You just might be a fieldherper if...
...you have more pictures of reptiles than you have of your family...
...you have a flat rock fetish
...you are attracted to piles of trash
...you schedule your family vacations around the best locations for herping
...you don't mind getting bitten a few times by a whipsnake just to get that perfect picture...
...you have more Nature Field Guides in your book collection than best sellers and think that's normal...
...getting sprayed by snake musk is just one of the smells of spring that you enjoy....
...you drive by a board on the side of the road and you just HAVE to go back to flip it to ease your mind
...while watching a movie, you pick out a Marsh frog call from the "country night" sounds in the background
...you go to distant family events (like your cousin's wedding) only if the local herping conditions are promising
...for your wife's birthday you take her herping
...on your lunch break you skip lunch to check a local park for snakes
...your diet consists largely of gas station food
...you sleep with a snake hook under your pillow
...you start going crazy and nuts, and jumping all around weeks/months/ minutes before a herp trip or outing
...you absolutely hate going anywhere where herp numbers are low
...actually believe your wife or girlfriend when she tells you she enjoys herping
...you will pick up huge viper and run from a bee two minutes later screaming
...a field full of boards is exciting to you
...you spend time putting those boards there!
...you know the weather at your favorite spot, but have no clue what its like outside...and you don't care
...if you can tell the temperature to within two degrees with your hand
...you go to work half-dead so you can save your sick days for the springtime
...you check fieldherping.eu the first thing in the morning, when you get to work, on your breaks, as soon as you get home, right before dinner, after dinner, and before you go to bed
...you read this thread from start to finish
Happy herping!
