You may be addicted to Fossil Collecting if….

* You don't understand the danger in asking your wife if you can display your fossils in her new china cabinet.

* You also don't understand the consequences of sieving the sediment you collected in the kitchen sink, and using the flour sieve.

* Further you are oblivious to the hygiene consideration of drying that sediment in the oven, especially if dissolved in paraffin!

* When things go wrong glueing a fossil with super-glue and faced with the choice of saving either the fossil or the sink. You choose the fossil.

* You can remember the age of every fossil in your collection, but can't remember your anniversary.

* You remember the dates of all fieldtrips but forget family birthdays.

* You try to persuade your wife that a holiday on the Isle of Wight in April would be far more enjoyable than 2 weeks in Greece in July.

* You spend half a day frantically looking for the 2mm, microfossil you dropped on the carpet

* Your Christmas Eve activities include making all your family watch ALL FOUR HOURS of Walking with Dinosaurs.

* Your Christmas Day activities include a trip to collect sharks teeth because the tide is right.

* You KNOWINGLY purchased a fossil with the money you saved for your wife's Christmas present

 * Santa filled your stocking with nothing less than 1,000,000 years old

By Gary Woodall

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