DiveMom1
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You "KNOW" you are a dive addict when you have fun spending 2 hours in a 4' deep pond in your front yard. 
You might be a dive addict
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InTheDrink
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If your quarterly marketing segmentation exercise curiously leaves you with Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Micronesia - and Greenland - you may want to re-evaluate your motivations
...when you're 3rd monitor at work constantly runs dive videos
...when there is always at least 3 tanks and a set of gear in the back of the truck just in case
...when the only mascara you buy has to be waterproof to at least 100'
...when your wetsuits take up more than half the space in your closet
...when your girlfriends want to go shopping on the weekend you ask what dive shop
...when you can only have one beer at a party and have to leave early because you have an early morning dive
...when there is always at least 3 tanks and a set of gear in the back of the truck just in case
...when the only mascara you buy has to be waterproof to at least 100'
...when your wetsuits take up more than half the space in your closet
...when your girlfriends want to go shopping on the weekend you ask what dive shop
...when you can only have one beer at a party and have to leave early because you have an early morning dive
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...you have more bungee mounts than watches
...you have a revolving account at your lds
...you fill your optic prescription for your mask before your glasses
...the bottle of wetsuit cleaner in your shower is larger than your shampoo bottle
...you update your wardrobe by buying more scuba t-shirts
...you no longer polish your nails because it's just going to come off anyway
...you would never even consider dating someone who didn't also have a scuba addiction
...you have a facebook account just to share dive pictures
...you only find men in neoprene or trilaminate sexy
...you have a revolving account at your lds
...you fill your optic prescription for your mask before your glasses
...the bottle of wetsuit cleaner in your shower is larger than your shampoo bottle
...you update your wardrobe by buying more scuba t-shirts
...you no longer polish your nails because it's just going to come off anyway
...you would never even consider dating someone who didn't also have a scuba addiction
...you have a facebook account just to share dive pictures
...you only find men in neoprene or trilaminate sexy
Oh, there's nothing quite like a tall, lean man in black trilaminate . . .
...if you mow your lawn and find a set of tanks.
Aqua-Andy
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I'm guilty of this one
. But when you do remove all your gear from the tub they still complain that it is full of sea weed.
Texasdivechick
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Great thread as I'm soooooo guilty of 95% of what has already been posted. Adding some of personal addiction issues.
- Dive wet in 44 degree water temp as soon as the local quarry opens for the local dive season. - GUILTY
- Won't consider dating a man unless he is certified, actively diving and diving ALL the environments I love. - GUILTY
- See my nose breather friends when I can't dive - GUILTY
- Had to make new diving friends as no family or friends dive. - GUILTY
- All vacations now involve diving. - GUILTY
- All money goes toward dive gear, goodbye shoe and handbag addiction. - GUILTY.
- Moving to FL in 1 - 2 years to be closer to wrecks, reefs and caves. - GUILTY
- Buying a car next dive season cause no one owns a car in NYC...tired of car rentals every time I dive local. - GUILTY
- Speeding tickets cuts into air-fills and gear so no longer speed as badly.- GUITLY
- Subscribe to four dive magazines - GUILTY
- Member of five diving online forums- GUILTY
- When watching diving videos, spend more time looking at diver's technique, trim and buoyancy than at the marine life. - GUILTY
- Spending so much SI time on SB that your post count is a constant joke among your dive buddies. - GUILTY
- Poor than dirt. - GUILTY
All this plus:
Once I gave $40 bucks to a woman to lend me her fins after I had driven all the way to a quarry out in the middle of nowhere and realized my fins were in someone else's car! (Funny thing is that she really, really didn't want to loan them to me but I begged.) If there had been a dive shop nearby I could have bought a new set of fins for the price of a 1 hour, 25' dive. Yep, I'm addicted.
