You know you're a scuba diver when...

[Ed Palma]

- When you look at bathroom fixtures and think of all that nice brass hardware underneath the chrome...
- When you go to a plumbing supply place and think "hey, this ought to make a good cannister light...
- or when you find yourself smiling stupidly when you find the 0-ring section in the hardware store.

 

[Debay777]

if you have seriously considered modifying a propane tank for an air source.....

if you have ever justified buying scuba gear under the presumption that you can pay for it by fishing and/ or recovery efforts......

if you balk at 50 bucks for a 2.5 hour football game but jump to spend 60 bucks for 2 25 min dives.

if you have ever sold a family heirloom to buy a piece of gear

if your wife has had to stop you from trying to sell your kids on ebay

if youve bought your wife something for her birthday/christmas because you know she wont use it, but you know you will (for diving!!)

if youve ever gone to sporting goods in wal mart JUST to smell the wetsuits....

if youve ever cashed in your 401k to buy dive gear

if youve ever peed and realized too late that your not wearing a wetsuit and that your not in the water and are not sure how to ask your boss if you can have the afternoon off.

if your boss has had the computer tech guys check your computer for porn or illegal material because everytime he comes in your office you jump to log off of SB/NCDIVERS.com

if you bring up diving in every conversation in an effort to locate other divers or to try to get others to get into diving

 

[Logiconor]

When someone mentions diving or it appears on the television and all the heads turn to you for a moment.

 

[mirrocraft]

when you just sat down and read 27 pages of this and are disapointed because its over {giulty}

when you drive past a gulf course and think i wonder if theres an entrence to a cave or cavern (florida cave divers would get that one )

when you go in to a hardware store and thing that everything you see would make a geat mod to your dive gear

when you blow out you back the first thing you think of is who can i get to carry my double to the water (guilty )

when someone comes to your house and has nowhere to **** because your dive gear isnt allowed on the floor

when you get your kid bunk beds so you have and extra room for your dive gear

when your wife doesnt ever tell you no about buying dive gear because of the fear that youll make her leave

 

[offroaddiver]

I am sitting in college class and applying how this knowledge can help me in the future with scuba diving.

I've thought less of people who said that they are scuba divers, when in fact they tried it out in a resort pool and that was 5 years ago.

 

[Diver Dennis]

When packing for a dive trip all the dive gear goes in first and if you have room left over you decide to take a few clothes...

 

[Mermaid1257]

Your daughter's college education suffers because you HAVE to spend the money on dive gear and vactations instead of books and tuition.

 

[TSandM]

When packing for a dive trip all the dive gear goes in first and if you have room left over you decide to take a few clothes...

Oh, Dennis, that's so on point right now. We're planning for the Indonesia trip we're about to take, and at this point, it looks like ten days in two pairs of pants and two T-shirts . . .

 

[Blacthorn]

Your daughter goes off to college for the first time, and you convince her to get the apartment which is closest to the dive shop so you can "drop by and see her" more often. I am pretty I remember where her apartment is, but man its a nice shop...

 

[The Mighty Thor]

When you buy more toothpaste than the average person, and not because you love brushing your teeth.

You watch Shark Week, and pay more attention to the divers and their gear, than the sharks.

When someone mentions BC, Before Christ is the furthest thought in your head.