Signs That You're A Mediaeval Re-enactor
A quick word of thanks and acknowledgment to Gwerin Y Gwyr from whose site we got this idea.
- ...you're in the middle of a long, boring phone call in the office and you catch yourself watching people out of the window and thinking "I could pick 'em off from here, no problem..."
- ...you spit or sneer knowingly every time someone mentions Kevin Costner.
- ...you can't hear any of the William Tell Overture without explaining to anyone who doesn't get away fast enough that he was really a crossbowman...
- ...you either wince or lash out instinctively any time someone mentions Robin Hood.
- ...you can neither watch nor hear about 'That Scene' from Prince of Thieves without explaining why it's impossible, even if you rip the fletchings off.
- ...you've ever been unable to hold a pen on Monday morning because your fingers are still too sore.
- ...you can carry all of your week's shopping in bags hung from the first two fingers of your right hand and they don't go numb.
- ...you can't see anything with concentric circles on it without closing one eye.
- ...you hear someone screaming "Fire! Fire!" and your first reaction is to shout "No you fool, it's 'Shoot'!"
- ...whilst driving on the motorway, you calculate your distance from the car in front by working out how much elevation you'd have to use to put a bodkin through its back window.
- ... when you stop to get some money on the back from an event and the bunch of ruffians hanging around the cash point suddenly feel the need to be elsewhere without commenting on your bizarre clothes.
- ... somewhere mentions that mead should be chilled or mulled, and you think it should be swigged from the bottle.
- ... The phrase "So is that like the sealed knot" causes a violent reaction.
- ... when a frying pan is a perfectly good thing to heat water in.
- ... you know exactly what they are doing wrong in the "Life In..." recreation TV series.
- ... When you're looking for a new home, the length of the garden is the most important feature, with a 20 yard minimum.
- ... You spend the winter trying to make a bow and arrows out of pipelagging so you're safe in the kiddies battle next year (fat chance)
- ... Whenever you pass a yew tree, you stand and stare at it thoughtfully, trying to decide which bits you could get a nice bow out of
