You are a popup addict when:
Your popup is cleaner than your house.
You wash the outside of it more than your car or your laundry.
Your popup is better organized than any room of your house.
Ok......go ahead and keep this going.......
:D :D :D
Your PU gets the floor waxed every month, but your house just gets wet moped. :)
...you're responding to this thread...
you actually park your vehicle on the driveway so the pu can go in the garage.
Okay David, I'm guilty of that one...
How about you think of your popup more than your wife when you are at work, or home, or in bed, or while....
You go to the store to get a few things and just happen to spot some things that you gotta have for the popup. (Right wiininkwe?)
yep, you know for sure you are a popup addict :screwy: when:
you get SO EXCITED you can't leave the keyboard when someone you have never met (--living in another country and originally from the other side of the world) is bidding on a popup.... and then when they win the bid, you scream "YEEEEHAWWW Birol, AT LAST!"
:-() :cool: :C :# :U :! :M :W :-()
You know you are addicted when.....
You live in FL, it's 90 degrees outside, you are floating around in your brand new pool, keeping nice and cool....... and you jump out of the pool to run into the house and check the computer to see what new posts you have missed at PUT since the last time you looked, 30 minutes before!
You know you are addicted...
When you talk to a lawyer about filing for bankruptcy, and the only thing you're interested in keeping from the auditors is the Camper!!! (sad but true...)
The Pop Up gets waxed more than the car or van.
The only time you sleep more than 5 hours a night is when your camping.
gsm x2
...your best kitchenware is in the pop-up, and the cheaper stuff is in the house.
Austin
...when youhave a four + car garage and your only vehicle in it is your pop-up!
...when you have another excuse to spend money at Home Depot!
You're a popup addict when: everything in the popup is color co-ordinated much more than in the house.
You just have to have a Bal Leveler.
You have 3 sizes of Dutch Ovens.
You own several Pie Irons.
You're on the mailing list for every kind of camping & RV equipment catalog.
How about when you drive 1700 miles to camp (for a weekend) with a bunch of people you have met on the internet? I will even get to meet Birol!
:!
....... when you look past the tow vehicle to see what kind of pop-up they're pulling!
...you've got your kids trained look past the tow vehicle to see what kind of pop-up they're pulling!
You let a popup pass you on the freeway just to see if they have a PUT sticker.
You can recognize 32 different TV popup vehicles as they drive into the campground.
gsm x2
*At a rally, you only know people by their PUT handle rather than their real names...
*You can have a lengthy discussion around the campfire about various brake controllers...
*The Fleetwood / Coleman issue has made you lose some sleep...
*Another PUT'er gives you advice about a cassette potty - AND -
you discuss above advice with your significant other in the front bunk before you fall asleep.
*You buy a bigger PU.... so you gotta buy a bigger TV
*You know the towing capacity of more than 5 tow vehicles from memory.
*You know the optional axle ratios available for tow packages...
*While giving TV advice to another PUT'er about his Ford Ranger TV, he asks you "so what Ford dealer do you work at??" assuming that you actually DO work at a Ford dealer because you know so much useless stuff about cars...
*You know what "ABS roof" means...
*You know what a "Duro" is...
*You are reading this...
(PS - all of these are true and have happened to me!)
Your 3 y/o DS keeps referring to the toilets in your house as porta pottis...
When an actual hurricane with 100 mph winds(Claudette- 2003) is threatening to blow the roof off of your house and you can't stop worrying about your PU parked at the outdoor storage facility up the street. (Which tuned out to survive just fine- tough critters, PU's!)
When your car is in need of repairs but you take the PU into the shop FIRST! for a roof leak repair, wheel hubs greased,and the lift system checked. Then on your way home from the RV shop you stop in and buy your PU baby new tires!
Ain't it the truth!
Gosh it is scary how many of these comments resemble me!
:p
When you hear ABS, and you don't think antilock brake system.
When TV doesn't mean a television. :eyecrazy:
When you discuss the happenings at the PUT board at the dinner table along with the other important things happening that have happened to the family during the day!!!!!!
(and yes....being suprised when our little one asked about who Birol was and why were we so happy about his good fortune!!!!!!
I asked Holly to complete this sentence: "You are a popup addict when...."
She answered (without me reading ANY of these posts to her), "When cows are flying in a tornado, and you ask, When can we go camping?"
Another from Holly, "When you rob your child's piggy bank to have enough $$ for a campsite!" (Of course, we don't have children, so this hasn't happened.)
...when you have a log in your tow vehicle's glovebox, with EVERY mile on the camper logged, including the 17mi drive to the dealer.
Larry
Quote from: copcarguy*At a rally, you only know people by their PUT handle rather than their real names...
*While giving TV advice to another PUT'er about his Ford Ranger TV, he asks you "so what Ford dealer do you work at??" assuming that you actually DO work at a Ford dealer because you know so much useless stuff about cars...
Hey...I resemble that remark! :J
The "Ford Police Vehicles" t-shirt did help reinforce the illusion ;)
jazman