You Know You Are A Rower When...

• you don't mind walking in frozen bird poo barefoot

• everything you do is "in 2.."

• you need to have a small pushy person around telling you what to do all the time

• you can get up, get dressed and leave before your eyes are fully open

• the phrase "cox box" doesn't make you giggle

• you believe the world wouldn't exist without spandex

• you only recognise your friends from behind

• when you need to go anywhere, you have a sudden urge to throw your car over your shoulder

• before you go anywhere, you are at Main 20 minutes early

• you stick water bottles in your shorts for no reason at all

• you feel naked without enough clothing for 10 people on

• you believe all authority figures carry a megaphone

• you sit in class leaning to your rigger

• half your body is bigger than the other

• you blame bad moods on "the balance"

• your friends need a rowing translater to decipher your language

• you can wear the same thing every morning for a week and not think twice

• you think sleeping late is waking up at 8.30

• when you sit down in class, you look for the tie in shoes

• you constantly check the tightness of nuts in chairs, handrails, door handles etc

• you bring up the beauty of dawn, and people give you blank stares

• your vision of going away for the weekend is other people's vision of hell

• overhearing people talk about how little sleep they get causes you to smirk

• you're giving directions to a friend and you say "turn to bow"

• you dress and undress one handed so you don't have to take one hand off the oar

• everytime you sit in a chair you are mildly surprised to discover it doesn't slide back and forth