Body and Mind Minerals 

¨You think road cuts are built as tourist attractions

¨ You describe your vacations by the rocks you brought home.

¨ The rockpile in your garage is over your head.

¨ Your PC screen saver features pictures of rocks.

¨ You find rocks when you empty your pockets at night.

¨ You went to a rock festival and you hate music.

¨ You gave rocks, tumblers, or rock tools for Christmas.

¨ When friends say they're going to Tucson, you assume it'll be in February.

¨ You can find Quartzsite on a map in less than 5 seconds.

¨ When someone mentions "Franklin" you think of New Jersey rather than Ben.

 

.-----¨ You can pronounce "molybdenite" correctly on the first try.

-----¨ The polished slab on your bola tie is six inches in diameter

-----¨ The bookshelves in your home hold more rocks than books; and the books that are there are about rocks

-----¨ On a trip to Europe, you're the only member of the group who spends their time looking at cathedral walls through a pocket magnifier

-----¨ You think you KNOW how to pronounce "chalcedony."

-----¨ You are thinking about giving out rocks for Halloween.

-----¨ You planted flowers in your rock garden.

-----¨ You purchase things like drywall compound just to have another nice bucket to carry rocks in

-----¨ The club you belong to uses rocks for center-pieces for the annual Christmas dinner.

-----¨ The first thing you pack for your vacation is a chisel and a hammer.

 

¨ you spend hours and hours in the ugliest room in your house.

¨ You give directions like, "turn right at the green farmhouse..."

¨ You bought the ugliest boots available cause they were water proof.

¨ You know what findings are for.¨ You watch the scenery in movies instead of the actors.

¨ Your company asks you not to bring any more rocks to the office until they have time to reinforce the floor.

¨ The local jewelry stores & libraries give out your name for information on rock clubs.

¨ You examine individual rocks in driveway gravel.

¨ Your wife knows you are down in the basement sorting rocks but can't quite find you nor does she remember that pretty wall down there.

¨ Your local rock shops send you get well cards when you don't stop by in more than a week.

 

-----¨ The baggage handlers at the airport know you by name and refuse to help with your luggage.

-----¨ The local university's geology department asks permission to hold a field trip - in your back yard.

-----¨ The city sends you a letter informing you a landfill permit is required to put any more rocks in the back yard.

-----¨ UPS has a regular pickup and delivery schedule for your house.

-----¨ You can debate for hours on the differences between spectrolite and labradorite.

-----¨ You shouted "Obsidian!" to a theater full of movie-goers while watching the Shawshank Redemption.

-----¨ Your children have names like Rocky, Jewel, and Beryl

-----¨ You get excited when you find a hardware store with 16 pound sledge hammers and 5 foot long pry bars.

-----¨ You debate for months on Internet about whether vibratory or drum tumblers are best.

-----¨ You can't remember the last time your car still fit in the garage.

 

¨ Local science teachers plan field trips to your back yard

¨ You have a two car garage and your 4WD pickup has to sit in the driveway.

¨ They won't give you time off from work to attend the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and you go anyway.

¨ You begin fussing because the the light strips you installed on your bookshelves aren't full spectrum.

¨ You've spent more than ten dollars on a rock.

¨ You still think pet rocks are a pretty neat idea.

¨ You have amethyst in your aquarium.

¨ You associate the word "hard" with a value on the the Mhos scale instead of "work".

¨ You know the location of every rock shop within a 100 mile radius of your home.

¨ You're retired and still thinking of adding another room to your house.

 

-----¨ You're planning on using a pick and shovel while you're on vacation.

-----¨ Your spelling checker has a vocabulary that includes the words "polymorph" and "pseudomorph".

-----¨ You know where Tsumeb is.

-----¨ You think Franklin, New Jersey might be a cool place to go on a vacation.

-----¨ You put a web page about rocks on the internet.

-----¨ Your car hasn't seen the inside of your garage for ten years.

-----¨ You associate the word "saw" with diamonds instead of "wood".

-----¨ You begin wondering what a set of the Mineralogical Record is worth

-----¨ You decide not to get married because you'd rather keep the rock.

-----¨ You make a backpack for your dog.

 

¨ You've spent more than ten dollars for a book about rocks

¨ You have mineralogical database software on your computer.

¨ You send your family on ahead into MacDonalds so you can check the gravel in the flower beds.

¨ You have 137 empty squeeze syrup bottles washed and ready to use as squeeze bottles on the next field trip.