you can say "i'm a true reenactor!" when...

..you've been chased by an old teacher who wants you for a school session of "show and tell"

..sleeping in open air with insects and assorted pests is your ideal weekend;

..you can identify a war company from burps and farts, and even tell if they're friends or foes;

..you can't sing until you've a horn of beer in the hand;

..you've spent more than 500 dollars for a dress who went outdated about 600 years ago;

..you've frequently teased your work team saying "geez, cool, it's only 68 days until the battle of...";

..you never clean up your sword, it is covered by one pound of rust but you'll get mad if a child touches it because "finger grease damages the steel";

..you've slept more than a once over reversed sacs of coffee;

..you boss uses to comment your asks for a free day with the phrase "oh, that medieval stuff again..";

..your neighbors's dog yell in pain for the high pitch sound you make every time you use the sanding machine on your breastplate;

..you've a 5ft columns of things such as candles, rotting herbs, bags, caskets, old knives at the door's side because "i'm used to forgot them";

..you're glad to run 400 miles for sleeping in a tent. 25 per tent, and on the soil;

..you get sexually excited whenever someone says "more than 500 years ago";

..you see a gorgeous girl in a microscopic bikini and you figure out how she will look like in peplum;

..you named your dane axe and sleep with;

..you weared armor at home just to check at the mirror how it looks like;

..you've had a 2 hours long laugh watching at "the first knight" movie;

..you remember every single line of Conan the destroyer, Gladiator, Braveheart and Spaceballs;

..you wear wool cloths when it's 35°C out there;

..you've removed sand, dirt, thicks, grass and mud from your face;

..your house is in bad need of repairs, you're short of money but still you're bladding something about buying a dépendance for your medieval tent to stuff all the goods in;

..your living room wall is decorated by a rusty, half finished hauberk because "you're working on it" since 1995;

..no one wants to see a history related movie with you;

..your 20000 dollars new car is parked on the road because your 200 dollars medieval tent is drying out in the garage after a rainy fair;

..your 12th century shoes are more expensive than your 21th century ones;

..your children are perfectly able to correct their history teachers during lessons;

..your freezer is full of candles because "so they do last longer";

..your wardrobe is occupied for a neat 80% by your medieval dresses, most of them unused because "they are not historically correct";

..during the week, you get mad because air conditioning is not working properly, water machine doesn't cool drinks and PCs vents heat up the room; then, on weekend, you'll put on a padded jacket, 20 kilos of metal gear, you fight with your friends under a freaky sun and finally you sit down happily, relaxing by the campfire;

..finally, you can tell you're a true reenactor if somebody ever asked you "do you really die during the fight?"