You Might be an RVer if...
...the Camping World Master Catalog arrives and you lock yourself in the bathroom
for an hour with a cordless phone and your VISA card.
...when someone asks how many people can sleep in your RV; you and your spouse
answer in unison, "JUST TWO!"
...you could re-plumb, or re-wire your RV blindfolded, but if the dishwasher in
your house quits, you tell your wife to call somebody.
...the sheets, towels, and small appliances in your RV are all brand new and color
cordinated, but in your house it's the same stuff you bought at garage sales when you first got married.
...at home it's Pop Tarts, hot dogs, grilled cheese, and leftovers, but in the
CG it's full breakfasts, porterhouse, boiled shrimp and fresh sweet corn.
...you drive the speed limit all year, everywhere until you hook up your rig and
then you go 80mph.
...you never help your DW clean the house but your RV is spotless.
...you're out of something in the house, but there's two of them in the RV.
...you're late anywhere you go, but on the morning to leave to go camping, you
and the dog are the first ones in the truck and blowing the horn.
...going camping raises your standard of living.
...you know the location of every Walmart between your home and San Jose California.
...you're more concerned that your TT is level, but couldn't care less if your
house is, and never really thought about it.
...you know everything to know about black water and gray water.
...you know how to move around the trailer without waking the DW.
...you learn how to sleep through an a/c unit turning off and on all night long!
...you spend $276,953 on a new RV, but stay at a Walmart because you think $33
a night is too much for a campground!!
...you walk through the campground and treat it like an RV show.
...you find yourself staring at any camper while going down the road.
...an airplane bathroom seems big.
...Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" is your ring tone.
...you drive your RV to your baby daughter's wedding.
...you can survive a month with two pairs of jeans, two pairs of shoes, seven
shirts, seven pairs of underwear and don't need anything else.
...your child's school science fair project is "Which Toilet Paper Dissolves the
Best/Fastest".
...you look for RV friendly gas stations - when you're in your car.
...the first thing you and the DW/DH do after setting up is walk through the campground
and look for a great spot to reserve for the next trip.
...you spend hours sitting around thinking up ways to modify the camper - or look
around for ideas at campgrounds.
...you feel envious going to work and seeing a rig heading down the road wishing
it was you even though you just got back from a trip two days ago.
...you know the location of every dump station within fifty miles of home.
...you actually enjoy taking the trash for a walk to 'the bin' and call it 'hiking'.
...you can wash all of the dishes from a meal in 1/2 cup of water.
...you can take a full shower (in under two minutes), including washing your hair
with less than one gallon of water.
...vacationing to a 'trailer park' seems perfectly okay to you.
...you drive away from low hanging branches in your car.
...the back of your camper has a "I'm not speedin', I'm qualifying" bumpersticker.
...you figure your fuel mileage out to the tenth of a gallon on the RV, but you
don't know how much heating oil your home furnace burned last winter.
...you insist on backing into your campsite even though it's a pull through.
...you'd ever wondered how comfortable it would be to sleep in the restaurant
booth where you're eating dinner.
...you know to abbreviate Tow Vehicle and to spell out television.
...your new RV cost as much as your new home did twenty-five years ago.
...you pick up groceries not by the nutritional information on the box - calories,
fats, fiber, sugar, minerals - but by the gross weight of the box.
...you save ALL your quarters for laundry day.
...after three nights of boondocking, having "full hookups" is better than a five-star
hotel.
...the night before leaving on a trip reminds you of Christmas Eve as a seven
year old.
...you get all warm and fuzzy over a set of new stabilizer jacks.
...the first picture you take when you get somewhere is of your camper.
...you have a stack of maps from everywhere you've been that you won't get rid
of because you might go back there again.
...you can't sleep before leaving on a trip and end up hitting the road at three
a.m. because, after all, it is "tomorrow" now.
...when you open the medicine cabinet at home and you automatically reach out
to catch what might fall out.
...you trim trees so you can get your twenty-three long, eleven feet high RV in
the driveway.
...a day and a half after returning from a trip, DW is still washing dishes in
the kitchen sink. You say, "We DO have a dishwasher," and she says, "Oh, I forgot."
...happiness is a full tank of gas, and an empty holding tank!
...you don't mind defrosting the RV fridge, but you require a frost free fridge
for the house.
...when you spend hours sitting outside while camping, but have lawn furniture
at home that hasn't seen your backside forever.
