When you work a 14 hour shift at Busch Gardens and then come home to catch up on KIC for three hours. I have to drive back to Ohio tomorrow, too.

If you are in Mason for your wife's birthday dinner and all you can think about is how close you are to KI.

Me right now :/

If you see a ball of string and you think of Flight of Fear.

^Or a bowl of spaghetti?

The dentist tilts your chair back and you think you're on Firehawk.

When you're bored you just imagine yourself on a rollercoaster mocking the movements and everything..

Then you're friends look at you like a loser..

I don't know how many can relate to this, but you drive a truck ball joint out with one blow and think the bell should have rung.

If you read this topic backwards and suddenly take notice your reading comments from 2005, you might be an addict.

You might be a KI addict if you go to the restroom at a baseball game and wish you had a Fastlane pass.

if you think b&M coasters are the best in the industry...

If you've ever tried to do impressions of classic ride voice recordings, you might be a Kings Island addict.

Don't even try to tell me you haven't tried "now youuu will paaaay".

If you arrive at the park at 6:30 A.M. to get a good parking spot.

^ Oh that is bad.... Haha

You look forward to having a Gold Pass next year so you can get most of your Banshee riding done during ERT.

You find yourself inadvertently yelling at guests to walk even though you don't work there.

You know that the quickest route from I-Street to Coney does not involve going through Oktoberfest (hint: path to the right of Scrambler)

You look forward to having a Gold Pass next year so you can get most of your Banshee riding done during ERT.

You find yourself inadvertently yelling at guests to walk even though you don't work there.

You know that the quickest route from I-Street to Coney does not involve going through Oktoberfest (hint: path to the right of Scrambler)

I can go ahead and say 2 of these three are ones I was going to say haha.

You pick up paper and trash in parks, even though that hasn't been your job in more than 35 years.

Line jumpers feel your wrath in every queue line immaginable

You can call the workers by their nickname.

When you live right next to the Mason-Montgomery Kroger, but go out of your way to the Kings Mills Kroger just to take in the views of the park (Tylersville approach or 741 approach, depending on the mood).

If you are volunteering at a festival, see someone smoking in the midway and almost walk up to them and tell them that they can't smoke there.

If you are half asleep thinking about dispatching a train and you put your thumb up and say "clear!"

When you check to see if your car door is locked when you are walking away from your car( if you are with another KI addict) you say "and that all clear means you're outta here" hahaha

You know you are a KI addict when people automatically come to you to ask where restrooms are, were to buy food or souveniers and where rides are located.....(true story)

I've done the all clear you're outta here thing before.... A few times.. Not for locking the car, but when I'm buckling in my seatbelt.

And I, from a different era, think "Dispatch!"

You pick up paper and trash in parks, even though that hasn't been your job in more than 35 years.

Surely there are better keepsakes you could find at KI other than that Terpy.

Might I suggest the many great shops on International Street, or try your luck at winning a prize at one of the midway games in Coney Mall.

When you have people you haven't talked to or seen since 8th grade text you randomly saying "Hey I'm going to Cedar Point (or KI) tomorrow, what advice do you have for me?"

This has happened to me three times this year with three people I didn't even know they knew I existed!

You might be a KI addict if you automatically assumed that the new Son of Baconator would be bigger than the regular Baconator.

You might be a KI addict if you automatically assumed that the new Son of Baconator would be bigger than the regular Baconator.

Calling SonofBaconator...

.. If you pretend your hand is a train on a roller coaster as if it were a trackless roller coaster going through loops and hills from the height, that you can possibly reach up, to the bottom of the floor.

You are still disappointed that you didn't get to ride everything even though you're visiting the park about once a week and have a gold pass.