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'''You Know You're in the [[SCA]] When''', usually abbreviated as '''YKYITSCA''' (with slight variations), is a humerous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme meme] exploring the funny side of life in the [[Society]]. Especially those times when your SCA life dribbles over into your modern life...

The classic YKYITSCA example is when you go back to work after an intense weekend of SCA life and you curtsy to your boss or call your co-workers "Milord" or "Milady".

:''For [[fighter]]s the equivalent is usually '''No shit, there I was...''' stories.''

==Examples==
(Sequence collected from the [[Steps of the Cathedral]], Aug 2006.)

You know you have been playing too long when you hear a loud metal
clanging sound when someone is walking past and you expect them to be
in armor. You know you have been playing TOO long when this happens at
work and it is the tools on a construction workers belt!

Miranda

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You know you have been playing too long when the first place you go looking for a roll of duct tape is your event bins and not where it's "supposed" to be (with the household tools).

Kate the Candlemaker

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You know you're in the SCA when your 10 yr old daughter comes
out of  merchants row hugging a sword and chortling with glee

Cerridwen

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You take a class at a SF con on 'stage sword fighting' and you find yourself 
comparing the instructor's fighting styles and weapons with SCA fighting 
styles and weapons and it turns out he was one of the principals who 
'fought' with Adrian Paul on "Highlander" [among other things].

Talk about conjoining worlds...

Rowan


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You Know You've Been In The SCA Too Long When (From A Soldier's Perspective): 

You bow to your Commanding Officer. (If he's really cool, he'll bow back...)

When the Battalion Sergeant Major inspects your barracks room and sees your armor, he recalls being issued the same thing out of Basic Training...

You plan your leave around Estrella War... May War, September War, Highland War, etc....

You're deploying to Iraq and you pack a Crusader's surcoat... Just in case...

You're undefeated at pugil sticks...

You've blazoned the emblems of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and you're still trying to figure out how to get some version of the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor past the Heralds...

William Hawkes



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