Symptoms of ParrotHeaditis

  • Obsessed with the perfect Buffett license plate.

  • Buying anything with a parrot on it.

  • Calling radio stations, trying to get them to play Buffett, when you have the entire discography right in front of you.

  • Putting salt around the rim of all your glassware.

  • Violent reaction to cold weather.

  • A reoccurring dream that you find your 'lost shaker of salt'.

  • The inability to function without hearing at least one Jimmy Buffett song per day.

  • The constant paranoia that a concert day will be announced near you, and you won't hear about it.

  • Being labeled as 'a crazy fanatic' or 'obsessed' by your friends and family of the non-Parrothead persuasion.

  • The constant search for a beach.

  • When pressured or stressed, you calm yourself with the following JB lyric - "It was never meant to last"

  • The need to wear elaborate hats and strange Caribbean costumes.

  • Shoes, you don't need no stinking shoes.

  • You can remember anything Bubba sings, but not your anniversary.

  • You are more concerned about Bubba being shot at in Jamaica, than any other current events.

  • One Word "SHARKS".

  • You daydream about The Sun, The Sea and Jimmy and Me.

  • No matter how many years pass by, you're still as young as you can be.

  • You develop a Jamaican accent and now speak "Spanglish"

  • Your answering machine plays the part from "This Hotel" (I ain't home, I ain't home. Won't you kindly leave a message, `cause I ain't home.)

  • You just love the NOW.

  • You become "solar powered", and find it hard to move if the suns not out.

  • You realize that a bad day on the water is better than a good day at work.

  • You're in the military and you wear your OFFICIAL Air Margaritaville wings on your Dress uniform.

  • The overwhelming need for a Parrot tattoo!!!(or a Mexican Beauty!)

  • You have a different Caribbean Soul shirt for every day of the week.

  • You always use the pick-up line, "Why don't we get drunk and screw".

  • Your waterbed is filled with Elmer's glue.

  • You put a cardboard shark fin on everything in the house, including your pets.

  • You always looking forward to Monday, even on Saturday.

  • Your diet consists of Margaritas, Corona, Cheeseburgers, and fries.

  • At age 40, you have a sudden urge to adorn a peg leg and an eye patch.

  • You have enlisted your son and grandson (who aren't even born yet) into the Navy, so he can be a Son of a Son of a Sailor.

  • Your X-mas tree is a Palm tree that you had flown in from the south.

  • You have urges to roller-skate naked through a crosswalk.

  • Your co-workers are getting annoyed at the tropical wear on casual Fridays.

  • You end every e-mail message with a Buffett lyric.

  • You buy three copies of everything Jimmy does (home, office, glove compartment).

  • Your on-line bill to the #Buffett IRC is higher than your mortgage.

  • Your wife announces she is finally pregnant after years of fertility treatment and you say "Oh, no you can't be due then! That's the week of the Buffett concert !"

  • Your husband says" I can't stand any more Buffett albums. It's either him or me!." Gosh I'm gonna miss the old Hub!

  • You leave Mr. Rich and Handsome for Mr. Poor and Homely, cause Rich doesn't like Buffett and Poor does.

  • You start planning vacations around where Jimmy will be instead of seeing your poor sick grandmother.

  • You've replaced the old Star Trek screen saver and phaser sounds with a Buffett screen saver and "mail boat's in", for your email.

  • You buy a Discman so you can "follow in his wake" at work, when it gets to be too much.