You Know You're in Trouble When...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Confucius

1. You follow The Hubba's insane suggestion to spend a weekend with people you've never met and you have a brilliant time. The visit to Charleston went great. There was an initial fifteen minutes, on both sides, of thinking "what in the $%!* have we done?" that fell away, I think, after they settled their son in with the baby-sitter, we climbed into their car, and Dave, the husband said, "Want to listen to some Dave?" and Renee, the wife asked, "Who's ready for a drink?"

2. Their adorable two-year-old son picks you out as Non-Parentals, who are total saps for people under three feet tall that say things like "Oh BOY!" and "OK, sure," in a cute, gooey kid voice. We were doing his bidding and dancing to his every whim within minutes of arrival.

3. The final decision to buy a new handbag is made when your NON-knitter friend says "It would be the perfect length for a pair of knitting needles!"



4. When you feel The Crazies coming on, after a perfectly great day that didn't happen to include knitting, you ward them off by breathing deeply, sitting still, and intoning, over and over to yourself, "I can knit tomorrow. I can knit tomorrow. I can knit tomorrow."

5. You realize you will never get a "Welcome Home!" from any person as good as you get from these guys:



I have the scratches to prove it.