You Know Your A Drag Racing Addict When.....

[RegSpec]

Pinched this from another site..had to post...

You Know Your a Drag Racing Addict if:

You have two dogs at home named “Snake” and “Mongoose.

You want to have kids just so you can run a Jr. Dragster

You know more about a drivers career than his wife does

Your whipper snipper was blue painted by Keith Black

You put a 60-foot launch pad in your backyard instead of a pool

After your garage door opens you “stage” and wait on the tree before pulling out

After one pass around the yard on your lawn mower you read the plug and fatten "er up".

You can’t remember your spouse’s birthday, but you know the e.t. and speed records in every professional class.

You think the purpose of wings is to prevent flight

You catch yourself saying, "I wish stoplights would flash yellow before they turn green." That way you could get a better reaction time

You know Hookers are headers

You memorize the Summit and Jeg’s catalog so you can build your dream car in your mind when you’re bored

"Going to the lanes" means getting ready to race, not going to roll some stupid heavy ball down a wood floor, to knock down pins.

Your home page is set at NHRA.com or dragster.com.

When introducing your family, You refer to them as your crewmembers.

You see burnout marks in the pavement and try to determine how serious a car it was by the length and width of the stripes. Then you say, I coulda done better.

You refer to a cold day as "fast air."

While your squirting dish washing liquid in the sink , you’re thinking about priming the injector.

You talk in your sleep and your wife wakes you up in the middle of the night and wants to know who Shirley, Connie, and Doug are.

You describe someone who’s upset as being "on the rev limiter"

You’ve even told a co-worker that your nutty boss finally "tossed the belt."

You refer to an employee who called in sick to work as "having a cylinder out."

You send a monthly letter to the RTA asking it to move the traffic lights to street level because looking up is messing up your reaction time.

Your wife and kids report you missing 23 times a year.

Your are more enthusiastic about getting your issue of DRAGSTER in the mail than a cheque.

You don’t know Richard Nixon was from Yorba Linda, Calif., but you do know John Force is.

You’ll spend $500 for a single slick, but you won’t spend more than that for all four new tyres on your daily driver.

You have a shift light in your minivan

You call the freeway offramp the "shutdown area"

You refer to WSID and Willowbank Drag Strips as "the happiest Place on earth"

While you’re shopping for underwear, you find yourself looking for an SFI tag.

You know that all the things they clamed to do to that car in Grease can’t really be done at the same time.

You have a CD mix of car songs, including "409," "little Deuce Coupe," "and "Shutdown."

You honk and give a thumbs-up to any other car on the road sporting an ANDRA sticker.

You drive 350 klms to your sisters just because there is a drag strip 20 klms from her house

You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.

When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

You bought a race car before buying a house.

You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!

The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance): 1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop. 2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28' enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel. 3) 3 phase outlets in the garage for your welder. 4) A grease pit. 5) Deaf neighbors. 6) Some sort of house with a working toilet & shower on the property - or - hookups for the motor home.

You have enough spare parts to build another car.

More than one racer supply store recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call.

You save broken car parts as "momentos".

You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on avgas (but doesn't particularly care for alcohol).

The local police have a picture of your car taped to their dashboard.

Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have time slips.

After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on vacation she answers: "Why...is there a race there?"

You are on a first-name basis with owners of every local speed shop.

You are the type of person who kicks a rod out when you have to sit in a traffic jam for more than five minutes, yet,...you can spend five hours in the staging lanes.

You wash your car like it was your firstborn child, you tend to its needs like it was your own body, you protect it like it's your family, then you drive it like you stole it.

When someone asks your weight, you tell them the weight of your car with and without a driver

You use racing fuel as an after shave.

You treat a traffic light, like a Christmas Tree.

During the off season you sit in the race car making engine sounds and pretend to shift gears.

During the "off" season,you take an old tyre off of one of the many cars in your yard. Then proceed to burn it and inhale the tyre smoke.

You take your wife or girl friend out to a fine restaurant and when she gets up to go the ladies room, you commence to draw on the table cloth the new engine design. She comes back and catches you drawing this engine that she had no idea existed. You then say, it's for a friend.

You go to the Drag Strip on your first date, true love would be if she suggested it. That's when you find a old beer can ring and propose.

Your wife says she expecting and you think that it means, she expects you to win the next round.

You can find your way to any drag strip, but get lost going to your in-laws.

You think about racing every 4.77 seconds.

You know that POWERade is a drink and not, a new kitchen appliance.

You know that "Breakout" refers to a driver running quicker then their dial in time, it's not a prison escape.

You refer to a "nappy" as an absorbent blanket used to contain oil and parts incase of a blown engine. Not something you put on a baby even though, they both contain similar stuff, Oh No!

ET to you means Elapsed Time not Extra Terrestrial.

You know; Weight Transfer, refers to the front end lifting causing weight to be transferred to the rear wheels....... It's not a new wave diet!

You use 10w 40 engine oil for bath oil

Edited 25/02/08 09:50 AM by BionicXR6T

[senna_T]

you drive around on under inflated tyres just incase there is a guy that wants to go off the lights, it doesn't matter that the tyres won't last as long as they should, you just get a better launch this way....

[BFHOON]

you drive around with slicks on the rear for the same reason.

Edited 25/02/08 11:06 AM by BFHOON

[senna_T]

lol, ok you got me there!

when you whinge about the price of fuel going up 3cents, but you'll pay 15 bucks for a coke and chips at the dragstrip!

Edited 25/02/08 11:05 AM by senna_T

[BFHOON]

when a hoist is a needed item in the garage.

[senna_T]

nice