Signs You’ve Been a Theatre Tech for Too Long

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  • Your weekend consists of Monday, and only Monday.
  • Q is not just a letter.
  • Public holidays that fall on Monday seem pointless to you.
  • You know more than one theory for the origin of the name greenroom.
  • You can only read from a light that is blue.
  • You consider the red part of a traffic light the standby.
  • You can’t remember what daylight looks like.
  • You tell more stories of what went wrong on shows you’ve done than what went smoothly.
  • Practical, Drop, and Flat are nouns.
  • Youd heard of Mandy Patinkin before he was on Chicago Hope.
  • 95% of your wardrobe is black.
  • You start wondering what it feels like to be a prop.
  • You know anything can be fixed with gaff tape, poly-filla, a sharpie, tie-line, a safety pin, or enough staples.
  • You’re the only person you know who has never seen Cats.
  • Your Halloween costume in some way utilizes running blacks and gaff tape.
  • Your Halloween costume brings to mind lines from Shakespeare.
  • You understand the jokes in Forbidden Broadway.
  • You insist on spelling theatre with an "re" not an "er".
  • Even while sitting in the audience, you call the left side of the stage right and the right side of the stage left.
  • Going to a restaurant means ordering and sitting down in McDonalds rather than going through the drive-thru.
  • Instead of saying that you’re leaving, you say you’re exiting.
  • At home, you strike your dishes to the kitchen.
  • You spike your furniture before vacuuming.
  • If someone asks you what time it is, you respond with something like, "Half hour til half hour."
  • You call text books scripts and scripts the book.
  • You have an insatiable need to coil all the cable in your house correctly.
  • The gaffer tape residue on your hands has become a second skin.
  • In the back pocket of all your black jeans, there is a faded area resembling a wrench.
  • Cherry Coke, Jolt Cola and Coffee are your new best friends – along with the vending machine.
  • Items on your birthday / holiday wish lists include: Tools, Sleep-in-a-Can, and InstaRespecta: Simply sprinkle liberally on actors and they will suddenly feel indebted to you forever.
  • You find yourself waiting at the bus stop, in the summer, when its 90 degrees in the shade, wearing black pants, a black Production Crew t-shirt, black boots / shoes, a black bag, and black sunglasses.
  • You’ve read the Techie Gospel so many times, you start to question why God didn’t use Techies.
  • You use a gel cutter to open a bag of chips.
  • You give and / or receive MagLites for special occasions (especially those mooshie romantic ones).
  • You eat, sleep, and breathe tech.
  • You only breathe tech
  • You own promotional items from tech companies.
  • You keep a list of creative ways to impale actors.
  • You paint your room black.
  • Someone asks you the time and you reply with 14 minutes till places, please.
  • You’ve discovered many interesting uses for a MagLite (lets keep our mind out of the gutter please)
  • You actually visit this web page and find it enjoyable.

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