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You Might Be an Irish Dancer, if…
501 - 600
501. Your track coach yells at you not to dance over the hurdles. Christie.
502. You’ve left permanent scuff marks on the linoleum floor in the kitchen and your excuse is "Mom! It’s the only hard surface in the house!" Christie.
503. You don’t feel comfortable in a social situation unless your socks are pulled half-way up your shins. Christie.
504. You’ve amazed a few beach-goers by doing an entire reel in the surf. Christie.
505. People (at the mall, at school, etc.) stare at you because you count to seven out loud and then start over again, sometimes adding in a skip or switch-point. Christie.
506. "Cutting" doesn’t mean getting in front of someone else in the lunch line. Christie.
507. Dance-again.com (or any other irish dance website) is set as your homepage. Sophie.
508. Your goal for the year is Irish dance-related (and you're not even a goal-making person!) Sophie.
509. A school day doesn’t seem so insurmountable when dance class is after it- the light at the end of the tunnel! Sophie.
510. You have had to explain gently on a number of occasions to friends with birthday parties that clash with dance that, of course, they're very important to you, and that dance is by no means a rival to your friendship... it’s just that dance class has been a commitment from day one of the year! Sophie.
511. You’ve stopped hanging about the postbox for letters- it’s all about Irish Dancing Magazine now! Sophie.
512. You always look forward to a new month- finally a new IDM! Last month’s issue had been read and re-read so many times it looks like it it was delivered years ago. Sophie.
513. You bought (or want) a pair of those white soft shoes just to wear about the house. Sophie.
514. If there was a fire in your house, your main aim would be to save your shoes, wig and dress - forget the cat! (Lol, just kidding!) Sophie.
515. You often tell people about how you have to wear a wig (sometimes without explaining the irish dancing context!) just to watch their horror/confusion. Sophie.
516. Irish dancing dominates your life- the way you like it. Sophie.
517. The prospect of never having discovered Irish dancing, or ever having to give it up, makes you shudder, (and contemplate how you could continue living, in the second case!) Sophie.
518. You'll be somewhere, and then suddenly come to the realization that you’ve been doing you reel without knowing- and you're halfway through your 2nd step! Sophie.
519. You love the smell of your soft and hard shoes...mmm...leather. (Even other Irish dancers think I’m weird with this one! Lol). Sophie.
520. You can’t stand extended holiday breaks- the lack of dance classes, displays, etc., is very hard to bear! Sophie.
521. You can reel off all the synonyms for various dance-related terms- moves, shoes- even ones from other countries. For example: soft shoes (ghillies, pumps, etc.) Sophie.
522. You plan to enrol your future children in dance lessons - and you're only in your mid-teens. Sophie.
523. Your favourite cd is an Irish dance one, and when you bought it you made 5 copies of it just to make sure it'd never, ever be destroyed by over playing, etc., and so you could have one in every possible place. Sophie.
524. You think the word 'oireachtas' is a fantastic word, and so is the ingenius way someone devised of spelling it correctly (Oh-I-REACH-To-A-Star). Very cool. Sophie.
525. You could only identify one or two things in the whole 5 pages of 'YMBAIDI' that didn’t apply to you. Sophie.
526. 'YMBAIDI' is an acronym that does not require even a second’s thought to what it means. Sophie.
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527. When people are shocked to hear that you actually glue your socks to your legs, you immediately whip out your sock glue and offer to demonstrate on their own socks, t-shirt sleeves, etc.
528. You cringe whenever someone sees you dance, and then says: "Hey! Riverdancing!" (Or they'll simply call it "the Jig." Reel, slip jig, hornpipe, whatever - it’s all "Jig.")
528. Your dad and your younger brother know how to properly remove a foam curler from your hair.
529. Your friends marvel at the rocks done in Riverdance, and you simply smile and demonstrate.
530. You know the names of all the libraries in your area that have the "Celtic Feet" video.
531. You have ever done a report for school on Jean Butler.
532. You’ve ever won dodgeball by dancing. Austin
533. You pretend that your “Treble Fest” (Female Choir Workshop) T-Shirt is an Irish T-Shirt and you tell your friends at dance it is. Mal
- 534. The phrase "dance pants" has become an enormous inside joke between you and your friends, and its mere mention sends you into fits of laughter. Colin
- 535. You also know "dance pants" in sign language. It has the same effect. Colin
- 536. Your relatives deliberately mispronounce the word "Celtic" around you just because they know it bugs you. Colin
- 537. You're involved in a musical production, and you constantly point out to everyone within hearing range which parts of the choreography reference Irish dance. Colin
- 538. You have spent hours, to the severe detriment of other obligations, on YouTube searching for Irish dance videos, and you get really, really excited when you find one that doesn't showcase some dude jumping around in imitation of Michael Flatley. Colin
- 539. You watch those other videos anyway, just so you can get all indignant and self-righteous. Colin
- 540. You have made one or more family member or friend watch one of the good videos, while you thoughtfully critique a dancer’s turnout or excitedly point at the screen and exclaim, "Look at those leaps! LOOK at those LEAPS!" Colin
- 541. You’ve had a dream about shopping for hardshoes at Toys 'R' Us (I...don’t know), even though you already own a perfectly good pair. Colin
- 542. Before, during, and after dance class, your IM away messages invariably read something like "stomp one click down and heel and stomp" or "why, treble jig, WHY?" Colin
- 543. You’ve ever had a weekend that went like this: dance class, dinner with friends from dance, dance practice, sleepover with friends from dance, breakfast with friends from dance, dance class. Lather, rinse, repeat. Colin
- 544. You're wary of practicing at school before class, because you know someone on the floor below you WILL hear--someone who WILL come upstairs and yell at you. Colin
- 545. It totally makes your day when you tell someone that you're an Irish dancer and they express genuine interest rather than being all "Oh, right, Riverdance. Whatever." Colin
- 546. Your Halloween costume for the past five years has been some variation of "Irish dancer." (This year your theme is the 80s.) Colin
- 547. You think the Disney Channel should totally make a teen-drama movie about feiseanna (and get real Irish dancers this time, because "Luck of the Irish?" Ew.) Colin
- 548. You bring non-dance friends to dance class, reassuring them, "Oh, it’s okay, you won’t have to dance." Your dance teacher promptly snags them and teaches them the Walls of Limerick. Colin
- 549. You’ve caught yourself dancing in a clothing store changing room, especially when shopping for athletic wear. Colin
- 550. You find that all you really want to talk about is Irish dance, but you don’t want to bore your normal friends, so you pretend all week to be interested in their latest gossip. When you finally get to dance class, all that pent-up obsession comes rushing out: "Hi omigosh have you seen Dancing on Dangerous Ground I just bought it and watched it this week and it is SO awesome and hey remember that girl from the feis with that really bizarro dress yeah well I definitely saw her at Starbucks on Tuesday and oh by the way I made up a new step do you wanna see?" Colin
- 551. You made a t-shirt that said IRISH STEP DANCER in huge letters just to see who would notice. You love those “WOW” looks you get from other girls! Queen Of The Ceili
- You actually considered wearing your solo dress to your high-school prom – and making your boyfriend a matching tie, complete with feathers, glitter, sequins… Queen Of The Ceili