You Know Your an Addict When (Top 10 List)

[JimDon]

10. Your etrac (and Excalibur) are the first things you pack when you go on our beach vacation.
9. Everyone you meet you mention MD'n just in case they own an old house or farm,
8. You skip lunch to hunt during work
7. You easily get up at 5am without an alarm on your vacation or weekend/day off to hunt...but can't get up at 7am with a screaming alarm on a work day.
6. Your dress shoes are covered in mud. As a matter of fact, all your shoes are covered in mud.
5. You have rain slicks in your car to cover your work/dress clothes just in case the opportunity is there to hunt...
4. When it's raining you say Oh Good...now I can hunt the tot lots because no kids will be there.
3. You walk the dog with a leash in one hand and a detector in the other.
2. Your wife says she is running to the grocery store with the kids and you think "Great...I got 15 minutes to hunt!"
1. You get into your car at lunch and your car clock says 12:13 and you think "Wow that could be a nickel or a ring! (Etrac-ers understand"

I am an addict.....please feel free to add to this list.

 

[I C THE LITE]

Your top 10 and funny, sad and quite true. I never need an alarm clock to go detecting. I will be retiring in 127 more work days and become a full time detector in a 128 days and will never need a wake up call.

 

[SusanMN]

11. You come back home after a six hour hunt, sore, muddy, smelling faintly (or strongly) of sewage and dead fish, with only a single Indian head penny to show for it, and you think to yourself "man, this was a great day"

 

[Jason in Enid]

12. Everywhere you drive you are eyeing old houses, empty lots and old parks and wondering what you could find there.

 

[62dold]

Oh know! it's true, and there's probably no cure.

 

[denny3]

13......When you practice with your weed eater while your detector is in the shop.

 

[lookindown]

14...No matter what you start talking about, it always comes back to detecting.

 

[TerryC]

13......When you practice with your weed eater while your detector is in the shop.

You know you are an addict when you take the spare out of your vehicle so you have room for a weed-eater lawnmower and metaldetector. TTC

 

[x512x]

12. Everywhere you drive you are eyeing old houses, empty lots and old parks and wondering what you could find there.

That's me haha

 

[x512x]

When your on vacation an you take your metal detector with you

 

[mangum]

15. When you take a vacation for the sole purpose of metal detecting (me & JimDon have done this, went to Hilton Head last year!)

 

[WVARelics]

16. You are looking through the TNET threads and people are saying man I cant wait til spring so I can get out huntin and you think to yourself what are they talking about? I dont wait for spring! Rain, snow, frozen ground, blistering heat I hunt when I can. You might be addicted.

 

[labradigger1]

when you're every waking thought is thinking about metal detecting
when every old home you drive by you look at the foundation, square curbs and double chimneys
when you drive in the spring you look for daffodils that may mark a long gone foundation
when everyone, and i mean everyone you meet you ask if they know anywhere you could detect
when you plan a vacation for the sole purpose of metal detecting and lure the spouse into believing it is a "real" vacation. i do this a couple times a year, luckily i have a wonderful wife.
when everything you read is geared towards history for leads

 

[blaylock]

When your hoping your kids will buy you more batteries for fathersday. And hope they will go back home soon so you can use them...lol.

 

[Old Dude]

OMG! I relate to all these but have only owned a detector about a month now. My future looks scary!

Happy Hunting!

 

[neuseman]

When you spend all day long digging pulltabs and modern bullets and when you get home and lay down in the bed you start thinking, man I cant wait to get back to that place!!!!!!!!!!!!!