An “I’ve been playing WoW too long” momentFollow

I was driving to work this morning in typical autumn weather. The temperature was dropping, the rain was falling is soft sheets and the wind was blowing in heavy gusts. I was thinking about what I needed to do once I reached my destination as I passed over a concrete bridge. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a plant growing out of the top of the concrete railing near the center of the bridge. My brain automatically identified it as goldthorn and for a spit second I found myself deciding whether or not it was worth my time to stop and gather it.

That definitely felt strange. I wasn’t sure whether I should be amused or worried. I guess I shouldn’t worry unless I actually do stop and gather it. But it still felt very weird.

Thankfully I'm not quite to that stage yet.

I'm at the dream stage. I've had 3 WoW dreams and 2 dreams that involved my guildies hanging out in real life.

If I ever stop to try to pick a WoW herb IRL, I'm taking a vacation.

rofl! yeah i have had weird moments like that too. after playing for ten hours straight and then going out to target i started eyeing people and trying to determine if i was in friendly territory or not. i finally left in a daze and decided that i needed to go home and take a nap.

Did you have those little swirly dots above your head as you staggered away? I hate when gray-con shoppers tag me as I'm running by.

a friend and I were talking the other day and he was trying to tell me he was changing jobs because they had been firing alot of people lately and he was worried that the company was in trouble. what he said was "I'm thinking they are in trouble. they have been deleting alot of characters lately." we had a good laugh over that.

not from WoW but in SWG where the waypoints were a shaft of lite, I would often find myself wishing for a waypoint when I was driving along trying to find something like an address.

The other day i was talking to my teacher in class and hit my del key while talking to him. To much vent FTL on raiding.

I sit at my PC pretty much all day, even if I'm not playing WoW. Often when I'm on the phone I'll try to hit the push to talk button when I want to say something. Sad really.

i'm with mazra. real life is the game equivilant of E.T. if you haven't played that game before do yourself a favor and shoot yourself in the face instead.

maybe i should be worried. right now i'm sitting in a lounge at school... Since i got out of class i've been thinking WoW. Dreams are starting to occur too frequently.. . /parnoid

And how many of us use IMs (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc), and put r or /g in front of their replies?
Most of my friends have gotten used to 'rHey, what's up?' and '/g Man, it's a long day at work. I wish it was a weekend!'

My moment includes seeing sweet cinnamon rolls in the break room at work and one dreary eyed morning seeing them and saying to myself, "man, who's the lucky mage who conjured those? I haven't been able to get that drop yet!" Then I start looking around wondering what others would think if they knew what just went through my head. Hehe....

They just don't know what they're missing...

aint that the truth brotha


It gets really bad when you see a neighborhood dog and you wonder if it has any good drops. XD

Screenshot or it didn't happen! :-D


I find myself doing the same thing sometimes. Rather amusing.

Way back in the day, I used to play MUDs a lot (the family PC couldn't handle any good games then), and you'd have to put things like /ooc for "on open channel" or /y or /w, and I'd find myself putting /w in front of ICQ messages... rather embarrassing when I did it to a friend who didn't play, and I had to explain it... ;)