-When you are sitting in your car, waiting for the instructions to appear on the bottom of the dashboard.
-When you are actually counting down before you drive away with your car/bus/truck, no matter who is sitting with you in that car/bus/truck. You say out loud: 10...9...8...7...6 (now you start the engine and say:) we have main engine start...3...2...1...Lift off (exactly now you start to move your vehicle)...we have lift off!
-When exactly after 8 minutes and 38 seconds you turn off the engine of your car/bus/truck and you exclamate: "Main engine cut off!" Now you wait until ET separation occurs...
-When your wife asks you something you don't understand, you ask her for the Comm number.
-When you put TPS tiles on your car and install a drag chute.
-When everytime you miss the right exit on the highway, you are grumbling something that sounds like "missed the deorbit window".
-When everytime some mishap happens to somebody else, you say: "Oh my god, what have you done? You trashed the shuttle AND the crew!"
-When you call someone on the phone, the first thing you say is: "This is Houston, do you read?"
-When you end every sentence you say on the telephone with a "Beep!"
-When you do a circle for "heading alignment", everytime before you park your car.
-When you install a docking target in your garage.