You know you're addicted to rallying, when:

[Daniel]

You know at least a half dozen people you can borrow a car trailer off when your road car breaks down.

[Rallyray]

Originally posted by Spac
..you know who FF is.

You hear of Spac's ramblings about the unfairness and unjust treatment of particular people at particular rallies


When you hear a Rotary fly through a forest...

[Spac]

Originally posted by Rallyray
You hear of Spac's ramblings about the unfairness and unjust treatment of particular people at particular rallies

Nah, even non-rally people get to hear about that...



...when you spend half your time insisting that you do everything yourself, and the other half paying professionals to do it, because "its not worth risking it buggering up to save $500".

[smee]

Your wife spends more time involved in rallying and she doesn't even drive.

Your next daily driver car must have a minimum towing capacity of 2000kg's and enough space to fit the jerries, tyres and spare parts.

No one asks what you want for birthday or christmas, you just get a Revolution voucher in an envelope.

[rowdytoot]

*when you go away for a relaxing couple of days up the coast with your S/O and spend most of the first evening sat staring into the distance, trying to find ways to go rallying sooner and you don't hear her when she asks you whats wrong coz you are soo into your day dream.

*when you dream about your rally car and rallying every single night to the exclusion of all else...

*when you make everyones life miserable cause you don't have the money to get the car running (damn house purchases!!, lucky it's a nice house!! :p)

* you have shed tears ( yes tears) over not having the car local and being able to run it..

Rowds

[Bede]

When you see a dirt road anywhere and all you can think about is how much you want to be driving your rally car so you can see if the road is a good rally road.

[DaveTrees]

...when you chose your house because it was on the MAPPED road, not the MAIN road

(it's a navigator thing ... I wouldn't expect all you drivers to understand ..... )

[RB]

When your geographical knowledge of Australia is based on where rallies are/have been.

[TK]

..Some of your earliest childhood memories include:
- sitting in the back seat as Dad did roadbook checks in Jenolan, Sunny Corner, Oberon State Forests etc
- the first time I stayed up 'all night' was when assisting at a Passage Control
- the first time I flew in a plane was in a Cessna out of Bathurst searching for a lost car in one of the above forests
- my first (and only!) event was sitting in the back seat, with the job of looking out for passage markers (obviously not an A-to-A timed event back in the mid-70s)
- spending more nights than I can remember at the Hampton Halfway House Hotel/Motel (even some nights in the dormitory!!)
- watching the lights of the cars going back-and-forth around the tracks at the back of the Hampton Halfway House, and wondering what it was like down there (..I never have actually been down there still...)
- the first poster on my bedroom wall was a promotional poster for the Narooma Novice rally (of 1973/4?) which Dad was CofC

[Rallyray]

when you can listen to rally stories all day... except for Bedes. He nearly hits you with those erratic arm movements...
"Then it was like this but I just stomped my foot to the ground and was like whoa...." Making sideways movements with his arms!

[beanpole]

When you see a dirt road anywhere, in the Falcon, with the kids or wife on board, and go Hmmmmmmmmmm.........

And the kids go 'Oooohhhhhh Daaaaaad!'

Wife may: 1. say- 'don't even think about it' in only the way wives can or 2. alow you to count the bruises on the left side of your body.


......OR have a ten year old son who uses the the tomato sauce bottle at the dinner table as his sequential shift lever.



Kev

[Rallyray]

when you spend $2 a go on Sega Rally down the club because you can't stand seeing another name in the Top Ten list.

[Miss]

your "expensive habit" has nothing to do with illicit drugs

"speed freak" is in relation to distance and time

banjo music has a strangely calming effect on you

you have no problem paying extra for PULP for a shytter old datto

[Matt Sosi]

Here are a few:

When you constantly watch rally videos thinking I can do better than that.

When you play rally computer games and you get dressed up thinking you are driving your own car.

Matt

[Daniel]

You can tell the difference between an Escort and a Dato from 2km away.

The term 'overcooked' has nothing to do with food

You know what someone means when they say 'I had an off'

It's perfectly acceptable to drive a car with bits hanging off it, just to get to the end

It's normal when you hear a loud noise in the back, to drive faster to get to within pushing distance of service before it becomes terminal

The term 'oversteer' brings a smile to your face while the term 'understeer' makes you cringe.

You spend hours in the garage looking at you car, wishing you hade enough money to make it go faster

Your wife has long ago given up, and serves dinner in the garage for the week before an event.


Names like 'The Bay', 'Narooma', 'The mineshaft' and 'Green hills' mean so much more then just place names