*It's only a few miles down the road, means 50 miles, at least

*You have more pictures of the pulling tractor than of the kids

*Some of your best friends live 100 miles away

*You are the only female in the bridge club who knows what cam 2 is

*The pull dates, along with a road map are posted on the refrigerator

*You find yourself explaining to Grandma why you can not go 15 miles for

            Sunday dinner, but you can go 150 miles for a pull

*You have not been to your family reunion for years because it is scheduled

        the same Saturday as the big pull of the season

*I need a little help fixing the tractor means forget the cleaning, washing,

        and dinner; the morning's shot

*The pulling tractor gets waxed more often that your floors

*You can't make it to church on time, but can be an hour and half early to a

        tractor pull

*The UPS man cannot believe that little boxes can costs that much

*As soon as I get the tractor running, I'll fix the faucet -- means call the

        plumber

*Weddings and births are scheduled around the tractor pulling season

*Your neighbors think you are crazy, your friends wonder, and you know you

-You forget to turn your fuel on and your just past the false start line.

-You go to the scale being assured you put enough weight on your tractor and the scale indicates your 30 lbs light and your trailer is about 400 yards away.

-Its 100 degrees outside, nature calls and the only porta potty is basking in the hot sun with an inside temperture of about 140 degrees.

-You work all night long on your machine and the pull is rained out the next day.

-Your job gets in the way of tractor pulling.

-Your tractor breaks at the biggest pull of the year.

-You drive like a lunatic at your hometown pull and end up at the bottom of the class.

-You have the only truly stock tractor in the stock class.

-You're cheating and somebody else beats you that is cheating worse than you are.

-Your the first puller and you turn down a winning pull only to go 10' less on the second attempt and place out of the money.

-You protest a puller and you lose your protest money.