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HOW TO RECOGNIZE A BMX PARENT
-When you stand for the National Anthem
and you place one hand over your heart and the other over your wallet.
-You have an e-mail reply from the President of the ABA framed and
hanging on your wall.
-You have a collection of race flyers from various tracks from the past
20 years and spend
your spare time organizing them.
- Someone in your neighborhood asks you how old your child is and you
reply "13X"
- You automatically load up your bike and you're only going to the corner
store.
- You fall asleep at the wheel of your car and end up at the track
instead of your home.
- You are late for work but never late for sign-ups.
- Your kids' bikes are insured for more than your car.
- You developed a craving for Astro Pops & Pixie Stix.
- You pay someone to write a program to keep track of race points.
- You buy an expensive laptop to record the points on.
- You throw out the spare tire to make room for bike parts.
- Your kid's birthday cake has a miniature BMX track on it and all the
gifts are BMX parts.
- You can't decide whether to go to your sister's wedding or to a DOUBLE
POINT race.
- A Sunday drive in the country means going to a race out of town.
- The first item on your monthly budget is entry fees and not the
mortgage payment.
- The only clean clothes in the house are a pair of leathers and a
jersey.
- The telephone bill has at least 3 calls to the ABA office.
- Your internet home-page is set to www.ABABMX.com
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- The stop light turns green and you try for the hole-shot.
- Someone mentions a table-top and you look for a pile of dirt.
- You can't remember birth dates of your family, but know every birth
date of each kid in your kid's CLASS.
- You start a BMX business so you can take a tax deduction.
- No one understands what you are saying except another BMX parent.
- You're upset at the price of a hamburger but not by the price of a Ti
bottom bracket.
- Your kid's bike is color coordinated but your living room is not.
- Your Thanksgiving Turkey dinner is Top-Ramen in Tulsa.
- You're on a first name basis with all the track help.
- Someone asks the latest book you've read and your only answer is the
BMXer.
- You can't visit your family on the holidays because you used up all
your vacation and sick days to go to the Nationals.
- You can't get up at 6:00 A.M. to get to work but you're up at dawn to
make it to the Gold-Cup Qualifier.
- You quit helping school events to do raffles for the Team.
- You realize that you haven't seen a NFL football game in years.
- Your car needs a tune-up and oil change but the bike is Spotless. |
