You know you're addicted to the Space Shuttle Mission Simulator when...

[MDBenson]

You call 'MECO on schedule' when someone turns off the ignition in the car.

Your bed is propped up against the wall.

All your food is in small lockers along the wall of your kitchen.

You 'comm check' everyone in the car before you set off on a journey.

[svenks]

When you try to float around your vehicle while moving.

...When you DO float around your vehicle while moving. 

/Sven

[Cygnus]

...when you mount foot straps below your toilet so you don't float away on your next "evacuation"

[bradleyjs]

Now that's Hardcore at its best!!! 

[MDBenson]

Ah hell yeh, that's almost as good as using a wet/dry vac to take a leak

[Admin]

Ah hell yeh, that's almost as good as using a wet/dry vac to take a leak

Don't try that at home!!!  

/Admin

[neosonic2k]

-When you say everything you do in SSM2007 and update about real NASA missions in realtime on Facebook.

-When you just can't take it anymore and decide to blog about the complexities of the space shuttle and its missions because no one understands what you're talking about. http://neosonic2k.blogspot.com

...of course, there might be errors....

[JLM]

When you label different rooms in your house as Node 1, Node 2, Node 3 and so on. A good example would be the backyard porch labeled as the Quest Airlock.

[Jeff B]

Good one JLM i like it!  I just named my new pet fish Cupola!!!!

[neosonic2k]

This was something funny that happened last friday night, and definitely fits the bill here. My uncle offered to buy me a joystick for FSX and SSM2007. So I told him about the Saitek X52. He said no problem. To help with decreasing the cost, I went to eBay to try and win an auction. 2 auctions went by too expensive, until I tried searching for different variants of the name. So I found this seller who mistyped Saitek X52 and wrote Saitek X53, but he got the "ps28" right, which I think is the product number... Still, I decided to nail a bid at the last 5 seconds, even if no one had bid on it.

I set my laptop on the kitchen table (where I have the best 3G signal, I wont have hi-speed for another week), and set a $75 bid, but I left the cursor on the "Confirm Bid" button. 5 minutes, 5 seconds before the auction ended, I set the microwave on a 5-minute timer countdown. My brother joined me later on. You can imagine what happened.

"T-50 seconds and counting... shuttle Saitek now on internal power..."
"T-31... GLS is Go for Auto Sequence Start. The cursor now has control of the countdown." ...and I set my hand on the mouse button. And my bro was grinning.
"25..." "...15..." ...and my bro does the loud whistling pretty much like the sound suppression system does when blasting all 350,000 gallons of water into the SRB/SSMEs trenches.

"T minus 10..." "GLS is go for main engine start" "..7...6..." My brother does the whooshing and burning rocket sound... "...and we have main engine start....3.....2.....1...." The microwave beeps, and I press the button, auction confirmed, and a 5 second refresh later told me that this launch wasn't scrubbed. I won the auction at $63.
"....aaannnd LIFTOFF OF SPACE SHUTTLE SAITEK! Delivering new freedom of control to all aircraft and spacecraft piloted from this computer!"

....random. I guess depositing the money at the bank and paying via Paypal was the OMS-2 burn to put this baby into a stable orbit since not paying for it would have me flagged as a non-buying bidder (premature reentry!).

Lol.... Cupola.

[JLM]

Nice way of counting down to winning the bid! So did you get the stick yet? If so is it in good condition?

[neosonic2k]

The X52 ain't here yet. It'll be shipped tomorrow according to the seller. Also according to the seller, it's brand new. :D Can't wait for that "shuttle" to land at my mailbox!

[spaceboy7441]

When you sell your house after finding out the space shuttle's are going on sale

[JLM]

When your constantly obsessing how to build a winged spacecraft to take you and your crew mates to orbit (which is why I opened the "Build your Own Spacecraft" Thread).

[CapitanPiluso]

When you propose yourself not going to bed until you hear the magic words : "capture completed"