You know when you are addicted to pinball when... you own manuals to machines that you do not own.
Your turn.
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Louisville, KY
When you try to save up money to buy a machine for a friend so you'll have another machine to play, without it taking up space you don't have.
Kamloops, BC
Your friends bring their pinballs to your house to fix.
You have all the highscores on your buddies pins 
You search craiglist/mr pinball/kijiji/ebay/buysell every 45seconds checking for new pinball listings, even if you don't have room for anymore...
Quoted from tomdotcom:You have all the highscores on your buddies pins [
Good one!
These quotes are great!
When you can recall every issue you have dealt with on your machine but cant remember what you had for dinner two nights ago.
When you no longer discuss a new aquisition with your friends because of their eye rolls... followed by the inevitable words another one.
When you rationalize that living room furniture is not really necessary if the room is filled with pins.
When your diet consists of noodles and hamburger helper in order to save for the next machine.
When you are donating blood to pay for the next order of LED's from Cointaker.
Quoted from Kane:You're willing to suffer the wrath of your spouse for bringing in another machine and never, ever, ever, tell her how much it cost.
Amen to that, brother! 
... When you can't sleep at night until you've fixed that darn switch #26 error.
When ( as I have just done ) you spend an hour changing bulbs with many different combinations and still not happy, have to order some more colors to see if they are just right!
When you lie in bed trying to decide which pin to get next and giving them scores for different characteristics!!!!!
Enough
Nailsea
Quoted from The_Gorilla:When you reply to this thread on your droid phone as you're sitting on the toilet
tmi 
Quoted from The_Gorilla:Yeah, dave but did it make you grin???
yes
Quoted from emo:When you get called up to talk on a Sunday Morning radio!
nice!
Quoted from The_Gorilla:When you reply to this thread on your droid phone as you're sitting on the toilet
So that's the foul smell coming from the vents in my laptop!
Quoted from davewtf:when you have a pin set up in front of the throne. sounds like a good idea...
when the bathroom remodel includes design for having a (widebody) pinball in front of the throne. 
Quoted from Holy_Pickle:go to Pinside
What, you don't have it as an open tab all the time?
When you pay $75 for a pristine table top TOMY AMERICAN PINBALL machine.....which I did.
When you find a pinball league being played in a volleyball house which has already started and you join anyway....which I did too.
...you start equating your real life experiences to those found in the pinball realm.
i.e. You're running from the cops in your fire engine red Lambo, and you turn to the smoking hot buxom blonde sitting next to you, and say "Don't worry babe, this is just like High Speed II..."
Or you're at Medieval Times with your kids, and during the competition they shout, "JOUUUUST!!! Multiball MADness!!!"
Quoted from The_Gorilla:When you reply to this thread on your droid phone as you're sitting on the toilet
You win gorilla. You are addicted.
When you drive 4 hours on a rainy Sunday to play a complete strangers pins. Thanks again Pintucky, had a blast!
When you buy a game on ebay and sell it to a friend that you know wants it more than you before you even get it delivered. It came sat in my garage and I drove it 7 hours to my friend who I knew wanted it more than I did. I sorta wished I had kept it to at least play it for a bit. He loves it though.
While having sex with your wife,you ask her if your Marco order came in today.
What? No "slap-save", brz??? 
When you justify, in your head, that eating Ramen noodles every day to save up for a pin is perfectly normal
What is this "in your head" stuff? I've been eating Ramen since LOTR came home late April! No justification needed, it is mandatory!
I have been able to dress it up a bit for weekly variety though, so it's not all bad...
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I think you will be O.K. Rick! Let me know if you need any recipes.
You take apart and reassemble your drop targets 5 different times, tweaking and tweaking to fix that one lone target that isn't scoring, to finally get him working.
Maybe this is more just being a perfectionist.
Litvinov
My half-penneth of things I've been through:
When you go sigthtseeng with your family and the first thought when you're looking round some villa is how many pins can fit in each room...
When you move house because the house you're in has a garden that's too small to build a gamesroom that's big enough to hold the pins you want to keep.
When you make a bed out of pins as a space saving excercise so you can own a few more.
When you buy a 2nd van, because the 1st one is full of games that you can't put anywhere.
Quoted from donjagra:When you start giving pins as gifts.
i tried giving my space shuttle to my dad but he said he'd leave it in his garage, so i didn't.
Quoted from mykquillion:When you try to save up money to buy a machine for a friend so you'll have another machine to play, without it taking up space you don't have.
That's good. My brother just caved and is going to allow me to put machines at his house. He lives across the street from me so I willl be able to play them. He saw the seven I got in the trailer and Diner was near the back. That is the one he wants the most because he want to play off the theme. He told me he thinks he could get three or so in the space. I was thinking 5.
Quoted from pinballslave:When you make a bed out of pins as a space saving excercise so you can own a few more.
When you buy a 2nd van, because the 1st one is full of games that you can't put anywhere.
Hilarious Pinballslave! 
Quoted from thebrave:It's just a matter of time before I get fired.
I know that feeling!! I'm going to have to ask the IT depertment to block me from this site!!
Quoted from mykquillion:Hilarious Pinballslave
That bed was very comfortable by the way, it was 4 standard width cabs turned on their side... 3 of them had the playfields facing outwards to make it 'attractive' (to me at least!!)...
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