When you take your dog to a Flea Market, thinking you'll pick up a few good fleas.

When you practice your pick-up lines, to use on the fleas.

When you plastic-coat your tweezers so you won't do any harm to your new employees.

You buy a carpet remnant so you're fleas feel more at home.

Then you move into the dog house so all your fleas can have the run of your house.

You find yourself standing in line with the PETA people because you're protesting the mistreatment of fleas.

When you decide that your fleas should have a life of their own and not be exploited.

and finally a light goes on.

So you load all your flea friends back on the dog, take them back to the flea market & wish them a good life.

Then years later, you wipe a tear from your eye as you look at the old photos and remember them well.

You start to read 58 pages of posts when you were supposed to be working!

Keep reading.... none of us works hard either

On page 34...so tired...

There will be a quiz, on this.

You wash your mirror glasses in the dishwasher and it looks like twice as many in the racks...

You keep washing the same spot because you're seeing a reflection of the dirt.

When you go to Wal-Mart looking for the biggest can opener they have so you can impress your friends with your "really big opener." ... When someone has said to you "Is there a magic trick in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" (and not talking about illusioninyourpocket.com)... When you know that "Stoner's" has nothing to do with pot... Shave a widow's peak into your hairline to look like Max Maven...

When somebody says "disappearing bikini" and you think its a magic trick.

And you like the trick better than the real thing.

And you are wondering whether you can develop different versions of it.

You have all your tricks catagorized in cigar boxes...

When your cigar smoking can't keep up with the demand for magic filled cigar boxes.

When you buy cigars but never smoke them, just for the boxes.

When you collect cigar boxes because others are doing so and you do not know what to do with them.

When you take your stage name from a cigar. (White owl? Cohiba? Blackstone? nah never would work)

I like DAVIDOFF. You know you spending too much time with magic when you spend hours and hours (and even more hours) trying to figure out how to use http://www.youtube.com to get a 2 minute magic video posted there (put "Color Changing Ball + Chen Lee Water" in the search box).

When you have a huge collection of IT types, but you don't know which is which because you can"t see them...

When you start dreaming about comedy magic performances you have seen and start laughing loudly in your sleep and wake up your wife in the middle of the night.

You cut your birthday cake, and wish for magic instead of socks...