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When you knick your flavor or the month against something hard enough to leave a scratch, and then physically feel like you fell down stairs.

You take the round knob off of your light dimmer switch and put on a Fender tone control knob.
When you frequently play slap bass on your girlfriend's back when you are out walking
A $200,000 boat is on display and you're only interested in how the mahogany compares to that on your Alembic. (Guilty.)![]()
When listening to any song, you just listen to the bass parts and nothing else.
i honestly know a guy who broke up with his girlfriend of 2 years because she was distracting him from his "bass time".When you get dumped for playing the bass too much. True Story.
Also, when you get dumped for playing the bass too much, you can't help but feel like you did something right.![]()

When listening to any song, you just listen to the bass parts and nothing else.
when you wake up and your bass is on the bed and your girlfriends on the floor
Im guilty of most of the stuff on this thread. I'm still not obsessed with bass.

When you hum bassline lullabies to your baby daughter, but don't realize you're doing it until your wife yells "JUST SING HER A F***ING SONG FOR ONCE! "
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