You know you're a Springsteen fan if....Part 13

[Annie415]

You know you're a Bruce fan if…

276. you're jealous that your boyfriend is having dreams about you meeting Bruce and he isn't even a fan!
277. you ever picked a hitchhiker and she hung her head out the window and she screamed!
278. you've been pikachu-ized!
279. you've ever been discombobulated!
280. you've ever had just one thing, one thing in your whole life, that makes you feel good about yourself (Racing -11/19/84)
281. you know what all the guys on Bruce's block called her . . .
282. you know the difference between oil and blood . . .
283. you knew or just wondered what that dude was saying when he hit that storm . .
284. you ever worked all day at your Daddy's garage . . .
285. you think Rich Kortz's should win a prize for "best comedian of the year"
286. you can tell just from the way he shouts 1, 2, 3, 4, what song is coming
287. you are at a show, you can tell exactly when Bruce is about to start jumping up and down like a pogo during Lohad
288. you know what Lohad is
289. you can't decide whether you like the 2/5/75, 3/25/77 or the 12/29/80 versions of Incident on 57th Street best.
201. you know one of the Cleveland Boys Next Generation - Hey '''' Erdman!
291. you despise gaps on CDRs
292. you put great thought into which Bruceleg to put in your walkman for the next few days...decisions, decisions...
293. you still believe in the PROMISED LAND
294. for you a worst case scenario is not getting Bruce tickets
295. you have stood on Randolph Street and visited St. Rose of Lima just because you happened to be driving near the great state of New Jersey
296. most of the people in your email address book are people with names like kitty, rosie, eddie, spanish johnny, kylewilliam, wendy, mary, ragamuffin gunner, joe roberts, marylou, terry, magic rat, and if you're real lucky, Bruce.
297. you regularly annoy some people in your house by playing "Backstreets" as loud as your stereo can at least once a day.
298. you relate everything that happens in your life to at least one Bruce song.

[brucegroupie]

#297 - DEFINITELY ME !!!!!

brucegroupie

[Zephyrs 23]

It's midnight in Worcester...
This is no time to be cute...

I actually just completed 297. AT midnight. I ROCK!!!

[beckster]

#289
Just finished listening to the 3/25/77 Incident.
It was pretty great. I enjoy the concerts with the
Miami Horns, they add alot to songs (10th Avenue, Little
Latin Lupe Lu). He should bring 'em along to Australia.

Anyone here go the the Boston Music Hall shows?

#292
Every morning I'm late to work, trying to decide what
bruceleg to listen to on the ride to work :cool:

[Crazy Davey]

I love these things!!! As for #289 - I will take any version, anytime, anywhere.

As for #292 - its one of the problems with having so much to choose from. sometimes I can't make up my mind and wind up putting of Southside or Gary Bonds.

[young again]

#279 - Anyone can be discombobulated (I've spent most of my life that way), but only Bruce can recomBOOBulate you!

[lori]

Re 298: and if not to a Bruce song, then to a Bruce situation, or some obscure fact you learned on this board (and then, of course, you have to say that "a friend told me so and so"--b/c you can't admit that read it on the internet), or to something that happened at a concert . . .

My boss just rolls his eyes everytime I mention Bruce--and of course he got to do it earlier this week when I asked him if his life changed a year ago on the 17th (he saw Bruce that night in LA). He spent a minute or 2 trying to figure out what I was talking about, and then he realized it would have to have something to do with Bruce--and remembered (needless to say, he wasn't converted that night--but there was no way he was going to be anyway--he just went b/c he has Premier tickets to Staples and it was "the thing to do" to be there opening night--but he redeem himself by giving me his tickets for closing night).

[L.Weller]

297 I don't annoy anyone in the house as we all love Backstreets, but we do annoy the neighbours.

[Pony Boy]

I was there that fateful night w/tape rolling when Bruce said that. I was 19 and lost in life. I had been a fan when a friend played The River for me and Nebraska truly converted me ( how many can say that?). So when things didn't seem to matter to me, I would go out driving all night in my 69 Mustang and listen to my own copy of the Lincoln NE show. Bruce and I covered alot of Nebraska miles together and recieved a few tickets too! I remember one patrolman let me off because I was drivin' to Springsteen, just told me to "watch my speed Son" and to listen to the words "really carefully" MAN! I think I need to go out DRIVIN' Anyhows when the tape came to that point Bruce always reminded me to keep my dreams alive! I lost that tape when my car was broken into in "90" But I can still close my eyes and think about that cool November Nebraska Fall nite. I always smile when durring Twist/shout he asks "how Everyone on the dance floor is do'n" and the crowd responds with getting the wave going in around the arena. Bruce just stopped watched us and replied "Ya all musta been practicin'" Indeed we were. Before the show that's all the crowd was doing. I think to this day that is why the show started late, someone back stage got Bruce to see how the crowd was entertaining themselves before the show, and they just sat back and watched us, Man what energy! Thanks!

[PIMDBOSSFAN]

What's wrong with believing in the promised land? Doesn't everyone? I know its out there! Thats right.

[E Street kid]

i Believe it's "Pok-e-Man-ized

[Madame Marie]

298..

The best bit is that my best friend has started to do this too (she has only been a "fan" for 3 weeks!!), in fact she just called me to say that she had been listening to Badlands & indeed

IT AIN'T NO SIN TO BE GLAD YOU'RE ALIVE!!!!!!

& yes I still believe in the Promised Land!