~ you go Lindy hopping on the way to a Lindy hop lesson
~ your heart beats to the rhythm : Thump, thump, thump-de-dump, thump, thump, thump-de-dump
~ you think that the next number after eight is one
~ you know what "real men let go on five" means
~ you notice your feet moving when you are bored... You discover they are practicing a new break move for the Shim Sham
~ you no longer notice strange looks you get as you practice the Shim Sham or Jitterbug Stroll in the halls of your dorm, grocery store, etc
~ you can't watch other forms of dance without trying to identify moves that could be turned into swing steps or aerials
~ you go through withdrawals when your dance partner leaves for two days; you CAN'T WAIT to show him/her the new moves you've thought up
~ you wake up in the morning frantically trying to remember the dream you had, because you clearly remember yourself doing a smooth move (that you don't yet know) in your sleep
~ when you try to fall asleep, you no longer count sheep. You choreograph your next Friday night!
~ you use the term "swinger" to describe yourself and your friends
~ you've been called a Lindy Whore... and it made you smile
~ you bring your own CD's when you go to a social event "just in case"
~ you told a beautiful young lady/guy who asked you out, "No, wait, I'm dancing that night."
~ your friends no longer bother to ask you what you're doing on Friday, Saturday, Sunday... nights
~ your newest line is "Hey, are those new shoes?" and you really DO want to talk about shoes
~ when you meet a new person you decide to go out with him/her based on if he/she can dance or how hard it would be to teach him/her.
~ you suffer some other major bodily harm and still want to dance
~ you don't wear your dance shoes off the dance floor
~ you can tell how long someone has been dancing by the shoes they are wearing
~ you shake your head at girls who wear HEELS to go out at night
~ someone says "nice whip" and they are not complementing your dungeon accessories
~ if someone says 'tandem', they're not talking about a bicycle
~ when the band is playing a slow song you Lindy to it in double time
~ you routinely bring a change of clothes, water, and a towel or two for a night out (in addition to an ankle brace)
~ you drink eight glasses of water a night, and only need to use the restroom for hand washing
~ you stop caring if your partner thinks it's unattractive that your shirt is soaked through with sweat
~ East Coast bores you
~ you don't need a sweater in January when you go out for the night
~ you eat your main meal of the day at one in the morning
~ the first question you ask a girl is "How much do you weigh?" cause when you pick up girls, you pick up girls...
~ you frequently show up to school or at work with a limp and/or bruises
~ you no longer buy clothes you can't dance in
~ your whole wardrobe costs less than your first dancing shoes (thank goodness for second-hand stores)
~ someone says vintage; they're not talking about wine
~ you pray that forties clothing never comes back into style, so you can still afford it
~ you have black and white feet
~ more than one person can fit in your pants
~ you decide not to go on a trip because it's the same weekend as a Lindy Exchange. If fact, you would schedule business trips around dance nights
~you spend every long weekend at Lindy camps, workshops or competitions
~ when deciding what college to go to, your deciding factor was whether or not the school had a Swing Club
~ while working as a tour guide for your school, you realize that you only try to recruit the prospective students who already know how to swing
~ your roommate (who didn't know what swing was 2 months ago) has gone from listening to rap to downloading Benny Goodman under her own free will
~ you have had complaints on the residence floor below about the constant 'thump thump thump-de-dump' at all hours
~ you swerve all over the road listening to the oldies station
~ you envy the dance floors of clubs in other cities
~ instead of studying for your exams or doing your work, you spend the day surfing swing sites on the internet
~ you spend non-club nights studying old footage of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
~ you saw Swing Kids five times whether you liked it or not
~ you bought a copy of Disney's "The Jungle Book" to see the animated Lindy dancing monkeys
~ you are a "swinger" with multiple partners who likes to "shag", several times a night and enjoys "messin' around" during breaks... all this and you're still a virgin!
~ you greet all potential dance partners with a shy, "I'm not really very good." (just so they'll be pleasantly surprised...)
~ you still feel embarrassed about sweating in public
~ you really, really want to buy a pair of Bleyer's... but then people will expect you to be good. You buy the Bleyer's anyway
~ you go to a "beginner" workshop and one of the other students says, "But you're not a beginner - I saw you at the club."
~ you wear short twirly skirts, so that people will think, "Ooh, nice legs..." instead of, "Ew...bad dancing."
~ men try to teach you to swivel, swivel and you actually figure out how to swivel, swivel
~ you discover that a vacuum has the perfect follow frame
~ you practice "seven-and-eight"s with the sides of doors
~ you think about Swing whenever you're not actually doing it