You know you've been keeping newts too long when.....

[mark]

I saw a similar thread on a US herping forum and it made me laugh, so I thought I’d start one here.
A few to get the ball rolling…

You know you’ve been keeping newts too long when….

1 – You turn up at the pet shop and they’ve pre-ordered live food for you without even asking, or they say “The usual sir..?”
2- Buying a turkey baster is far less embarrassing than it should be.
3 – You get excited about the buy-one-get-one-free frozen blood worm deal and inadvertently fill the freezer up, much to the disgust of your wife.
4 – You become overly critical of plastic storage tubs… “It’s a nice size, but a shame the lid isn’t designed better”
5 – The guy in the bait shop knows not to start a conversation about fishing with you.

 

[edward]

6- your fingers are wrinkled and you haven't been swimming, washing dishes or taking a bath

7- your family knows not to put vegetables in the crisper drawer in the refigerator as its reserved for live food

(Message edited by Ed on March 24, 2006)

 

[tyler]

8- your favorite line from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is "She turned me into a newt!"

 

[foster]

9 - You cannot maintain a steady jog (while supposedly exercising) through a wooded park because you are constantly stopping to look under logs.

 

[mark]

10 - You're known in the neighborhood as that weird "newt guy".

 

[ali]

11- You're known in the dorm as the wierd girl who often takes mason jars full of funny looking gunk in to the toilet room to dump (leftovers from spot cleaning a tank.)

12. Your best reason for procrastinating homework is that you have no place to work because newt tanks take up your whole desk.

 

[joan]

13. You have difficulties finding someone competant (and willing!!) to babysit 30 newts when you go on vacation.

13.5 You plan your vacation around your newts. Or go newting on vacation.

 

[paris]

dont forget these-i think we got to over 140

http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/8/15852.html

 

[john]

No. 9 is my fav i think.

 

[kamil]

14. you're "famous" at the university and when you start flirting with a girl you never met before and tell her your name she says "Ah ... I know you - you are the guy with the newts, right?"

15. your professor asks you for help in newt things

 

[mark]

Paris - Does that mean we have to cross reference the old list for duplicates?!

16 – Your eyes develop an almost uncanny polarizing ability whilst staring into water bodies.

 

[jennifer]

17 - You choose to make purchases at discount stores and gas stations based on the kind of earthworms they sell.

18 - You lower your thermostat, not to save money or energy, but to get your pets "in the mood".

19 - You eye every horizontal surface in your home with the thought of "could I put an aquarium (or another aquarium) there?"

Among the other submissions, I can most closely relate to #4 and #13.

 

[meghan]

20. You hyperventalate when someone calls your salamanders "lizards" and could care less if you correct them.

 

[ali]

Jennifer, I loved #18, hehe.

 

[tyler]

21 - You house axolotls in your spare bathroom's bath tub.

 

[sarah]

22. Your sleeping in the shed because theres no room for you in the house!

(Message edited by sezzy5889 on March 25, 2006)

 

[william]

23. you come back to visit a newt website when your in a foreign country, from a smoke filled internet cafe....

...oh isn't that what i'm doing now???

 

[ian]

24. You will stop and think how you can cut out some branches of the potted plant everytime you pass by a pothos.

 

[sarah]

25. you begin to wonder what the strange pieces of skin are between your toes

 

[chris]

26. You go out fishing at night and don`t catch anything b/c you are having more fun searching for mudpuppies