Signs that you have been playing Oblivion for too long

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17. you pick all the flowers in your wife's garden, make cheap "potions," and try to sell them to the local pharmacy
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11%
18. You wander into people's houses while they're eating dinner, and ask them about their hometown.
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22%
53. You become endlessly frustrated when your sword and clothes won't fit in your g/f's jewelry box... despite repeated attempts.
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11%
54. You see a child and you shout "BY THE NINE DIVINES!"
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22%
81. You wonder why people hesitate to sleep when you stand right next to their bed (maybe with a sword out)
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17%
84. You think Hot Topic is the local Vampire nest. Once again, the local authorities are not amused by your heroics.
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17%
 
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1. you hear a ringing noise in the garden section of Wal-Mart and shout 'Nirnroot!!!'

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2. When you hear anything similar to the battle music and you see your dad coming you're like "I'm f**ked now"
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3. you repeatedly pickpocket all of your friends to raise your sneak skill.
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4.You run constantly into a wall and when your mom comes in and asks what your doing you say "I'm just training my athletics mom"
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5. You see the persuasion mini-game when you talk to people :lol:
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6. When you get tired you start to eat cheese in order to restore your fatigue.
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7. you kill all your friends that look like the adoring fan
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8. The teacher asks you what Mt. Everest looks like and you give an exact discription of Dive Rock, including the Uderfrykte Matron
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9. You carry something silver every where you go in case of ghost
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Lord Sheogorath wrote:8. You carry something silver every where you go in case of ghost
(I carry daedric :D )

10. You forgot what court is
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11. You say cheese way too much :lol:
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12. You give random people money to like you
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13. In conversations, you ask people what news they've heard from the other provinces.

(Ok, so that wouldn't be as funny in, say, Canada, but it would be here in the U.S. :lol:)
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14. If you wake people up at 2:00 in the morning to ask about rumors
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15 you enter an eating contest to try and improve your alchemy
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16 you get frustrated because you don't have your starting fire spell.
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17. you pick all the flowers in your wife's garden, make cheap "potions," and try to sell them to the local pharmacy.
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18. You wander into people's houses while they're eating dinner, and ask them about their hometown.
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19. You get arrested for having a meth lab in your basement and the police won't believe that you were just trying to level your alchemy skill.
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20. You got arrested and you tell the police they forgot to let you keep 1 lockpick.
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21. you speed on the way to work; after all, if you get caught, you can just load an earlier save
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22 You save up 2000 dollars so you can kill someone you don't like then pay the court a fine.
"...well I'm sick and tired of it, tired and sick...and perhaps a little drunk."

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23. You kill them, then get angry when a dark figure doesn't visit you in your sleep to initiate you into the brotherhood
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24. you gat mad because theres no enchanment chamber in the library
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25. You start switching beds in the middle of the night at random.
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