You know you're a spotter when....

[threeholerglory]

Pictures, videos, stories, anything works. Ready, go!

(couldn't find anything in the forums like this, so if it's already been done, please remove the thread.)

[Matt Molnar]

...you think spending a day in Far Rockaway or College Point is fun. :eek:

[Derf]

Your preparedness takes longer for an airshow then your prepping for a hurricane coming up the coast!
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Your friends always have more pictures of you than your family
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Your always more aware of your surroundings than other people
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You get goosebumps, but not because of the girls....because your touching a P-40!!!
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When it is hard for things to make you smile like a special paint scheme in beautiful light
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Your lens has to be very sharp....no such thing as too sharp!
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When taking a picture of your friend, your unsure if you should focus on him...or the airplane
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You know your hooked when you eat, sleep and sh!t aviation!
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I got nothing for ya here...it was just a bad a$$ shot
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I would not care if it was not on an airplane!
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Getting excited about blow jobs does not mean what it does to other people... Yes I am talking about jet exhaust...Yes, I have a problem!
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Going out with the guys never results in coming home drunk...Yet I stay out all night
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We all love aviation porn and do not get mad looks from women when looking at it!
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I hope this was not too much but I could go on forever!!!

[wunaladreamin]

Fred, that is ****ing priceless.

[lijk604]

...you try to identify the airplane connected to the contrail at 37,000 feet above you head.

Fred...you just about covered it all.

[eric8669]

the guy across the parking lot is taking pictures of you taking pictures of planes.

[megatop412]

...part of your wife's(now ex-wife's) rant included "...and another thing, every time I'm trying to talk to you and an airplane goes over you totally stop concentrating on what I'm saying to look at it..."

That 100% happened, and she was 100% pissed off

[moose135]

...you're on a first-name basis with the police. :eek:

[threeholerglory]

Moose- you know that's only because you're a "middle-eastern man pointing cameras at airplanes"

[NIKV69]

You are sleeping in your car at an airport and it's not to catch a flight.

[steve1840]

...part of your wife's(now ex-wife's) rant included "...and another thing, every time I'm trying to talk to you and an airplane goes over you totally stop concentrating on what I'm saying to look at it..."

That 100% happened, and she was 100% pissed off

.....like we're ever really concentrating on what they're saying regardless of whether a plane is flying overhead or not. :tongue:

Unless of course its "can I get you another beer" or "here comes a 747"

[steve1840]

Oh, and to add to the list.....

......when you explain to people why you're pointing your camera at the sky more often than you explain to people what you do for a job.

[Zee71]

You know you're a spotter when....you're spotting all day during a weekend in the winter up north and get some wind burn and red face, then go back to work on Monday and some one ask's where did you go for vacation over the weekend to get your tan?

You know you're a spotter when....you're thrilled they have a portable potty at a spotting location. It would be even better if there was a opening for your lens!

[Spunker]

when you can tell what type of plane it is without looking up just by the sound of it's engine's

[PhilDernerJr]

....you interrupt other peoples' travel stories to ask them which airline they flew on.

[megatop412]

...when you start going to auto auctions looking for used cherry picker trucks the cable company is getting rid of

[jerslice]

...when given a choice between 'getting some' and or spotting an L-1011/747SP the rare plane not only wins but does so without giving it a second thought. Truly hardcore when you go after the plane, don't get it, end up losing out on both options...but still think that going for the plane was the right choice.

[gonzalu]

...when half the JFK PAPD rolls up on you guns drawn and then immediately lets you go after recognizing you as a spotter! :tongue:

or

...when you go to KLAS, walk into a Home Depot, buy ladders and then donate them to a local before returning home, you're a spotter!

[seahawks7757]

...when you go to KLAS, walk into a Home Depot, buy ladders and then donate them to a local before returning home, you're a spotter!

Nicer then me, I return for full refund :tongue:

[steve1840]

.......when all your co-workers display pictures of nothing but their family and kids in their cubicle, while your cubicle has no space left on the walls and 90% of those pictures are ones you took of airplanes

[tlabranche]

When you choose to work at the airport so you can do your spotting while getting paid!

[727C47]

you spend 10 hours flying from Leipzig to JFK,and the first thing you notice planeside is the South AFrican A340-600 banking off of 31L,followed by the QATAR 777 etc.etc.

[heeshung]

...when half the JFK PAPD...

Pfft...just half?

[eric8669]

Nicer then me, I return for full refund :tongue:

The last time I was in seattle, myself and Raj donated Ladders to some local spotters.

[NIKV69]

Nicer then me, I return for full refund :tongue:

Ahh the ol Royal trick!