Self-Test: What are the Signs of Pinbalism?

1. Do you buy heavily when you are disappointed, under pressure or have had a quarrel
with someone?
2. Can you handle more Pinballs now than when you first started to buy them?
3. Have you ever been unable to remember part of the previous evening, even though
your friends say you didn’t pass out after playing pinball?
4. When playing pinball with other people, do you try to have a few extra games when others
won’t know about it?
5. Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable if pinball is not available?
6. Are you more in a hurry to get your first game of the day than you used to be?
7. Do you sometimes feel a little guilty about your pinball?
8. Has a family member or close friend express concern or complained about your pinball?
9. Have you been having more memory “blackouts” recently?
10. Do you often want to continue playing after your friends say they’ve had enough?
11. Do you usually have a reason for the occasions when you play heavily?
12. When you’re sober, do you sometimes regret things you did or said while playing?
13. Have you tried switching from EM's to SS's, or following different plans to control your
buying?
14. Have you sometimes failed to keep promises you made to yourself about controlling or
cutting down on your buying?
15. Have you ever had a BWI (buying while intoxicated) or BUI (buying under the influence
of pinball) violation, or any other legal problem related to your pinball?
16. Do you try to avoid family or close friends while you are buying pinballs?
17. Are you having more financial, work, school, and/or family problems as a result of
your buying pinballs?
18. Has your physician ever advised you to cut down on your buying?
19. Do you eat very little or irregularly during the periods when you are buying pinballs?
20. Do you sometimes have the “shakes” in the morning and find that it helps to have a
“little” Pinside, RGP or pinballnews of some kind?
21. Have you recently noticed that you can’t buy as much as you used to?
22. Do you sometimes play for several days at a time?
23. After periods of buying pinballs, do you sometimes see or hear things that aren’t there?
24. Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your pinball?
25. Do you ever feel depressed or anxious before, during or after periods of heavy playing?
26. Have any of your blood relatives ever had a problem with pinball?

Supreme commander. Lol

Remember its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

When you reach about 15-16 games, they're easier to hide among the herd.

Since Halloween is close and if you get caught like a star trek character in a red shirt best say the pinballs are future coffins for a scary decoration you plan on building.
At the very least it will buy some time till it hits the fan.
Trick or treat commander honey.

I am tempted to pick up a "temporary" game for my haunted halloween arcade.

Easy for you to say. My 14 year-old usually busts me (by asking in front of the SC), "Dad, when/where did you get that new game???"

"All your Base Are Belong to Us"

I believe that you need to slip the bouncer a $20 to keep his mouth shut.

your unmarried friends are good storage locations

**** I assume she doesn't visit this website *********

Remember it's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Yup, This is my problem too!!

The motto of the divorced man...