already – “the rally car house”.
*you look back at your first rally car with a mix of horror and joy – mostly horror.
*you want your first rally car back anyway.
*you have gone through a stage in your life when making things lighter is THE secret to going faster – “if I can get enough weight out, I can win outright”… in a stock 1300cc car.
*you’ve gotten over that stage, and just decided to drive better instead.
*you’ve seen someone vomit in a full face helmet.
*you know at least four alternative sources of the acronym “CAMS”. And they’re all derogatory.
*you know at least two people at CAMS on a first name basis – eg: “We’re not going to send you another temporary licence Nathan”, “But Melissa…”.
*you have been to virtually every rally in a 400km radius of your house for the last five years – except for that time when your great aunty died (selfish bitch).
*you don’t really know what you’d do with yourself if you weren’t rallying.
*you have a car worth many thousands of dollars, and you only use it eight times a year, at the most. This doesn’t seem unusual.
*you quit rallying several years ago, but you still go to every rally you can get to.

[Rallyray]

]Originally posted by Spac
*you have been to virtually every rally in a 400km radius of your house for the last five years – except for that time when your great aunty died (selfish bitch).

LMFAO

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Spac
*you know what “Brett Walther Speed” is all about.

I think we may just have a winner

[Matt]

Spac:

...your children see you and ask "Mummy, who is the strange man?"

..."going for a slip-and-slide in the forest" isn't taken as slang for sex.

...you have more tyres than the local Beaurepairs, but none of them are any good.

...your co-workers can tell how close a rally is by the size of the bags under your eyes.

...you work your holidays/wedding/honeymoon/divorce around local, national, and international events.

...you spend 8 hours a day at work, and 7 of those is spent on the BMSC forum!

[Matt]

Originally posted by Spac
*you know what a “DNF jumper” is, and why you’d have one.

Uhhhh...

[Tweety]

Matt, it's that jumper you keep in the car during winter rallies, just in case...

[Matt]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Yeah, I get it now!

I have a "DNF Jacket". It's that jacket I keep in the car during all rallies, just in case...

Mental note to self:

Another mental note to self:

[Bede]

When asked what people should get you for your birthday or Christmas and your response is always... "Something for the rallycar."

[Mad Mal]

Its when you cant sleep at night because your too busy thinking about what has to be done on the rally car and the parts you need to order (im building a new car and i havnt had much sleep lately)

[Bede]

When lying under your true love has nothing to do with the opposite sex...

[Spac]

Bede, you may want to remove the word "opposite" from your post... People are asking questons about you...
Maybe I should send you the PM I got from Dave F the other day entitled "Your Annal"... I think he meant "You're annal", but I'm too scared to read it to find out...

Edit: Changing the spelling of the A word because Bede's Net Nanny has been offended by something or another, and I don't want it to be my fault.

Dave should probably do the same thing ('cept he has probably already mis-spelt it... wow, he got that word spelt correctly!).

[Mad Mal]

Originally posted by Bede
When lying under your true love has nothing to do with the opposite sex...

It is true, i was told you didnt like the opposite sex anyway, hello big boy.

[Dave Ferris]

you're annal about spelling mistakes ......see


Done

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[Bede]

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