10. You've responded "yes" to the question, "What
have you got in there, rocks?"
9. You've taken a 22-passenger van over "roads" that were really intended only for cattle.
8. You've found yourself trying to explain to airport security that a rock hammer isn't really a weapon.
7. Your rock garden is located inside your house.
6. You've hung a picture using a Brunton as a level.
5. Your collection of beer cans and/or bottles rivals the size of your rock collection.
4. You consider a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years.
3. Your photos include people only for scale and you have more pictures of your rock hammer and lens cap than of your family.
2. You've been on a field trip that included scheduled stops at a gravel pit and/or a liquor store.
And the #1 sign you might be a geologist:
1. You have uttered the phrase "have you tried licking
it", but no sexual connotation was involved.