Every single Tempo or Topaz when driving down the road.
You wave at fellow TT drivers and they look at you like you're an idiot.
You always have people confuse your engine with a 2.3L Turbo Charged Lima.
Riceboys look at you like you're nuts when you roll up next to them and rev at them at a light.
Riceboys look at you like you're God when you fly past them.
You drool over how sexy hood scoops look on a TT.
Every time you see your TT, you stop and admire it. (10 times a day)
You kill your friend because he makes fun of your TT.
You notice (and silently cheer for) TT's in movies and TV shows.
When you notice one cruising down the highway and stare at it, deciding if you like that color on it.
Your friends think you're crazy when you don't think twice about dumping $3000 into a car worth $1250.
You hate it when your friends just call it just a Tempo(Topaz).
You want to slap the guy that says "you got all these options, why didn't you spring for the automatic?"
Every time it breaks you curse and swear up and down that you're going to sell the piece of junk, when you get it running again, you think how much you couldn't live without it!
You use the words Quaife and LSD in a serious tone and not something naughty.
You have dreams about your car at night.
You get bored sitting at your desk so you open up Photoshop and add ugly (or cool) appearance mods to your car.
You spend a couple hours a day browsing the TTCCNA.
You cruise parking lots looking for other TT's.
You have Tempo(Topaz) dealer posters in your bedroom.
You have all your time slips archived in Excel on your computer.
You spend all day out detailing your car but hate to spend 15 minutes doing laundry.
In the middle of different exhaust experimentations, you realize you have the loudest car on the block.
You get pissed off when you catch up to a fellow TT, only to find someone 65+ driving.
(for base TT's) You are jealous of friends 85 Camry cause it has a tachometer.
While all your buddies are out in their lowered '02 Eclipses and big-block Barracudas, you're waxing your four-door!
You realize how big your backseat really is!!
You'll speed excessively to catch up to one that's been modded without thinking about cops
Riceboys give you the WTF! jaw drop look when you waste them when you have three friends weighing down your slow four door
Riceboys give that look when you waste them REALLY bad at the strip when they gutted they're car out just to run 16's
You TRY to find a ricer just to have a good laugh.
Your car doesn't get any attention unless you are laying rubber.
You get sick of seeing a TT in front of you, and a TT behind you at every light.
You sometimes feel like you're in a TT convoy.
You see a TT and hope he or she just *happens* to be an enthusiast too and try to get him or her to make a run on you for the fun of it
You see any other performance car on the road and try to give it a run for its money... even when the driver isn't trying.
You point out other TT's to friends/relatives as you drive by and non-chalantly announce its generation, guess at its year
and engine size/type, and possibly rattle off some statistics... which usually includes whether not you could hand the owner his ass in your TT...You constantly think about ways to make your car faster using $20 and parts from the hardware store.
There are absolutely NO aftermarket/performance parts available! (yet, hehe).
Your car "blue Books at $2,000 but you can't even sell it for $750.
You go on a road trip and count all the TT's you see/pass on the highway.
You wonder if any of those people you see with an obviously modded Tempo/Topaz ever frequents the forums.
You have a framed picture of your TT on your computer desk
You drove a million miles and back to attend the TT Convention.
As boredom strikes on a day off work, you go outside and stare at your engine bay and try to think of something cheap you can do to your car that day.
While tinkering around in there, you accidentally break something but have no idea what it is, so you jump on the forums and post a HELP, QUICK! topic.
Some other Tempo(topaz)-obsessed person browsing the forums at the same time gets back to you in less than 5 minutes.
You e-mail performance parts makers and ask them if their parts can be adapted to fit your 2.3L. They say yes, and then say you are crazy.
The local Ford Performance Shop owner tells you in PRECISE detail how he would rip the engine apart and have it producing 350+ hp at the wheels if given enough time to play with it.
Your girlfriend/wife/significant other can now point out TT's, and when they see one they think they actually saw it before you noticed
You spend countless hours on ebay looking for parts that you wanna buy but never will or just for TT parts in general
Your friends know you're home 'cause the hoods up on the GLS in the driveway.
When your mom (Who makes fun of your Tempo(Topaz)'s) calls and says I saw a pretty red Gen II GLS today!
When you got all your friends, co- workers, and roommates to buy GLS's/ XR5's/LTS's.
When you cry for your former TT that you sold to a friend and gets totalled, and then have a dream about it.
When your wife/girlfriend worry you are having an affair with your TT.
Your eldest comes home and says he might have ridden in a Grand Am that could finally give your GLS a run for it's money.
Teenage daughter brags how she can smoke her friends Civic.
Your children don't want to leave home for fear they may never drive the GLS again.
You see a chiropractor because your always trying to turn your head all the way around to confirm it was a GLS that went by the other way on the expressway.
You go to the quick lube place even though you can rebuild your engine in your driveway over the weekend just to watch the pit clearing reactions when they pop the hood.
You usually cruise with the windows down and the radio off just to listen to the exhaust note even when you have 12,000 watts and four 12in the backseat.
You can't go to work until you check all the Forums
You can't go to bed until you check all the Forums
You pass up family functions so you can install and try out a new set of plugs.
You always find yourself saying jump in my car, I've got room
When everyone jumps in the car, you show it off, because it isn't just an ordinary Tempo(Topaz).
You love the sound on your induction system.
Your New Years resolution is to spend less time in the forums, but in actual reality, you'll be in them twice as much.
Your family asks what you want for Christmas and you point them to the TTCCNA online store.
When you get excited about a You know you're a TT owner when... list.