That you purposely become too "hot" as an excuse to pull out your portable message fan from Rite-Aid so the fan blades can flash some tricky message referencing that you are a talented magician...

When you dress up exactly like Mandrake the magician every day.

When you check for new Comedy messages from Father Photius, jay leslie, MagicBus, and JamesTong everyday....

no, wait, make that three times a day.

-=tabman

When someone says "Burning Man", you think of Jeff McBride.

When you realize you can leave your house without your pants, but never without props.

When you are asked by your wife to buy a big parasol for family use, you came back from the mall with 2 dozens parasols of different color, size and design, and you gave the not so good looking one to your wife so you can hope to use the great looking ones for your performances which are still under construction.

You still wear your Doug Henning hippie shirts and bell bottom slacks...

When you are pleading to other magicians so you can have permission to copy their acts ... and you want to copy everyone's act so that you can tell everyone that you can performed every magicians act exactly as they perform them and you are so proud of being a copycat magician.

Or when you plead with James for permission to copy his balls - every one of them -exactly as they appear on the finest tables.

When your wife divorces you because you spend to much money on you magic addiction.

Never happen to me but I have heard of it..

When your magic buddies have to kick you out of their houses every time you are there because you just spend time talking and doing magic and do not know when to stop and how time flies and when you reached home you find yourself kicked out of your own house by your wife because you spend too much time and money on magic.

When you are going on vacation with your spouse to Pigeon Forge, and just happens by coincidence to be in August, at the Music Road Hotel where the KIDabra! convention is at during the same time period, and she thinks you are going there to see Dollywood, go hiking in the Smokies, visit the sites, relax, etc.. Pssssst, don't tell her!

You only date girls that can make phone calls and fit in the boxes.

When your favorite cup and ball set is still the one that came with your Mark Wilson TV Magic set from the 1950's

When you are eagerly waiting with excitement for the next parcel that will be delivered to you soon.

I don't have time to respond, The UPS guy is at the door.

(STOP IT, Jay, your killing me. Your timing has been too good lately.)

When the UPS man greets you at the door with "Here is more magic."

And the UPS man looks like Hank Lee.

When you look at a menu and it says "pick one" and you think "three of clubs."

When you post your business card everywhere you go...