15 SIGNS THAT YOU MIGHT BE A ROCKHOUND
1. You send your family on ahead into MacDonalds so you can check out the rocks in the flower beds.
2. You think road cuts are built as tourist attractions
3. You describe your vacations by the rocks you brought home.
4. You find rocks when you empty your pockets at night.
5. The bookshelves in your home hold more rocks than books; and most of the books are about rocks.
6 .You are tempted to stop at every construction site to check out the rock piles.
7. You know the location of every rock shop within a 100-mile radius of your home.
8. You think you KNOW how to pronounce "chalcedony."
9. You examine individual rocks in the neighbor's driveway gravel.
10. Your phone has snapshots of your favorite fossils, rocks, or crystals.
11. You plan for the annual rock & mineral fair like others plan for Christmas.
12. Museums are boring without a large rock, mineral, crystal and fossil collection.
13. You associate the word "saw" with rocks instead of wood.
14. You ask complete strangers about the stones in their jewelry.
AND FINALLY:
15.You've licked a rock to see what it would look like polished!
For other rock hounds and jewelry makers in the SE MO area