You know when you're obsessed with paintball when...

[paint magnet]

You know you're obsessed with SPEEDball when you play woods and are yelling out the enemy positions "He's behind the tree! The tree!" lol I did that and didn't even realize how stupid that was (especially with only woods players around) until the next day

You tell people you play paintball when they ask what sports you play...

...and even if they don't you tell them anyway

If the majority of your dreams take place at a paintball field

You gain more muscle carrying your stuff to the field than working out at a gym
or
You have to work out at a gym to be able to carry all your stuff to the field

You calculate large sums of money in cases of paint or other stuff like Freak barrel inserts, etc

You buckle your marker in for the drive to the field

I'm running out of ideas, maybe I'll think of more soon

[Benfica4ever]

When someone that doesent play paintball says anything about a pb gun, you ask what kind was it?or if they dont know. wat did it look like?(i do it all the time)

[paint magnet]

Yeah, the other day some kid was talking about how he lit up all his buddies with his 'full automatic Angel' after crawling through a swamp and covering himself in mud and breathing through a straw to avoid being seen. Whats amazing is that people actually believe stuff like that.

[Halo2x]

1. Your try to stay on good terms with your ups man in hopes he will deliver your newest gun/ part sooner.

2. You moved closer to the UPS Wharhouse so you will get your packages sooner.

[TheJester]

the highlight of your month, yes, i said month, is being asked to cover your local paintball shop for a day because they have to go to a tourney.

[chizle97]

You know your obsessed with paintball when....

When you read every post of this 5 page thread.

You dont eat lunch to save money for paint/equipment

When you use a drill as you would a marker and people ask "what are you doing?" and you say "Guy behind the traveler ref" . (I was in a theater at the time)

You sit up in the light booth and wonder how much fun it would be to unload hopper after hopper onto the enoying chorus people on the stage below.(also in a theater)

You want to bunker all the enoying actors that take your work for granted. (not all actors just divas.)

[Lee]

you make your kid take pb stuff to shop class to sandblast for you.

someone surprises you at work and you move for cover or duck.

you practice snap shooting at people on tv.

you have one of each paintball category on your favorite ebay searches.

you have a custom made case on your living room wall with old school artifacts in it.

you have no clean white t-shirts, so you wear a mostly white pb shirt under your dress shirt for you kids high school graduaiton.

when you go to a field you've never been to before and they ask you how you like it, you start off with "at the last field i worked at....."

you have to make more than one trip from your vehicle to the staging area.

you drive a truck or suv because it's the best way to get all your stuff to a field that may not have the best access road, and you can nap in it at a 24 hour game.

your idea of decor is an oversized 68 automag sticker thumb tacked to your living room wall.

8 days until i can play again...does it show?

[elpimpo]

you try and go to a field on your crutches but they woulnt let you because its to slick.

you go the day you get off your crutches.

[paint magnet]

You play paintball the day after a serious injury (like breaking your arm or something

People don't even know your room has wallpaper because you have so many paintball posters put up

Nearly everything you own is covered in paintball stickers, whether it is related to paintball or not

The people at the gas station look at you funny because you just bought another gallon of Gatorade and you're all sweaty from playing

...and its only 10:00

...and its the third time you've been since you started playing

...and it probably won't be the last

You have used paintball as a theme in a major assignment for school

...and you used it as an excuse to look up paintball stuff and chat on AO

...and you put it off until the last minute to do other paintball related stuff

At night you lie awake and think of the games you played that day and how you can improve

You've actually worn nice clothes not intended for paintball because you 'happened' to be at the field at an good time and didnt have anything else to wear

You wear clothes with paint stains on them and think nothing of it

You alter other sports to help you practice for paintball (me and my friend played racquetball but decided it was much more fun to TRY to hit each other, that left a couple bruises )

When you get a shot or something you think of paintball to take your mind off the pain

You rate hardware and home improvement stores based not on how far away they are but how much paintball stuff they carry (like loctite, teflon tape, elbows, etc)

You've ever played paintball in your backyard

...and you live in the city

You are a safety freak when it comes to paintball but when you get home you blow stuff up for fun (guilty :) )and don't think anything about it

You not only have posters covering your walls but your entire house has a 'paintball theme' to it (can't you just imagine inflatable chairs with Sup' Air bunker logos on them?)

You have a framed professional photograph of your marker anywhere in your house

...and its bigger than the pictures of your relatives

...and you moved your relatives pictures to put it there

[elpimpo]

Originally posted by elpimpo
you try and go to a field on your crutches but they woulnt let you because its to slick.

you go the day you get off your crutches.

it sucked not being able to run i got the worse bunkering of my life

[Torbo]

Originally posted by paint magnet
You have used paintball as a theme in a major assignment for school

...and you used it as an excuse to look up paintball stuff and chat on AO

...and you put it off until the last minute to do other paintball related stuff

So true. Im doing it Right Now. lol

[m-98]

paint magnet this is kinda like your shot thing...

You don't mind getting shot in the head half a dozen times with paintballs in under a second, but you scream and cry when you have to get a shot.

You've seriously considered sending a letter to your city's recration department to get them to build and indoor paintball field.

[elpimpo]

Originally posted by m-98
paint magnet this is kinda like your shot thing...

You don't mind getting shot in the head half a dozen times with paintballs in under a second, but you scream and cry when you have to get a shot.

You've seriously considered sending a letter to your city's recration department to get them to build and indoor paintball field.

lmao you cry when you get a shot.

[paint magnet]

Yeah, it doesn't bother me getting shot, so I'll stay calm and then come home and stub my toe on a rock or something and scream curse words at it

Some more:

Instead of having your marker on display you have it locked away in some vault and have to memorize half a dozen different combinations to get to it

...and it makes you forget important stuff like your birthday and social security number

...and you acess the vault at least twice a day

...and you have other, more valuable stuff just sitting around on the table or something, like a Rembrandt painting or the holy grail :)

You're more anxious waiting for your X mag to arrive than your important medical records

...and they are about some life-threatening illness

...the packages arrive at the same time and you open the X mag first

...and play with it before bothering to open the other one

...and you find out you have a brain tumor or something and your main concern is that you won't be able to play with your X mag if you die, or for a long time after surgery

You get paintball stuff for special occasions and holidays

You actually know the mailman and have had in depth discussions about paintball after he wondered what was up with all the packages he was delivering

The Post Office gives you a frequent-shipper discount on packages

[TheJester]

when you have a 5 min convo on what the game is all about with your math teacher. and getting him to say that as soon as his back gets better he'll play