You Know You Play Too Much World of Warcraft When…

  • You are in the forest and see a bear and you try to make him your pet.
  • You yell “LFG” when being picked for sports teams.
  • You inspect people’s clothing to see if they are enchanted.
  • You don’t know someone’s name and you look above their head.
  • You go to a funeral and you try to loot the corpse.
  • You pass a cop and wonder if you just aggroed him.
  • You ask a store clerk how much you can sell your shoes for.
  • You buy a bag from the store and you check to see how many slots it has.
  • You visit airports just to get more flight paths.
  • You ask to be Master Looter when shopping at the mall.
  • You wonder if real wolves have belts and shoes on them.
  • You pick up a rock and try to use it as a hearthstone.
  • Talking cows and zombies don’t scare you.
  • You brag to your friends that your belt gives you +5 stamina.
  • You think life ends at age 70.
  • You ask the nearest police officer where the closet weapon vendor is.
  • You try to book a trip to Azeroth.
  • You walk into a bar and ask for Stratholm Holy Water.
  • You get mad when you’re not allowed to deposit your weapons in the bank.
  • You run around the streets wearing nothing but underwear, shouting “GOLD PLS!”
  • You buy a horse on your 40th birthday.
  • You buy an even better horse on your 60th birthday.
  • You buy a small plane on your 70th birthday.
  • You climb on top of your mailbox and dance.
  • You are still reading this.
  • You go to a car dealer and ask whether the cars will increase your speed by 60% or by 100%.
  • You ask whether mithril spurs are an option.
  • You try to find a Mini Diablo at the local pet store.
  • You walk to the next nearest city so you can fly there next time.
  • You stop wondering why your backpack can hold 16 pairs of boots, but can’t hold 17 rings.
  • You go to a park and pick flowers to improve your Herbalism skill.
  • You start mining stones.
  • You melt pennies and try to turn them into copper bars.
  • Someone asks you where something is and you yell at them to look it up on thottbot.
  • You ignore a level 60 demon, but remember when you ran screaming from a level 5 bear.
  • You ride the bus to work, telling everyone that you’re saving up for your epic mount.
  • On blah wintery days, you wish you could type “.wchange 0 0″ to make the sun come out.
  • You rip your pants and try to have them fixed at a blacksmith shop.
  • You install your own MaNGOS server just so you can play on Tuesday mornings.
  • You look for the NumLock button when driving in your car.
  • No matter what you’re doing on your computer, you first put three fingers on the A, W, and D keys.
  • You drink ten cans of RedBull to increase your run speed by 30%.
  • You ask everyone you meet, “Wanna join my guild?”
  • Someone asks you to pick up something for them and you say “Inventory is Full.”
  • You take the subway and wish it had an underground aquarium.
  • You start expecting rewards for doing work.
  • A beautiful girl asks you out on a date. You refuse because your guild is doing a Naxx raid.
  • You didn’t think the World of Warcraft South Park episode was all that funny.
  • You check your in-game mail to see how your auctions are doing before you check your email.
  • When you see “Wow” in advertisements, you wonder why they got the capitalization wrong.
  • Having read this, you now want to play.

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Responses

5 Responses to “You Know You Play Too Much World of Warcraft When…”

  1. Response #1
    Edwin Leach (IP) on May 13th, 2007 at 7:21 am

    Read your post… you might like this relevant video we found:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXocZlVMpro

  2. Response #2
    Kia (IP) on September 11th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    I have to admit, I had a “you know” moment while I was traveling, by car, on vacation and wanted to click on the car in front of me and put myself on follow. Maybe I should email Toyota with my suggestion.

  3. Response #3
    GJK (IP) on November 14th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    lol I do check my in-game mail far, far more often then email

  4. Response #4
    Will (IP) on June 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    You know you’ve been playing too much WoW when you’re driving up a hill and wish you could change the camera angle to check for oncoming cars.

    That actually happened to me. :)

  5. Response #5
    Cédric (IP) on October 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    Lol I agree, and it’s true I wanna reactivate my account, and I do put my fingers on AWD even tho I stopped playing 3 months ago LOL
    wow this is so real XD

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