You know you're addicted to rallying, when:

[Spac]

Yeah, I do know about you and Ed actually.

He's fast, you're not.

:p

[Darren]

....your addicted to rallying.... when you sit down and read 3 pages of Rally jargon, complete garbage, and dumb stories and actually enjoy it.

LMFAO

[Rallyray]

When you get up at 5:30 to go to a RC meet point...


and


When you walk 3km into a freezing cold forest at night to a place where you know people will come undone...and won't leave till the sweep.

[Rallyray]

When your Bobs age and you still love it

[Miss]

- you become accustomed to being know as "XXX's" navigator
- you rank potential life partners on their ability to help at service points
- having someone else's car in you backyard is not an issue
- you'd seriously consider walpapering your living room walls with pages of a roadbook
- your housemate knows not to interfere when your plans for the weekend are "rally stuff"
- your work colleagues know you as "the car chick"
- "she's into cars" is a compliment
- "XXX would be a ****ing fantastic ride" is not considered innuendo
- You never, EVER make plans on a rally weekend, even when you're not competing... just in case...
- No one ****s with your highlighters.

[Bede]

* When your familyroom is full of wheels, rally tyres and car parts.

* When your dream house is the one out of RallyXS magazine.

* When every free piece of wall space is filled with either doorplates and numbers from all your rallies, or rally posters.

[Daniel]

When a 'can you help me out' phone call fom Mark ALWAYS involves a mig, hammer and wierd Toyota stuff

When your wife postpones your honeymoon to accomodate ROC.

When you come home from Narooma and fall asleep on the floor on your first aniversary and your wife ISN'T surprised.

When theres permanent black marks on the road out the front of your house where you test your brake bias.

Your garage is insured for more then your house contents.

When your road car has less then .000005mm of tread but you replace rally tires as soon as the edges are gone.

A boys night out involves more car talk then naked woman.

[Spac]

Those last two points are Gold, Daniel!

... conversations about dirt roads hundreds of kilometres away always involve the phrase "that corner where so and so crashed really badly". And everyone knows where that is.

... you know at least one person you can phone at 1:00am the morning before a rally, and ask them for obscure rally car parts.

... you own at least three pais of axle stands.

... you get the shopping trolley sideways.

[Bede]

Originally posted by Spac
... you get the shopping trolley sideways.

[beanpole]

No, you hone your skills for driving on flats using a laden shopping trolley- note this also helps with different cars, as all trolleys are different.



Kev

[Daniel]

Shopping trolleys are great for practicing driving a bent rally car - because neither handle they way they should!

[fro]

Not all rallying. I am suitably ashamed:

- It's casual day at work, and you can't find a non-motorsport T-shirt to wear.
- Your wife accepts that all holidays will involve a motorsport event.
- Your boss at work asks for the NSW Rally calendar to figure out when you won't be at work.
- Your boss automatically assumes you'll be away a week either side of RoC.
- You chose your daily driver on its parts compatibility with your rally car.

[Rallyray]

When you trudge though Blackberries in shorts just to get a good spot.

Your covered in mud, dirt, pine needles and oil, missing one shoe and are freezing but still grinning ear to ear.

[Spac]

..you know who FF is.

...your grandmother gives you car tools for Christmas.

[Spac]

...you can't think of any new friends that you've made since you started rallying who AREN'T "rally people".