Humor about the Sims.

"The Sims" is a video game created by Maxis (a division of Electronic Arts).   I do not own the copyrights to the game, but this text is mine, all mine!  <Evil maniacal laugh.>

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"You Know You've Been Playing The Sims Too Long, When..."

• You imagine an octahedron above your head at any time.
• The octahedron turns red when anything bad happens.
• The tub is just too damn comforting to go answer the phone.
• You see any sort of fire and begin running about, waving your hands in the air and shouting.
• To make your family leave you alone, you stand up, make a sweeping gesture with your arms, and pronounce: "Ttar! Ttar!"
• People call you randomly and tell you that, to live in harmony with your house, you have to dress accordingly.
• If something disgusts you, you stand up, sweep your arms back and forth, and proclaim: "uh-UH, uh-UH!"
• You keep waiting for the carpool to arrive, even though you've driven to work for years.
• You find yourself saying out loud, "I'm too depressed to study." (Followed by "Ok.")
• You keep looking for the cab to get downtown. [Hot Date only]
• You are extremely surprised to find that time has actually passed while you were downtown. [Hot Date only]
• You tell your boss you will only accept Simoleons as compensation from now on--and it had better be at least 100 per day.
• You get the urge, in the middle of a fight with your roommate, to pick up a hankie tied to a stick and proclaim, "I'm out of here for good!"
• You can't figure out why pizza is only twenty bucks, when it should be forty.
• You find yourself at odd moments singing, "Shpa, Shpa, oobie doobie oobie doobie Shpa!"
• Your Significant Other asks you to play, so you curl up under the covers and begin growling.
• You're mildly surprised that all your bills are white, no matter how overdue.
  
  And the number one way you know you've been playing The Sims too long...
• You keep writing "Ctrl-Shift-C rosebud" desperately on everything you find!
  
  [If you don't get that, go try it in the game.]