10.) On more than one occasion you sneak out of bed at night to check your email to see if someone has found your newest cache.

9.) You've begun ranking your children's school possibilities based first on academic rankings, second on cache groupings and third on your child's opinion of the school.

8.) While you won't get up early on the weekend to do work around the house, you will rise before dawn to organize your day of caching AFTER you've finished the work around the house.

7.) When you meet people on the trail, you know them only by their moniker and call them such the rest of the day.

6.) You eat peanut butter for the cans despite being deathly allergic and having to endure significant rounds of shots after each sitting.

5.) On more that one occasion a police or security officer has approached you and you've used your GPSr like a cell phone to avoid a conversation.

4.) While you can't remember to pay the water bill or send your wife an anniversary card, you've committed to memory every trail within 30 miles of your home.

3.) You lie and tell your wife the road trip you're about to take is about two hours longer than it really is to account for your suspicious "Oh look, we just happen to have pulled off at an exit with a few caches right nearby" routine.

2.) You know how useful a "water bladder" can be in warm weather and further know if OK to drink out of it.

1.) You're reading this ONLY because your wife will hear the car start this late at night and you've done all the caches within walking distance.