How to Recognize a BMX Parent

• Someone in your neighborhood ask you how old your kid is and you reply "10X"
• You automatically load up the bike and you're only going down to the corner store.
• You fall asleep at the wheel of your car and it takes you to the track instead of home.
• You may be late for work but your never late for sign-ups.
• Your kids bike is insured for more than your car.
• You develop a craving for hot dogs and polish dogs.
• You pay a computer programmer a lot of money to write a points tracking program.
• You buy a expensive computer to record the points on.
• You throw out the spare tire in your car trunk to make room for bike parts.
• Your kids birthday cake has a BMX track on it and all his gifts are BMX parts.
• You can't decide whether to go to your sister's wedding or to a double points race.
• A Sunday drive in the country means you're going to a race out of town.
• The first item on your monthly budget is entry fees and not the mortgage payment.
• The only clean clothes in the house are a pair of leathers and a jersey.
• The telephone bill has at least three calls a month to the ABA office.
• Your internet home page is set to www.ababmx.com
• The stoplight at the corner turns green and you try for a hole shot.
• Someone mentions a table top and you look for a pile of dirt.
• You can't remember the birth date of your spouse, but you can remember the birth dates of every other rider in your kids class.
• You try to claim a bike shop on you income tax.
• You start a BMX business so can take a tax deduction.
• No one can understand what you are saying but another BMXer.
• You are flabbergasted by the price of hamburger at the supermarket but not by the price of a bottom bracket.
• Your kids bike is color coordinated and your living room is not.
• You think all of the above is gospel truth.