Items with a "*" beside them mean that I made then up. All un-stared items come from various lists floating around the web.
April 12th is your sister’s birthday, but you are more compelled to send a card to Amy Ray
Every time you go to the music store, you go straight to the "I" section just to be sure nothing new came out (and you feel a certain joy when wading through the older releases)
*You find yourself getting pissy when someone attributes lines from "Romeo and Juliet" or "Thin Line" to the Indigo Girls. Come on, everyone should know that they’re covers! The same thing goes for when people misquote lines from IG songs.
*You think that July 22nd and April 12th ought to be national holidays. I mean, Washington has one, right?
You fall asleep in History 101, but you jump up and say, "WHERE?"
when the teacher says the colonists sent rice, cotton, and INDIGO to
England.
You know you are an obsessed fan when you go to a demo tour show and
you realize that everybody is staring at you because you can already sing
along with the unreleased material thanks to your bootleg collection.
*Whenever someone says the word "hootenanny," or "thanks y’all!" you get all excited.
Channel thirty-four is listed as A&E, and you think this means
continuous showings of Watershed and Live at the Uptown Lounge
You are inclined to watch a horror film (even though you hate the
genre) because it's called Prince of Darkness
In Geometry class, you name all the angles of a triangle R-O-P,
N-I-S, and M-A-P
*You hate Mac computers, but you’re tempted to go out and buy the new indigo iMac just to say you have an indigo computer
You are tempted to steal the black CD divider that says "Indigo
Girls" from the music store
There's a headline in the newspaper, "Emily Winds Up in Hospital,"
and you read the article to check and see if Ms. Saliers is alright
*The DJ on the crappy top 40 station (which occasionally plays "Shame on You") knows you as the "harassing person who calls the station every day requesting "Watershed" or "Center Stage"
You go out and buy one of those Timex "Indiglo" watches just
because--well, you get the picture
You had tapes of the versions of the songs that appeared on 1200
curfews and you have a sneaky suspicion that one of your tapes is a
lower generation than the master tapes
*Sulli knows your name and asks what you’ve been up to in between IG tours.
*Whenever you go to an IG show, you meet at least 5 people you know from "The List" and engage in Indigo banter, confusing the friends who you brought to the show
*You know (and can sing along to) every IG song, released OR unreleased
The sales clerk remembers you as the "Indigo Girls guru," pulls out a
notepad, and asks you what the Girls are currently up to
*For your birthday you ask for 77 cent stamps, Maxell gold tapes, and padded envelopes – supplies for IG boot trading.
*If you get IG concert tickets that are worse than 10th row, you’ll always get closer by a) lying to security or b) buying better tickets from a sketchy scalper or c) pushing your way to the front and refusing to move.
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April 12th is your sister’s birthday, but you are more compelled to send a card to Amy Ray
