You know you are addicted when........ :)

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>You dream about a snipe on an E221 Bishops on ebay......<br /><br />You think of what you can sell to finance your next card purchase.....<br /><br /><br />anyone else....????<br /><br /><br /><br />You know you are addicted when ......

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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>you like the "nicer" cards...so you only have 5 left in your collection and you have to sell one of them each time you purchase another high dollar card...<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Corey R. Shanus</b><p>you're reading this Board instead of focusing on your job

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Posted By: <b>Eric B</b><p>..you don't have a job, you cashed out your 401k to pay the bills, but you still keep bidding on items. But your wife doesn't know since you are home getting the mail.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Jerry</b><p>When your whole day revolves around waiting on the mailman. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Typing revolves made me think of the Beatles Revolver album, Great Album

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>You have 29 keyword searches that you check every day on ebay.<br /><br />You call the mortgage company that holds your HELOC to see if you can get a credit increase so you can buy more cards.<br /><br />You lull yourself to sleep at night not counting sheep but reliving in great detail the "Find" of a lifetime you imagined you made this weekend at that obscure antique shop.<br /><br />And this one is for real: You drive six hours just to go to a card show.<br /><br />Edit: And that's only to get there.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Prizner</b><p>you're reading your company reports and you notice many of the copied pages are slightly off-centered.

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>You're selling items you said you'd never get rid of to purchase a "once in a lifetime" item.<br /><br />Heh! That's what I'm doing right now. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Neal</b><p>TOTALLY ADDICETD!!!<br /><br />All of the above so true, constantly on this site throughout the day instead of working. Looking on Ebay,waiting for mailman,who just came with a few cards and a few MOs,etc,etc,etc.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>pstratt</b><p>...you're out to dinner with a woman and she's saying something, but all you hear is "blah, blah, blah" because you're wishing you would have set your snipe higher.

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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>You'd rather see Cap Anson in a corset and thong then your wife...<img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />ok..yes, that was taking it too far.

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Posted By: <b>Al Simeone</b><p>You auction off a large piece of your collection<br />and then buy one of the items back!!!!<br />TRUE STORY!!

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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>When you spend your days and nights arguing about whether the T206 Wagner was cut from the sheet or whether it was trimmed later on. Then you further speculate as to whether PSA knew the Wagner was trimmed when it was graded an 8.<br /><br />Peter C.

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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>...you wonder if it is ethical to cut off the edges of your bread when making a sandwich.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Prizner</b><p>when you eagerly await what Peter Chao will type next.

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I knew there would be some great comments and yours is certainly one of them......I always share the joke about the graders drinking with us after each day at the National. We hold up each beer bottle and inspect it as you do a card....You really have to be there but it's pretty funny....

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>That is the best one so far. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1189451943.JPG"> <br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Jay</b><p>You're starting to think that Bo Derek was really a 6 before restoration. Well, maybe that was not that far fetched.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I'm not addicted, but at least I am getting a chuckle out of this thread. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>Barry...at least I went with Cap Anson instead of you in a pair of thongs <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I wish I had a clever retort, but I don't! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>The other sign of addiction is when you have to remind yourself that your not addicted.<br /><br />Come on guys give me a break, my posts aren't that earth-shaking. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Peter C.

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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>Peter C...<br />Each weekend in the fall, I go to downtown atlanta when georgia tech has home football games...usually, it will involved 6-8 hours of tailgating, then walking 2-3 miles to the stadium...now, while i'm down there its pretty much a given I'll have 5-10 down on their luck homeless gentlemen come up to me and say some pretty strange stuff....your statements Peter ARE more earth-shattering...<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>why do you park 2-3 miles away from the stadium?<br /><br />might as well leave the car at home...at some point during that, I would probably go back home and watch it on tv...

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I can stop whenever I want to<br /><br />-and that's EXACTLY what I told that group of friends and family that came over on Saturday night for an intervention!<br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Jason- I used to be an addict like you guys but I kicked the habit years ago.<br /><br />Today I'm clean and sober. But since I am selling product to all you other addicts aren't I kind of the pusherman?

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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>Jason...not too steer this too far off topic, but Georgia Tech is about the worst campus in the country to try to do anything on....parking on campus is limited...and its just easier to tailgate at the spot we have off campus...plus we just pay $20 to park there instead of $40..but yes, there are times when I definately wish I stayed home....<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>John S</b><p>...you start a side business (three summers ago) to finance your habit.

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Posted By: <b>DD</b><p>Every vacation includes the obligatory search for card/antique stores, including Malaysia and Aruba, just in case an ex-pat opened a store there.

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I've never been there, but that sounded like an awfully long hike!<br /><br />how are you ever expected to make it back to your car with that long of a walk after that many beers?! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br />If you head off in the wrong direction from the start, you could wind up 5 or 6 miles from your car before you get it straightened out!!!<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Joseph</b><p>...the cards are part of the pre-nup.

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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>Your watching the movie 10 with Bo Derek, but you'd rather have an SGC10 of a card you need for your set.

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Posted By: <b>Shane Leonard</b><p>You interrupt a very important phone conversation with a client and ask your assistant if the person that just came through the door is the mailman.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Bob Pomilla</b><p>As you scroll through these posts, you keep nodding your head in sympathy.

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Posted By: <b>Bill</b><p>You're one week away from a 15 month deployment and you're trying to figure out what big card you're going to buy with the extra money from the deployment when you get back.<br><br>Change your socks, drink water, and drive on.

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Posted By: <b>Chris Mc</b><p> When your New Years resolution is to complete a set before starting another and January 2 your resolution is broken.

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Posted By: <b>Dave Haas</b><p>When you're out in the garage wearing eye protection while you crack slabs to resubmit to another grading company. If only it was a 7!!!

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Posted By: <b>Joe D.</b><p>you shut your computer down for the evening and head to bed....<br />on the way to the bedroom you check the site using your cell phone<br />"just in case".<br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Matt E.</b><p>you make the effort to attend a card show with less than 10 tables and one guy has 4 of them.

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I'd say you can afford to be addicted if you have a big enough house that you have enough time to check your cellphone while walking from your PC to your bedroom...<br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>MikeB</b><p>You spend money on any thing else(ie: groceries, vacation, gas for the car,etc) and<br />then think how many cards you could have bought instead.

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Posted By: <b>Tony Andrea</b><p>your wife thinks you love cards more than her, so you agree to go out<br />to a nice dinner with her to bond only to find yourself asking to use her <br />Blackberry phone minutes into the date to see if you won the snipes you set <br />before you left. "DOHHHH!!! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><p>Tony<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Randy Trierweiler</b><p>You silently get mad at your wife for wasting money on things like food and clothing.

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Posted By: <b>E, Daniel</b><p>you think you can accurately grade most things in life, from the Saturday roast - to sex with your wife - to your 4 year old's pre-school art project.<br /><br /><br />Daniel<br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>...when you're 56 years old, sitting on a hard chair at your laptop because<br />your desktop quit, eagerly checking N54 FIRST and probably ONLY.<br /><br />great fun Leon et al.<br /><br />all the best,<br />barry

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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>he has so much money tied up in cards he is having to sit at a hard chair in front of his laptop because he didn't have any money left over for a new desktop <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>you know Barry Arnold is addicted because when using a laptop, he doesn't even take time to MOVE to a comfy spot because he's got to get online FAST!!!<br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Kenneth A. Cohen</b><p>.... I took a trip to Italy with my kids and told them to keep an eye out for a Julius Caesar rookie card.

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Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>go to Cleveland for the National than to a resort with a woman.

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Posted By: <b>Joe D.</b><p>When you completely understand this:<br /><br />'A dog may be Man's best friend, <br />but -<br />PayPal is Married Man's best friend.'<br /><br /><br /><br />(what a great thread.... <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> All these posts have me laughing. Kenneth - did they find the Julius Caesar rookie card?)

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>Because of his enormous ego, he ordered it to be super-printed, so there is no shortage of supply!<br /><br />every conquered town got a cartload delivered with its new town official

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Posted By: <b>Anthony</b><p>a client hands you his business card and you mentally grade the corners and consider the centering.

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Posted By: <b>Marc</b><p>Whenever you hear about a major catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans and wonder just how many of those devastated homes contained one of the rarest and most sought after unknown cards that were lost forever and never to be found again.

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>and you see a well-built woman, and in your head, you are wondering if she is "Altered"...

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Posted By: <b>Marc</b><p>And one more....<br /><br />You know you are addicted whenever you have actually contemplated the idea of going to a major landfill in an effort to dig up garbage - hoping to find all those lost cards thrown away the last 100 years.<br /><br />Skydash, you know what I'm talking about:)

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Posted By: <b>Kirk M</b><p>You are on the computer so much checking Ebay and card forums that your wife thinks that you must be addicated to porn, there is no way that you could be in front of a computer for that long looking and talking about little pieces of cardboard.

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Posted By: <b>Joseph</b><p>...you're disappointed that the woman modeling Lot #1 from American Memorabilia's <br />September 2007 auction (MB $25,000) doesn't show more of the Unitas autograph:<br /><br /><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z36/1969mets_2007/unitas.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>S Gross</b><p>............ you even check your mail box on Sunday's and holidays

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>Dave F. and Jason, you know me so well!!!<br />thanks for the belly laugh.<br /><br />all the best,<br />barry<br />still at the laptop but in a better chair <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>...you start believing that the family dog sorts baseball cards at night while you are asleep. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Peter C.

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>You have enough correspondence in your work email account to warrant creating separate folders to file away your various transaction dealings...AND YOU NEED SUBFOLDERS THAT MIMIC THE N54 B/S/T CATEGORIES !!!<br /><br />just for the record, I don't have such aforementioned subfolders...yet

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Posted By: <b>Joe D.</b><p>When Leon posts the site statistics / page hits....<br /><br />And you notice that a big drop in activity coincides with the vacation you just went on.

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Posted By: <b>E, Daniel</b><p>you think that E221 Bishops are cool looking cards <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>.<br /><br /><br />Daniel

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Posted By: <b>Texas Ted</b><p>You hear the word Cob, and corn is the second thing you think of.<br><br>Texas Ted<br />

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>These are some of my absolute favorites....if you collect vintage and don't think these look cool....not sure what I can say &gt;?? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1189630190.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>E, Daniel</b><p>It looks like you cut them out of an old newspaper...<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <br /><br /><br />Daniel<br /><br /><br />Ps. That is one stout looking bat-boy/mascot/catcher ????

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>When this guy shows up at your house every other day or so:<br /><br /><img src="http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j136/MapleCrispetteV117/Buy%20Sell%20Trade/thupsman.gif"><br /><br />Courtesy of Brad.

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Posted By: <b>Vincent</b><p>completing the applications for eHarmony and Match.com, you request a photograph . . . of her vintage sportscard collection.<br /><br /><br />I hope my wife doesn't see this post.

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Posted By: <b>Ed Ivey</b><p>you dream in lithographs.

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Posted By: <b>Kenneth A. Cohen</b><p>You know it's unreasonable, yet you get irritated anyway with your wife for not being home when the mailman brings a card package requiring signature for delivery. (Sad but true in my case.)

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>This is an embarrassing thread, excrutiating to read. And yet I can relate to 90% of what has been written. Pathetic.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p><br />You know you are addicted when........ <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <br /><br />You refer to your friends' ages by saying he or she is from the 1952, 1967 or 1971 series.<br /> <br />

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Posted By: <b>shane Leonard</b><p>you see the #311 and automatically think of Mickey Mantle. It is amazing that I can remember card numbers from all the sets that I have made over the years. <br /><br />If I could not fall asleep at night I would sometimes try to list the most popular card that Topps made in order and see how high I could go.<br /><br />Ex. #1 Pafko, #2 55' Williams .......... Some are pretty hard to have a great card, but it is fun to see if I can remember a popular card if not a great card.<br /><br />Shane

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Posted By: <b>Zinn</b><p>you decide that you've had enough of the BS on this Board and announce that you're leaving, never to return, only to return within days, weeks or months following your announcement.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>you have memorized all the grading company submission numbers that you have outstanding, and check the websites repeatedly each week even though you know the turnaround time is weeks away.<br />

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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>Zinn,<br /><br />You forgot to mention that some of this is interesting B.S. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Peter C.

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Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>you are trying to get a good look at the corners of the '60 aaron card in the sharp HD commercial to see how it would grade.

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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I do that EVERY time it's on...I'm sick

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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>Jason, Guys,<br /><br />Not sick...just addicted. So what's the cure for this addiction?<br /><br />Peter C.

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Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>peter the cure is wealth, too bad i cannot get ahold of the cure.

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Posted By: <b>Andy Cook</b><p>When a tv sportscaster mentions an old time player and you mentally picture his rookie card<br /><br />or <br /><br />If you're watching an old movie, instead of watching the movie, you think of the card sets issued in either the (a) year of production or (b) the year the movie was set in. This is particularly true if you are watching a movie with your wife that she picked out.<br /><br />andy

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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>When you spend several hours a day on this board. Mind you, I'm not speaking about me...yet. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Peter C.