You Know You're a Knitting Dork When....

(Shamelessly stolen from this discussion on Ravelry. These are my favourite ones.)

- When you plan extra projects so there is always one to carry on a road trip
- You're the only person who isn't bored during fire drills, because you brought a sock with you
- You carry a second project in your bag in case you finish the first one - even when you're just going to the post office
- You ask strangers if you can feel their sweater, or get uncomfortably close to them so you can see the stitch pattern
- You don't do ANY work on the computer until you've checked the Yarn Harlot's blog
- You literally dream about knitting
- You can somehow manage to include the words "yarn", "needles" or "knitting" into EVERY conversation
- Your family and friends no longer freak out when you bring your knitting out in public
- You start a knitting group at your school
- When you'd rather take public transport than drive, because that way you have some time to knit
- When you don't feel that a project is completed until you've put it on Ravelry and blogged about it
- When you knit in a bar and the ice in your drink melts because you keep telling yourself you'll take a sip after the next row
- When packing for a vacation you think about your knitting before you think about your clothes
- When in the middle of sex you wonder how long much longer it's going to take because you have a really good project on the needles
- When you visit a new city the first thing you do is look for a yarn store
- When you fly someplace for a visit and you acquire so much new yarn that you have to leave some clothes behind to get all the yarn home. One suitcase for yarn, one for clothes.
- When you seen patterns inspired by your favorite sci-fi/fantasy books and think, “Holy crap! I can be a dork in two ways at once! I’m saving time!
- When you know longer think of a UFO as an unidentified flying object
- When you search for patterns so simple you can use them in the dark cinema
- When your boyfriend has learned not to remove your knitting from your hands because the first time he did it you stabbed him in the stomach with a needle
- When your boyfriend (and friends) has started to say "when you finish that row..." before he asks you to do anything
- You try and explain 'tink' and 'frog' to non-knitters and are baffled when they don't find it as funny as you do
- You know that your partner is 'the one' when he'll happily sit and hold some yarn while you handwind it
- When you check whether an airline allows knitting needles BEFORE you check baggage restrictions or price

There are more to come. It's a 68 page thread at the moment and I don't have time to read them all in one shot. Feel free to comment and add your own additions though.