Just for Fun - Totally Random

You Might Be a Geologist If ... (this is the modified, less "salty" version)


15. You have ever had to respond "yes" to the question, "What have you got in here, rocks?"

14. You consider a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years

13. You have ever found yourself trying to explain to airport security that a rock hammer isn't really a weapon

12. the baggage handlers at the airport know you by name and refuse to help with your luggage.

11.you can pronounce the word "molybdenite" correctly on the first try.

10.your rock garden is located inside your house

9.Your rock collection weighs more than you do.

8.You own more pieces of quartz than underwear.

7. You will walk across eight lanes of freeway traffic to see if the outcrop on the other side of the highway is the same type of rock as the side you're parked on.

6.You're planning on using a pick and shovel while you're on vacation.

5. You find yourself compelled to examine individual rocks in driveway gravel.

4. You think the primary function of road cuts is tourist attractions.

3.You have ever taken a 12-passenger van/ mini vans over "roads" that were really intended only for cattle.

2.You have ever been on a field trip that included scheduled stops at a Quarries and/or being dropped off 50 miles from civilization by yourself for the day.

1.And the #1 sign you might be a geologist: If being able to identify and classify cleavage is an important skill. (If you do not get this-you are not and never have been a geologist!)