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You go to the supermarket to buy a gallon of oil (And not for cooking)
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When someone passes gas you actually say it’s the highest compliment
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Instead of saying ‘Who’s your daddy’; you say ‘Who’s your fascia’!
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You change the wording of the commercial: ‘Can you hear me now’ with ‘Can you feel me now’!
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Instead of saying: ‘Open a can of Whoop Ass’; you say ‘Open up a can of Whoop elbow’!
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When someone says ‘Tensor Fasciae Latae’ and you giggle.
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Someone says the word ‘Penis’ and you don’t laugh (Because you actually use medical terms now).
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You don’t wear hardly any jewelry, because you have to take it off when you massage.
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You carry around a bottle of purell on your key chain.
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You actually ask for medical books for your birthday.
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You buy play dough to put muscles on a skeleton
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You don’t look at how beautiful someone is anymore; you only look at their posture.
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When someone in the mall says they are in pain; you give them your business card.
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Everyone wants a massage at your family reunions.
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You always look for someone to barter services with (Carpenter, Plumber, ect…)
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You can’t remember the last time you paid for a massage.
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You have three things in your pocket: Keys, Purell and nail clippers.
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You correct strangers in public to correct their posture.
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Your collection of CD’s include: Yanni, Enya and all nature sounds.
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You smell like a floral company after work.
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You always close your nose when you get close to some ones feet.
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You have your 3 year old daughter saying muscle names.
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You can never just give some a hug without massaging them during it.
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All of your friends want a free massage from you, but they won’t give anything in return.
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You won’t tell anyone when you are at the bar that you are a massage therapist.
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All your family members call you a Masseuse.
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You use the excuse that your are a massage therapist when it comes to heavy labor.
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You know you're a Massage Therapist when you call 20 - 30 hours a week ‘full-time.’
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When you see a guy carrying a big billfold in his back pocket and you want to tell him not to sit on it, because it can mimic sciatic pain.
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You cringe and at the same time feel relief when someone mentions the psoas muscle.
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You have massage magazines in your bathroom.
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It is cool to bite your nails.
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Everyone you know tells you about this knot they have.
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Your hands smell like feet every hour on the hour.
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You can fold sheets (even fitted ones) better than Martha Stewart.
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You keep mixing up the bicep femoris and the rectus femoris.
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You get angry when you go to a movie and the massage therapist is either considered a prostitute or ditsy.
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When someone complains that they have a problem in their rotator cuff; you then ask them what muscle is it.
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You know that there are actually 4 muscles in the quad.
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You actually ask someone if they are constipated.
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The muscle names actually mean what they are and where they are in the body.
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You can't relax when you receive a massage, because you are visualizing what techniques they are performing and what muscle they are massaging.
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You actually own finger cots and rubber gloves.
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You actually clean under your nails and you wash your hands all the way up to your elbow.
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You make A & P jokes.
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You actually brush your teeth at least 3 times a day.
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At a restaurant you ask them to hold the onions.
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You actually ask someone if they have cloudy or bad smelling urine.
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Snoring, drooling and farting are all high compliments.
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You just can't walk by a massage therapist giving a chair massage without saying something.
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You know never to go from the feet to the face with a technique.
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You actually clean your feet before you receive a massage.
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When you are massaging around the inguinal area and you are concerned about not
touching something; then you use the term PC (Penis conscious).
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You realize that every kinesiology book is a little different.
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You realize that change as a tip is degrading.
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You are conscious about how you breathe.
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For Women: You have short nails, you don't cross your legs anymore, you wear little to no make-up and you don't wear perfume anymore.
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We are not all earthy.
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Ask ten massage therapists a question and you will get ten different answers.
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Your 'significant other' whines about not receiving massages.
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Everyone thinks your 'significant other' receives massages all the time from you.
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You start thinking of everybody as just a lump of knots.
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Every time you injure yourself, you try and think what muscles were injured.
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You love it when someone gets a muscle injury, because you see money signs all over.
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You still can't pronounce the muscle names right (Is there really a right way for every muscle?).
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'SOB' actually stands for Shortness of Breath.
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Most headaches are not from your head.
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You correct your friends when they use inappropriate medical terms.
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When you realize that we will always be the low person on the totem pole in the medical field.
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When an employer offers you commission, then that actually means you still have to pays taxes on that.
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When someone says the word energy, you don't think of an outlet.
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An aura is not just a sensation before a migraine anymore.
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When someone says ‘Tensor Fasciae Latae’ and you know it's not a coffee drink.
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When someone says you are a pain in the butt or pain in the neck, you actually think of the muscles.
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You know that Reflexology will treat your Soul/Sole.
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You know that Reflexology will help heal/heel you.
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You think of massage as non-sexual.
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Biceps actually mean that their are two origins.
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You know the largest and smallest muscles in the body.
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You think massage tools are for wimps.
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The day after thanksgiving sale you actually go to the linen area first.
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People will tell there whole life history in an hour.
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You actually will go rock picking.
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CO-Ops are your supermarkets.
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Your share aromatherapy secrets with your friends.
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You point out moles and bruises to friends and relatives.
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You know that a 'Sprain' is ligament damage and a 'Strain' is either muscle or tendon damage
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You actually own hypnosis tapes and you are proud of it.
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Enya and Yanni are great, until you have heard them 100's of times.
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There are actual legal purposes of herbs.
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You have more massage oil than cooking oil.
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You keep oil in the refrigerator.
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You actually use an heating pack or a ice pack.
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You love to correct people on their posture.
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You think that no one gives a better massage than you do.