You Know You're An Emgee When....

...when you organize your honeymoon around rollercoasters.

...when you fly more than half-way across the country for an event at a park you were just at two months ago so you can be with more of your kind.

. *** Edited 8/4/2004 4:21:01 PM UTC by boblogone***

I had no idea this thread was going to be so entertaining. Way to go, everyone...thanks for the laughs ;)

mOOSH

boblogone said:
...when you organize your honeymoon around rollercoasters.

hey, if I am paying for the honeymoon, shouldn't I have a say in it too, hehe, we might be taking a 2nd honeymoon to either Vegas or Orlando, more coasters for me, hehehe!!!!

....when you spend $60 for a nut and bolt from SFGAM's Shockwave.

What? They threw in a nut with your Shockwave bolt? No fair! No fair! I want my money back!

...when you leave the multiplex in the middle of "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" because the sight of the cliffs has inspired you to build the mother of all dive machines on RCT. You are in such a hurry to get home that you don't bother to stop at the ticket booth and ask for your $9.50 back.

...your scalp and body are covered with "crack ho" scabs due to nervous picking during a (cyber)coasterless holiday weekend at your mother's home.

...when you surpise your mother with a spontaneous visit to her workplace, she introduces you to the Emgee in the cubicle across from hers. You spend five minutes catching up with Mom, and spend almost an hour talking to him about the Coney Island Cyclone.

Ben

....when you know that "Wally World" was really SFMM.

...when you listen to Weird Al singing about losing his head on that "new rollercoaster ride" while your driving out of the CP parking lot.

....when your screen name for CB has to do with rollercoasters

....when you make a "stupid" prototype and show it on CB and then have everyone say they want to be the first ones to ride it (cool design by the way LMH)

...getting up at 2:00 in the morning dodging deer and having 2 hours sleep driving from Iowa to Illinois to enjoy CB Con 2004 @ SFGam only to see it rain, therefore negating the ERT, but then have the park reinburse you with FastLane passes and drink tickets.

...when you go and drag this topic back up from the dead.

...when your hope that your girlfriend likes woodies has nothing to do with sex.

...when you schedule visits to the folks at times that coincide with events at nearby parks.

Oh Boblogone, this was so funny to read, thanks for "reviving" it.

....when your in a famous christian band and sing about losing your cell phone under the Batman ride.

....when you skip your cousin's boring graduation party to go to Dorney that same weekend for night ERT on Talon and Hydra

when you hear a coaster show form the other room and yell "HEY!! MAGNUM!!" cos you would recognize the sound of that lift hill ANYWHERE.

when you can quote the "Welcome to Gemini" autospiel because you slept in the car whuch was parked next to it for two hours (my BF did this and STILL remembers that spiel).

...when you're at a dance club and the video screeens are playing random images and suddenly you notice a quick 2-3 second shot of coaster footage and can immediately recognize it as SFOG's Mindbender!

you scare me, Moosh... ;)

mattmatt: I majorly insulted this lady's baby when she outbid me for a prototype PTC brakefin at Eastcoaster. That b***h.

...when in a freewriting essay you are assigned to do in school, you write about how TTD's hydraulic motor works.

...you have an Excel spreadsheet of your track record, ordering every ride rank, and including tallies of how many times you've been on each one (minus the rides which you can't remember how many times you've ridden them).

...you keep a track record to begin with.

...you try to ride on every train for those rides with different colors on each train.

...you create top 5 lists in various categories.

...you go to a single park more than 10 times a year.

...you hang onto past season passes and expired ACE membership cards.

...you grab 4 or 5 park maps as souveniers.

...you're pressed over the fact that you're a staff member on a coaster site.

...you view coaster-riding as a great way to meet chicks.

...you show off to other riders by turning around for the entire duration of the ride.

...you enjoy getting stuck on lift hills.

...you send hate mail to local news stations because they ALWAYS, ALWAYS sensationalize "incidents" at parks.

...you laugh at the fact that the media tends to screw up statistics, and even contradict themselves (SFA's Two Face is both 135 feet and 230 feet! Bet you didn't know that one!).

...you view coaster-riding as a great way to meet chicks.

Thankfully that's one thing I've never done! ;)

..you read this list and say "Done That" "Doing That next week" "Ooh, that sounds like fun" "Boy am I jealous it wasnt me".

When you catch a glimpse of a Walgreen drug store commercial that has coasters in it, and you sit there for hours watching shows you don't care about just to see that commercial again! The really bad part is I'm thinking about setting the VCR to record that channel in hopes of catching it again.

One word for you, Chadley: TIVO.

...you view coaster-riding as a great way to meet chicks.

As a 15 year old guy who loves roller coasters I am proud to say that that quote right thar is my way of life at an amusement park.

.... when your friends think your cazy because all you do is talk and look at roller coasters.

.... when all you do is study roller coasters on the net.

But hey, thats what we do up here in the Dakota's ;)

...you're sitting in Physics and you correct the teacher on the height of the tallest roller coaster, and explain about the new record breaker about to open

...you're featured in your local newspaper for riding a lot of roller coasters in one summer. (That actually happened, in 2001. Here in central PA, riding 42 roller coasters in one summer is a big deal. ;))

...hitting the refresh button on RCDB to see how many coasters you've ridden come up in a row is a good way to pass the time.

^Forgive me if these have been said before, I didn't read the entire topic... :) *** Edited 2/24/2005 4:12:45 AM UTC by MarimbaGuy87***