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YOU KNOW YOU'RE A SWITCHFOOT FAN WHEN


How do you know you are REALLY a Switchfoot fan? Read ideas by others or submit your own!

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You Know You're A Switchfoot Fan When:




You know you are a Switchfoot fan when...


1. You put a big circle around "San Diego" on maps
2. You scream and dance because a new podcast is out
3. You scream and shout when one of their songs are on the radio
4. You have more then five pictures of Switchfoot hanging in your room
5. You are constantly quoting them...then start laughing when you do
6. You name all of your pets after the guys. Even your fish in Biology lab!
7. Your little sister's first word was "Jon" because of you!
8. Your baby brother will only stop crying in the car if "New Way To Be Human" is turned on. (True story!)
9. You have one or more Switchfoot pictures in your binder at school and you look at it frequently throughout the day
10. You push your SF covered binder to the veeery edge of your desk to see if anyone notices as they walk by.
11. You know the guys are married but call yourself Mrs. Jon and Mrs. Chad and Mrs. Tim anyway
12. When you freak out because Tim's birthday is in the same month as yours. (True story!)
13. Your cat will get mad at you if you turn on Gone!
14. When you see a "Vitamin Water" truck and freak out
15. When you quietly crack up whenever you hear the word "bam"
16. When you have over 200 pictures of Jon saved on your computer
17. You drive your family crazy with your obbsession
18. You cry when you can't find your music for three days
19. Your brother actually tells you Switchfoot hates you because you are that obbsessed
20. When you have serious plans to play "Amy's Song" at your funeral
21. When you call your radio station and they recognize your voice and refer to you as the "Switchfoot Girl"
22. You notice the guy sitting next to you has the same shoes as Tim in Switchfootage
23. You buy a lowercase people shirt just to match the one that Tim has
24. Your parents tell you that you come from another planet called Switchfoot
25. You catch yourself writing "I Love Jon" or "I LOVE Tim" on your hand
26. When you have a website, room, binder, folder, or bookshelf dedicated to Switchfoot
27. You can spot when the guys share their shirts
28. You draw them
29. You've listened to "Dirty Second Hands" like a thousand times
30. When you have more pictures of Switchfoot on your computer then you do of your own family
31. Your password, pin number etc are Switchfoot related
32. When you listen to one of their songs repeatedly, listening to a different element every time
33. You buy a pair of Macbeth shoes because the guys own them
34. Every time you hear one of the guy's names *i.e. Tim* you think of him and whether it really is him being talked about or not.
35. You hear Jon's voice and feel like crying with joy!
36. The only thing you ever ask for, for holiday gifts, is always related to Switchfoot
37. You open a myspace account just so you can be their "friend"!
38. You hope to death that you will get "Oh! Gravity" BEFORE Christmas
39. Every time your friends hear anything about Switchfoot, they think about you (true story!)
40. You see a black pinstripe hat at Target and think of Jon
41. You get depressed and really upset about the future when you don't listen and sing along to their music for at least a week...or maybe even a day!
42. You combine Switchfoot with another favorite (i.e. a TV show) and listen to them both at the same time
43. You freak out when you hear the word "gravity"
44. Whenever you are in science class and your teacher says "entropy" or other words from Switchfoot songs, you scream "Switchfoot!"
45. You stay up all night coming up with the craziest, stupidest plots for meeting Switchfoot. (Example: My sister and I made up carrying Jon away while he is crowd surfing)
46. Whenever you hear something about a gorella you freak and think about Jon! (True story: My youth pastor told us about one time he dressed up in a gorella suit! haha I was soooo happy!)
47. Whenever you hear or see the word switch you automatically think "foot" or "Switchfoot"
48. When your brother mentions one of his high school friends with the same name as one of the band members, your first thought is that your brother went to school with one of the Switchfoot guys and you never found out about it.
49. You spend 5 hours (or more!) coloring their O!G album cover (def. a true story for many of us!)
50. You call all the radio stations to request Switchfoot songs
51. You spend all day on The Boardie Trip thread on the LOBH Boards just to find out what is going to happen next *True story in my case*
52. You write on your jeans "I Love Switchfoot" *True story *cough* *
53. When you start writing the word "Switchfoot" when ever you try to write the word "switch"
54. You nod your head and laugh while reading these
55. You think about them every day. No matter what.
56. When you get into an argument with your English teacher on how to spell "gorella". By the way it's spelled with an "e" not an "i" Mr. English Teacher
57. You've typed or wrote "Switchfoot" so many times it begins to look like it's spelled wrong
58. You make your hand look like your wearing a glove because of all the Switchfoot quote and lyrics that you write over it and it makes your teacher give you a strange look *True story! I just love them so much!*
59. You chat with boardies about Switchfoot instead of doing homework
60. You were something Switchfoot-y for Halloween
61. You know who Jeanna and Stacee are :)
62. You are willing to drive many many many hours to see them in concert (Like, oh, 6?)
63. You know their personalities well enough to make up stories about them
64. You beg to go out of state more then once this tour because they're not coming to your state and one concert is never enough for you.
65. You always have the Daily Foot, Webcam, or SF Boards open in the background, no matter what you are doing. Sometimes you have all of them open.
66. When you take a 5 hour drive to see them...but that's not enough, so you convince your parents to take an hour plane ride to another concert.
67. In Science class, whenever the teacher or the book mentions "gravity", you start singing 'lalalalas' to yourself
68. When you hear a Switchfoot song and automatically relate it to a certain section in their podcasts.
69. When your friends groan and try to duct tape you to the floor when you say "You know Switchfoot..."
70. When you want to name your kids after all the guys in the band
71. When you have dreams about singing on stage with Jon
72. When you can't resist writing "Switchfoot" on the dusty table
73. When you kne all O!G lyrics before it's even out
74. You find Switchfoot in everything you do
75. You have a plate made with Oh! Gravity on it (True story!)
76. When you say "Switchfoot" to yourself over and over and it's starts to sound wrong
77. When you think about something funny that happened in a podcast and you burst out laughing...and everyone stares at you
78. 5 Switchfoot songs play in a row on your ipod...and it's on shuffle mode
79. You have so much Switchfoot related stuff in your room that when you clean your room, it all fills a whole box! (True story!)
80. Your driving at night and you tell your dad not to drive like Chad
81. 1ou hear your 8 year old daughter singing Switchfoot songs in the bathtub or walking quote lines from the podcasts!! (True enough! Our whole family models this obsession for her...she doesn't have a chance!)
82. When your family listens to Switchfoot instead of Christmas Carols while putting up your Christmas tree and decorations. It's so obsessive it's hilarious!
83. When you are on vacation with your friend and her family (and have been banned from listening to Switchfoot) and you are at a waterpark and hear "Meant To Live" and you freak out. Then later, that same day in a resturaunt, you hear "Dare You To Move" and you call your parents just to tell them!
84. When someone mentions something like "sleeping" or another Switchfoot related thing, you start laughing your head off, making all of your friends look at you weird
85. You've gotten used to having a dictionary next to while listening to their songs, so you can look up the words you don't know (true story!)
86. When you can't imagine what life would of been like without Switchfoot
87. When you have enough Switchfoot shirts to wear for 2 weeks straight
88. When you gave up a new ipod nano 2 gen. for the Switchfoot Holiday Package! (True story for me!)
89. You freak out when WAOT plays at American Eagle Outfitters
90. When you make submissions concerning true life stories about wierd Switchfoot coincidences to "You Know You're A Switchfoot Fan When..." web pages
91. When you go to a Switchfoot concert and get one of the guys' pick's or something, and all the way home you just stare out the window in shock *cough*true for me*cough*
92. When you start screaming because they are playing Ammunition at Hollister
93. When you can tell the guys' voices apart from eachother
94. When you tell your family to call the "George Foreman grill" the "Jon Foreman grill"
95. When you visit this website EVERYDAY!
96. When you mad a countdown to the release date of O!G and set it as your homepage
97. When you are helping your brother with his spelling words and you see a word that comes from a Switchfoot song and you start singing that song (true story!)
98. When you play a SF song on the strings from your Christmas tree - it didn't work!
99. When you see the word etc. and get all excited
100. You are looking in stores for Switchfoot related words/things because you are thinking about them
101. When you to Hollister just so you can go in and play Meant To Live on their little music player thing
102. When you create a song that goes like this: "Raise the roof like Tim...OH YEAH!...raise the roof like Tim!" *from podcast 5* (True for me!)
103. When you are waiting in line and you pass the time by seeing if you can repeat the lyrics of Lonely Nation from memory
104. When you're having a conversation with your friends and you randomly start bopping your head back and forth because you're singing a Switchfoot song in your head and your friends look at you funny
105. You know all the words to all their songs pretty much!
106. When you have a license plate that says "i hrt jn frmn"
107. When you make your mom watch the podcasts
108. When you're at Youth Group, and your pastor says that someone famous is coming to the Christmas party and signing stuff, you automatically think of Switchfoot (actually happened)
109. When you are bored in school and write down all of their lyrics perfectly
110. When out to lunch with friends, the husband mentions that he is going to San Diego on business, and you squeal and almost choke, sputtering out "That's where Switchfoot lives!!!!" (as if he NEEDED to know that...doesn't everyone?)
111. When your parents keep telling you that you are on the computer too much and that you are too obsessed with Switchfoot and that they are a stupid rock group and that they aren't your life and you walk away and say "Well how do you know?"
112. When you go to Hollister and freak out because they have a shirt that says 'San Deigo' on it and you must buy it.
113. When you always have a Switchfoot picture on your desktop
114. When you see Santa and you sit on his lap and he asks "What do you want for Christmas?" and you reply "Switchfoot!!!"
115. When you are so obsessed that your mom tries to figure out why, so she comes up with it's no different than anyone else liking an animal or something (True in my case!)
116. You ask your brother if he's 'happy' and he replies 'is a Yuppie Word'
117. When you get your cell phone and wave it in the air to one of the their songs even in the car.
118. When you want to go to a college in San Diego so you can spend all your spare time at the beach looking for the guys, or going to Carlsbad to find Tim!
119. You've had MANY Switchfoot related dreams
120. You can't pick just one Switchfoot song as your favorite because they are just so good!
121. When you know what is so funny about frogs
122. You check to see if your 22nd birthday falls on a Thursday
123. You know what O!G, LOC, NWTBH, LTB, TBL and NIS stand for. You also know what M2L, DYTM, HIAYW, TSPTS, TIYL, YATMT, BOB, LYLBS, and DSH stand for
124. When you don't call it San Diego anymore you call it Switchland!
125. When you are dying to try an In-n-Out Burger
126. When you find yourself reading a book by Newsboys and listening to a CD by Relient K and you still can't help thinking about Switchfoot. (True story!)
127. When you have all of their CD's and DVD's, and most of the clothes from their website
128. When you're nickname at school or church is Jon, Tim, Chad, Romey or Drew...even if you are a girl. *True story for me!*
129. When one of your friends says the words "stuck in my head" and you both automatically start singing "Poparazzi" *This happens with me all the time!*
130. When you currently have 121 pictures of Switchfoot on your bedroom walls...not counting the display case full of their DVD's and CD's (and the collection isn't even finished growing!)
132. When you start keeping a collection of Switchfoot stuff...tons of doodles from your boring class periods, concert tickets and other random things that just remind you of Switchfoot
133. When you play BINGO and every time someone says O you say Gravity
134. When you have over 300 pictures of Switchfoot in your room (true for me)
135. When everyone in your family calls you a Switchfoot addict!
136. When you have 90 Switchfoot songs on iTunes! (Yep I'm addicted! lol)
137. When a family member goes to Cali and was 2 hours away from San Diego and you tottally freak out
138. When you sing Awakening to wake up your family in the mornings
139. When your 7 year old little sister knows every word to Oh! Gravity because she's heard you listening/singing it all the time!!!
140. You have this website on your favorites more than once
141. You wait nearly two hours for a 3 minute podcast to load
142. When you know almost perfectly San Diego's streets, avenues, rivers, bays, beaches, etc. cuz you spend lots of time studying it with Google Earth (I just can't help it!)
143. When you scare people away with all of your Switchfoot facts. (coughtruecough)
144. When you and your friends are eating at a restaurant and "Stars" comes on the radio while you're there and all of you freak out and start singing out loud!!!
145. You buy 5 copies of Oh! Gravity the first day it came out (true story for me) hehe
146. When you about wet yourself when you found out that Oh! Gravity hit #1 on Top Ten Most Wanted.
147. When you have 149 Switchfoot songs on iTunes and still feel like you're missing something.
148. Your ipod clock is set to the time in San Diego and you live in Florida. (true for me!)
149. You get your sister totally addicted to Switchfoot
150. You scream and grab the remote (so your brother doesn't change the channel) when the Oh! Gravity video comes on MTV2.
151. When you bugged your dad so much that he finally caved in and told you that he got you the Switchfoot Christmas package.(true for me!)
152. You bought surround sound just to enjoy the Dual Disc NIS and TBL (true)
153. When you see a guy in a gorlla suit in San Diego and start chasing after him....hehe
154. When you make your Dad watch the Switchfoot dvds
155. You are almost literally always on the SF boards
156. When you look up the words "Nonsensical" or "abundant" in the dictionary. You might even use them.
157. When you've tried a spoon full of mustard.
158. You see O!G being advertised on TV, so you start jumping up and down and screaming and then you grab your camera and take pictures!
159. When you scream "Oh! Gravity is on FUSE!!!!" and your entire family comes running into your room to watch it! (very true for me lol, happened last night)
160. When you spend an hour and a half, voting 1,200 times to try and get them as number one on All Request Thursday! (Whew my hand hurts from clicking so much!)
161. When your mother actually checks on your progress while you are voting for over 2 hours for Switchfoot for All Request Thursday and she doesn't say you are "obssessed'! Haha I love my mother!
162. When you write a blog on myspace about social entropy!
163. When you plan to push your friend in the pool like in Switchfootage 2
164. Someone says gorella and the first thing you think of is Jon
165. When you ask your science teacher what diadecting and pultiplecting are... and stump him AND the music teacher (TRUE!)
166. When you start writing Jon even if your friend is called John.
167. You recorded the Late Show with David Letterman on January 4th! :)
168. When you set the tivo to record Switchfoot anytime they come on t.v.
169. When you like Relient K, but get super excited about their new CD and want to buy it the day it comes out... because you read that Jon is singing on it.
170. When you stay up till 4 in the morning on LOBH cause you are so busy talking about Switchfoot that you don’t even notice the time.
171. When the teacher hands out Sudoku puzzles in math and you immediately scream out "Omg, JON!"...and then the whole class looks at you strangely lol
172. You buy a horrible karaoke CD just because it has "bye bye bye" on it and when your friend offers to sing it, you make her wear a hideous hat
173. When, you don't realize the radio is on until a Switchfoot song plays.
174. Your mom has a dream about Switchfoot
175. When your birthday cake features Switchfoot. (true story)
176. When you freak out because you find out Drew wears the same type of bottom retainer as you do!! *true for me*
177. When you buy an SG guitar just because Jon has one...(heh heh yes I did that)
178. When your FIVE YEAR old brother knows all of the lyrics to Oh! Graivtty BEFORE the cd came out...(yes its true... I swear)
179. When you get to page 412 in your science book, and start freaking out in the middle of class. And the page is highlighted more times than anything else in the book...which actually did happen today.
180. When your mom calls from work to say that when she looks at the stars she feels like herself....
181. When Switchfoot on hearitfirst.com is featured as one of the sponsered links on myspace and you grab your camera and take a picture...yes that's right, I took a picture of the computer... my brother officially thinks I'm nuts now!
182. You are watching 'Grey's Anatomy' and when one of the doctors mentions paralysis, you automatically start laughing and think of Drew and Jon in podcast 3. (Just happned to me last week)
183. When you run around your school campaning for Oh! Gravity and people tell you to do something not very nice .....
184. When you can sing "American Dream" extremely faster than its original tempo, fluently.
185. You spend half an hour changing all the Genre settings of your Switchfoot songs in your iTunes Library, because Jon always identifies Switchfoot as "a Rock Band from San Diego"
186. Your TWO year old sister knows most of the words to Oh! Sabberie. (Thats how she says Oh! Gravity...its HILARIOUS =)
187. When you want to get up at 4:00 am and walk in around your neighborhood/backyard because Jon did it.
188. You run 2 laps around your school's track field and your time happens to be 4:12 and you freak out. (Happened to me today and it was the coolest thing ever!!)
189. You make threats with song titles
190. When your friends all know more than they want to about Switchfoot (How can that be possible?)
191. When you spend more time than you should trying to get your cousin to say "Switchfoot," and are really excited when she does(even if it sounds more like "misfits")
192. When you're reading a Junie B. Jones book with your little girl and honestly think for a second that it says Switchfoot on the page when it's actually "Switcheroo". It happens
193. When you have 13 --yes, 13 -- messages on your answering machine from random friends calling you from walmart to tell you Switchfoot is on the television.
194. When you out on your 14th birthday because you're exactly half Tim's age! =]
195. When you cancel plans with your boyfriend on Valentines day in order to see them in concert. (he doesn't have a ticket.)
196. When you try a fish toca even though you don't like fish just becuase you know its the guys favorite.
197. When someone asks what OMG stands for you say Oh! My Gravity!!
198. When you want to buy a giant inflatable ball and go to the beach with it.
199. When you're mom says you're rubbing off on her with your switchfooty-ness. (cough true cough)
200. When random kids know you as the 'Switchfoot Girl' or 'Switchfoot Guy'
201. When you name your gerbil Jerome....even though it's a girl.
202. When you talk to your little brother about the new podcast that you just watched for hours and he just say's "uh hu" the whole time.
203. When you think of a parody that might be on a Switchfootage DVD. :P
204. You want to get a life size picture of all the guys!
205. You have put all 6 CDs in your 6 CD changer of your car and you listen to them all the way through.
206. When you are at the Winter Jam concert w/ Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real, Jeremey Camp etc... and during intermission they were playing Oh! Gravity and you quickly run back into the stadium away from all the merchandise tables where you were buying a Hawk Nelson CD and you start jumping up and down and singing very loudly and you don't care that thousands of people are staring at you and thinking that you are mentally insane!!!
207. In a casual IM conversation concerning the movie you typed it "oh! brother where are thou." without thinking
208. You have listened to your +72 Switchfoot songs, three times, in one sitting.
209. When you make a distinct pronunciation different between "Jon" and "JoHn"
210. When you just go to Wal-mart to see them on sound check (true story) hehehe
211. When you eat a spoon full of mustard (EVEN IF YA HATE IT) when you have hiccups (true story)
212. When your cat hears Awakening and starts singing to it ( as shocking as it is it's a true story)
213. When you make your parents play the Oh! Gravity CD on your way home from eating out so you, your brother and your 7 year old sister can sing the entire CD together lol.
214. Your sister talked about a college science experiment and upon saying "mice" you began singing that verse of Meant to Live obnoxiously loud (oh its true)
215. You spend hours figuring out the setlist sudoku
216. When you name your cat's "ghostie" and "jett" and no one in your family knows why you named them that, and they still call them those names!
217. When you have nothing better to do than create setlist sudokus...
218. Your myspace layout is a Switchfoot one, your myspace profile song is a Switchfoot one, and you have a Switchfoot video on your myspace profile...
219. You're willing to take the Chem 6a course in college, even if science is your worst subject.
220. When you spend days mastering "the clap" from 4:12... just so you can impress everyone, when the guys play it at your concert...
221. When you can relate to #220...hahaha....
222. When giving your sister a spelling test you mistake the word "dirt" for "dirty" and start singing "Dirty Second Hands"
223. When you're driving home from dinner with the family listening to the O!G album and singing it with your mom and sister in the back seat
224. You're on the phone with your friend talking about a chemistry equations and she says, you need to 'break it down', and you immediately start hearing Tim in the 18th podcast saying 'what what? Break it down, break it down now'
225. When you're in a bad mood, turn on Switchfoot, and automatically have a smile on your face.
226. You are seriously considering getting a tattoo of the Switchfoot logo.
227. You walk into Hollister(clothing store) just to pick Switchfoot songs on their music player and play all of the ones available.
228. When you bought all of the songs on their celeb playlist on iTunes hehehehe like me
229. When you pick up a spoon and upon your brother realizing there's a second spoon stuck to the bottom he exclaims, "Oh Gravity!"
230. When you constantly call yourself a Switchfreak and none of your friends look at you strangely
231. When you update your mp3 player once a week to add new bootlegs.
232. When playing truth or dare, you dare some one to move.
233. You see them 5 times in one tour even though they're not coming to your state.
234. You set your alarm clock for 4:12.
235. When you are seriously considering having the song "Yesterdays" played at your funeral
236. When you wake up at 4:31 am and your first thought is that you just missed "4:12"
237. When you have trouble leaving a room when a Switchfoot song is playing.
238. When, for Christmas, your friend prints you out 4 whole pages of Switchfoot pictures off the internet!! (true story)
239. When you see a "Got Milk" add with Beyonce and can't help but crack up laughing.
240. When you're family is talking about how someone's going out of town and might need to come back early (within a day of an out of state SF concert) and you automatically come up with a way to get to the concert while picking up the out of town person.
241. Whenever its 4:12 you tell everyone around you to stop and make a wish, and everyone thinks you are crazy.
242. When your friend tells you about this band she likes called the Jonas brothers and break out in a big grin because the NIS cover is in the background of their music video. Then you can't get wait to get home and listen to them. (true story)
243. When you post a link to their myspace page on various music boards hoping that people will check out their music and like it just as much as you do.
244. When you e-mail their Oh! Gravity e-card to random people on campus you don't even know.
245. When you start to "take matters into your own hands!!" and begin contacting concert organizers, clubs and random venues and request they book Switchfoot (even though they just played in your area a month ago!)
246. When you put all of your Switchfoot songs on your dad's lPod- and he memorizes all the words! *cough cough true cough cough*
247. You are doing dance in gym and for your dance you do the 'Timmy Shimmy'
248. You use up all your color ink because you were printing out Switchfoot pictures
249. You put the Oh! Gravity album on repeat at night just so you can fall asleep and wake up to Jon's voice
250. You're on microsoft word and you spell Switchfoot wrong or you spell something to do with switch or foot and it automatically corrects it for you (true story)
251. When you are in geometry and your teacher is talking about scale factors and she writes S.F. on the board to abbreviate and you say "OMGosh!! Switchfoot!" really loud and nobody looks at you weird because you always talk about Switchfoot anyways.
252. When you know every single word from all their songs, and you can sing it backwards!
253. When you own 375 pics...plus photo books...you have every cd plus unreleased song...and you know your obsessed (hey the first step is admitting it! )
254. When you tell the story of how you met Switchfoot, and every single detail you can remember from meeting them, every single day to anyone that's listening or not, from the concert you went to 4 months ago. Even things like how Tim waved back at you when you waved at him and how he smiled too!(true story...hehe)
255. When you have over 100 of their songs on your ipod :)
256. You make a shirt filled with your favorite quotes from the guys and lyrics from all their songs.
257. You can relate everything in your life to something they did or something in one of their songs
258. When you think it is so cool that your best friends name is Emily!! (so true for me!!)
259. When you freak out and tell everyone that you and Drew were born in ths same country!! (true for me!!)
260. When you mom goes around the house saying "you got a shiner"
261. It's either 4:05 or 8:05 P.M/a.m and you start singing Amateur Lovers in your head.
262. When you bought the new Relient K cd just to hear Jon's voice in one of the songs
263. When you go to school with a Chad, a Tim, a Drew, a Jerome, and a Jon... then it just gets creepy (true!!!)
264. When you freak out because your step-dad actually admitted to liking the song THE SETTING SUN!
265. When your mom comes home from the gym all excited because they played Oh! Gravity at the gym!
266. When you make a project and use the city Sandy Eggo as the subject.
267. When every night before you go to bed, you say to your brother, "and cut" and to your sister, "good night punk!" (true, true, true!)
268. When you listen all the way through the 11 minute long Relient K song "Deathbed" 10 times (literally) just to hear Jon sing at the end! :)
269. When you tell all your friends you got a Christmas card from Switchfoot (well it's true! ha ha!)
270. You've actually read EVERY single entry of the "You Know You're A Switchfoot Fan" list
271. When your mom knows everyone in Switchfoot, listens to them all the time
272. When you wave to your Switchfoot poster every time you walk into your room.
273. After a Switchfoot concert you wake up a 4:12, and as you see the time on the clock, not only do you recount the song during the concert...but wonder if Jon is up now as well.
274. As you are in the shower shampooing your hair, you start pondering what shampoo Tim uses to make his hair look so darn good!!!
275. You always play monopoly with Company Car on and when you do play it you have to be the foot or the car. =p
276. You start to freak out every time you hear the words "San Diego"
277. You call your station to request a song and the person says before can say anything "which Switchfoot song do you want?"
278. When you watch Podcast 15 about Chad's "mouth brow" over and over again - and you laugh just as hard the 100th time as you did the first time you saw it...AND you can recite it word for word!!!
279. When your dad at first calls Switchfoot "just another band" and ends up loving them (and you see that a few of them are on his top 10 most played list)! :P
280. When your friend starts out only knowing the songs Dare You To Move and More Than Fine and you make her listen to Switchfoot until she ends up loving them as much as you do...hehe
281. When you go to a Switchfoot's concert and you scream so hard that you can barely speak after the concert!!! and the next week after it... lol (true story)
282. When your nauseous stomach is healed during a long drive as soon as Oh! Gravity starts playing! (true story for me!)
283. When you start a group on facebook called "Switchfoot is what gets me through the day!!"
284. When you say to your mom "Guess what?" and she says, "Let me guess, something to do with Switchfoot?"
285. When you suddenly start wanting to be a pro surfer just because the SF guys like to surf. (True, true, story.)
286. Your cell phone background picture is always Switchfoot! (totally true)
287. Your dad calls and your mom answers singing, "This is your wife, is she who you wanna be?"
288. When you decide you want to move to San Diego because you have a better chance of running into the guys when they're at home there. (hehe)
289. You have the Oh! Gravity cd playing in your kitchen, on your computer in the living room, and on your iHome in your bedroom....so Switchfoot is everywhere!!!!
290. When everyday, something Switchfoot related happens and you think "Man, I gotta add that to the 'You Know Your A Switchfoot Fan When...' list!!"
291. When you're guilty of number 272.
292. You stick around on the weather channel a little longer to see what the weather's like in San Diego.
293. When you try to touch one of the band members at church! (true story)
294. You have memorized every song, every acronym, every release date of every album, all of their birthdays, and have every music video on your iPod
295. When your mom tells you about a dream she had with Jon in it.
296. When you're guilty of over half the things on this list :P (true for me)
297. When you get jealous because the ONE day you didn't go to church, your dad got to talk to Jon Foreman. (very true story)
298. Your sister comes home and immediately asks "Did you get to see 4:12?" (on the clock) ;D
299. When having a serious conversation with a friend in their time of need...the best example you can come up with is a Switchfoot song!
300. When you wonder why the person who wrote #293 doesn't just talk to them.
301. When "This Is Your Life" is played during a school prayer service and you start belting out the lyrics from the front row.
302. You spend three hours printing out 42 pages of quotes and fun facts by/about the guys *cough cough true cough cough*
303. When you talk to your Switchfoot poster.
304. When you're in Barnes & Noble and check out the 'S' part of the index in a book about San Diego just to see if they might have 'Switchfoot' in it.
305. When after almost a year of having your locker, you finally realize that your number 412. (true)
306. When you try to get all your friends obsessed too! (yes I got 1 friend obsessed)
307. When you dye your Easter eggs so they are all Switchfoot related.
308. You go to Chick-fil-A because Switchfoot seems to like it. (I got the Iced Tea, it was sweet =)
309. When you try to get your profile picture on myspace to be of you...and have your Switchfoot poster casually in the background...like it just happened, that you weren't planning for it to be there...but your friends who know you really well knew it took lots of effort!!
310. When you and your friends are planning to drive 2500 miles "to go on a road trip and see the country, and visit the Pacific Ocean" and it just happens to coincide with the Bro-Am. I could care less about the country and ocean, I just want to see the guys!!
311. You're in science class and you see a heading in the book saying "Erosion by Gravity" and start smiling like crazy.
312. When you did #285 and #275. :]
313. When any little word or phrase reminds you of a Switchfoot song (i.e. gravity, beautiful, amy, chemistry, Monopoly, the curb, etc...) and you begin to sing the song until someone shuts you up
314. When you think that #311 in insanely AWESOME
315. You stay up until 2:00 in the morning just laying in bed listening to a SF cd on repeat and humming along to all the songs.
316. You're at Six Flags and a sign has "SF" on it and you point and yell, "OMG! Switchfoot!" and your friends go, "No... Six Flags."
317. You start liking Relient K because Jon sang on "Deathbed", and you had to watch Jay Leno because Relient K was on there!
318. When you say that you live in Switchfoot...because you live in Sunny Florida or South Florida, which would both be SF, which automatically clicks with Switchfoot.
319.1 You have watched all your Switchfoot dvd's SO many times, your whole family has banned you from watching them on any TV except your own...(*sniff*-it actually happened...and the sad part is that they like SF too!!!)
320. You read in a book "not only was it my ambition, it was my destiny" and you automatically think of Drew and Tim and Awakening. Later you freak out when the book talks about someone shimmying! as crazy as it is, it's true!
321. You style your hair like Jon's because...the chicks love him...duh!
322. When your vocabulary increases with words like avarice, contrition and Cassius Clay.
323. When you begin having thoughts of opening your own coffee place in hopes that one day the guys will stop by.
324. When random people you hardly know come up to you at school and say "Hey! I heard a Switchfoot song on the radio today and it made me think of you!" (This happens a LOT!!!)
325. You use Switchfoot lyrics for Probe words
326. When your friends start relating random things to Switchfoot even though they aren't fans at all.
327. When someone says "I'm the problem" and the next thing you think of is "I'm the politician..."
328. All of your top 25 most listened songs on iTunes are by Switchfoot.
329. You randomly start singing "Waaaccooo... Wwaaaccoooo" and get weird looks.
330. Your friends are so tired of hearing you talk about or freak out about Switchfoot in public places they start telling people around you "they were born this way".
331. When you stand outside a show for two hours in Charleston to see Switchfoot and then you realize you're 45 years old.
332. You are totally guilty of 329
333. When its cold and you tell your Switchfoot-obsessed friend that the wind is piercing your soul. :]
334. Whenever you type "switch" you automatically/unconsciously type "foot" after it... or least just the "f" before you realize your mistake.
335. When you forward the Awakening music video to all of your mom's friends.
336. You're reading a book that mentions San Diego and start smiling like crazy.
337. When you are looking at the "cool new people" part on myspace and you see the name 'Jon' and freak out
338. You're chem teacher starts talking about entropy...and you gasp. You also think that the "change in S" formula is really code for “Switchfoot" (Switchfoot does mean change...it could be a viable reason)
339. When you have looked at this page so many times, you have the list memorized...(j/k I haven’t done THAT!)lol
340. When you're such a hardcore fan/m that over time half of your extended family falls in love with SF too.
341. When you've watched video clips from (or listened on cd) of your concert and memorized everything that Jon says (yes, I have)
342. When you get at a concert venue at 10:00 am and stand there for 10 hours in the freezing cold, with nothing to drink, eat or any place to go to the bathroom haha. (true story)
343. When somebody asks you how you are and you answer "More than fine".
344. You are doing a job and say I don't know what im doing and automaticly say lets do it again.
345. Your greatest claim to fame is that your birthday is 4/12.
346. When you pull your hairout because a Switchfoot song is not climbing up the music charts! ARG!
347. When one of your car's back tires is uneven and is riding unevenly you say it's doing the "Timmy Shimmy" (true for me! lol)
348. When you're in science, and the board says '0 Gravity' as in Zero Gravity, but you thought it said Oh Gravity (true for me)
349.When you're in computer class, you go to Switchfoot.com and set it as the homepage, so the next person who gets on that computer will get a fantastic surpise! (true for me)
350. when you in science class and some one asks you how to spell "gravity" and you look at them as if they are insane and all your friends start to laugh while the rest of the class tries to figure out why you are so shocked about the question
351. When your vocabulary has increased since you started listening to Switchfoot.
352. When all you have are Switchfoot pictures on your wall,then you realize you have over 200!
353.When a commercial for the depression drug Cymbalta reminds you of Jon because it has the word cymbal in it...(Just happened)
354. When almost everything on your myspace revolves around Switchfoot, and your song is always a Switchfoot song and you have their album as first in your music section, have pictures of them in your about me part (thats me for sure), and quote them on your myspace...and put them under heroes and who you would like to meet. :)
355. When none of your friends bother asking what music/song you're listening to because all you listen to is Switchfoot. (who, me?? yes, very much so haha)
356. When you FREAK OUT because you are talking to your literature teacher and you find out that not only does he like Switchfoot and that he is Tim's age, but he is FROM San Deigo, has SEEN the guys there, and had friend that went to school with them (true for me!!!)
357. when you can't wait 'til there are 365 of these so you cant print each one out and make an a-page-a-day calendar!!! lol
358. When you go across 3 states to deliver ChickFila tea to the tour bus before a show because Jerome just happened to say he loves the stuff.
359. You're in a Bible class and you're teacher tells the class to turn to 1 TIMOTHY 4:12 and you shout out "CAN I READ IT!??"
360. The first thing you think about is Switchfoot's song and NOT the TV show when you hear the word "24" hahaha
361. When you think #357 is AWESOME and you plan to do it, and possibly make one for all your friends so they'll get obsessed too.. hehe
362. You write 'Happy Switchfoot Friday' on the white board and your teacher erases it and you go back and write it again and she gets mad at you and you tell her she has to keep it up or else, and then you get in trouble :D
363. When you stay up an hour later than you mean to because you're listening/reading interviews, watching videos, posting on the SF boards, voting for SF in poles etc. And even when you do pull yourself away you come back here to make a submision on a "You know you're a SF fan(m) when" webpage.
364. When you try to imitate Tim's laugh after watching podcast 19
365. When you have a cow because your Chik-fil-a ticket totaled to $4.12.
366. You can't go to another band's concert and not mention Switchfoot at least once.
367. To "burn out bright" has become your life's ambition.
368. When the SF logo suddenly appears on the board every day in every class.....
369. You are learning about scale factors in geometry and think of them every time you write the abbrevation sf!
370. When you burst out laughing because in your music room at school there is a poster that says CANADIAN IDOL Looking For A New Gig?
371. When you spazz out because your school is playing "The Setting Sun" on a big sound system in the middle of the quad and you run around asking people "Guess who this is?!?"
372. You freak out when you realize you have exactly 412 Switchfoot songs in your WindowsMedia player (lots and lots of duplicates. Purely by accident. :P)
373. When you're guilty of #364 even though when you do it, it's unintentional.
374. When you really want to be the person to post #412
375. When you tell your brother that he laughs JUST like Tim! (he DOES it it sooo weird!!!)
376. When you are guilty of the Scale Factor one. And when your friends AND math teacher always ask when you are going to a Scale Factor concert!
377. You are thrilled because we finally have more than 365!!!
378. You write "Oh! Gravity" on the chalkboard (without signing it) in 1st period math, and people come up to you later in the day saying, "Hey, nice note in math." (Ahh, I do it all the time =D)
379. You've told tons of people in PE that the wind is piercing your soul, even though it's 100 degrees out. Then when they look at you strange, you can only wonder why they didn't get it.
380. When your electricity goes out so you are using your laptop battery and your on the phone with your sister and all the sudden you see its 4:12 and you go 'ITS 4:12 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" and your sister is like "what the?" and you go "ITS A SONG I'M GUNNA LISTEN TO IT NOW!"
381. When switchfoot cds are the only cds your best friend wont ask if she can burn because she feels like she is stealing from them and she knows that you love them so much and she would never want to do that to you or them.
382. When you refresh your iTunes podcasts every day, actually many times a day just in case they've added another one
383. When you read any of the above posts mentioning one of the podcasts, you immediately watch the podcast just to make sure you know what they're talking about
384. You have a dedicated Switchfoot bookmarks folder full of SF links (and you visit them all several times a day).
385. When you think it is so cool on the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" that two of the characters are named after Tim and Jon's wives: Andrea and Emily. LOL!!
386. When you start planning your trip to next years bro-am the day after you went to it.
387. When you are at a concert and you are the only person freaking out when you hear 'Burn Out Bright' blasting on the speakers (happened at the Relient K concert I went to!)
388. When you see sf written on the board in class and freak out even though it stands for San Francisco
389. When you’re really bored and you read all 388 of the above posts.
390. You scream when you find out that your half birthday is Chad's birthday and his half birthday is your birthday!
391. When you realize that the city circled on a snowboarding commercial on the CA map is San Diego, and you freak out and tell your mom.."guess what city that is"??!! (true for me, happened yesterday during the AI finale)
392. Every time you get into your Dad's company car, you start singing "I've got the company car..." and everyone just tries to ignore you.=)
393. You are guilty of 384 and 386! I have been looking forward to this Bro-Am all year!
394. When listening to American Dream, you pause it and have the, "American Dream pause." Then start yelling, "That ain't my America, that ain't my America", over and over again...It's sad!
395. When you download Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" just because Jon likes it
396. When you have every intention to make another one of these everyday hoping u will be #412!!!
397. When you think it is so cool, that in English class, you had a quote said by a guy name Jerome! (Haha, happened to me today!)
398. When you send your dad Switchfoot songs to his e-mail from e-snips, true for me!!
399. When you make LOBH the homepage for every computer you go on... even if it's not your computer!
400. You named your hermit crabs after them...
401. You see the commercial that advertises the greatness of California with Arnold, Teri Hatcher, Clint Eastwood, etc and you get mad because Switchfoot's not in it, especially during the surfing part
402. When you freak out because your mom is about to earn a company car and you'll be driving it :D :D
403. You start mixing all the songs together until you have one massed giant Switchfoot song of your favorite lines.
404. When your graduating class has over 800 students, and you are interested to find out who is ranked #412.
405. You go to Jason's Deli and the little plastic order number you get is 24 (and you start singing the song in the deli :D)
406. When the "best by" date on the milk in June 2 (Bro-Am), and you freak out.
407. You begin planning your senior trip to California and to the Bro-am 3 years in advance. (Guilty.) :P
408. You seriously flip out when people don't wear their switch-gear of Switchfoot Friday
409. When you are so happy when TWLOHA is mentioned in the June issue of CCM magazine and they mention Jon Foreman and you rush to go tell your mom!
410. When you just move, and bizarrely make your best friend a Switchfoot fanatic when she likes country music!!
411. You start jumping up and down at a Relient K concert because they are playing Yesterdays while you wait
412. You can't do a sudoku puzzle without thinking about setlist sudoku
413. Almost all the inside jokes between you and a friend are things said by the guys at concerts/in podcasts/in Switchfootage
414. You see the word entropy on your AP Biology exam and start singing Politicians instead of focusing on the test
415. When you have read the "You Know You’re a Switchfoot fan when” entries and realize you are guilty of about 99% of them. =]
416. When you force your uncle to watch Switchfootage II with you!
417. When you think #403 is a really awesome idea
418. When my Switchfoot-obsessed friend and I sang oh! gravity to our PE class while running past them during cross-country. Then while singing, a kid in PE, that doesn’t even like Switchfoot sang the lyrics with us, cause he had heard us sing it so much at school. We're so influential :]
419. Whenever you buy a CD (or any other piece of merchandise) from another band, you feel slightly guilty because it seems like you're being disloyal to SF (lol)
420. When you freak out, when you read a sentence in your grammer book, and it mentions a poem called "Home" and you automatically think of the song "Home" on "The Legend Of Chin"...by Switchfoot...(duh!!) LOL
421. When you go to a chick-fil-a resturaunt and wait in line for 30 min (because they only had 2 workers and it was a long line)just to get freshly brewed ice tea and freshly squeezed lemonde. lol.
422. When you leave the room your friends write "Abbey loves Switchfoot" (< or just enter your name lol)
423. When your seat on a plane is row 24 and you're very happy about that.
424. When you freak out cause your 22nd birthday is on a Thursday like Jon the year he wrote Let That Be Enough. (true for me!)
425. When the only thing you focus on is a Switchotel on the way back from the airport to home, even after a 4-month absence from home.
426. When you're at the grocery store and you go by the drinks and spot some Vitamin Water and you just start smiling and quietly laughing to yourself :)
427. When you're in a lecture class and the teacher asks for reasons how the world can "keep it together" and you blurt out "Get the world to listen to Oh! Gravity!" and the class just stares at you.
428. You see the time 4:12 and you smile.
429. When you have the song "Someday We'll Know" by Jon Foreman and Mandy Moore on your iPod, and you put by as: Jon & Mandy (since you are SO in love with Jon, and your nickname is Mandy!!) TRUE FOR ME!!
430. When your brother has a fish and you call it Jerome even though that isn't his name and you argue with your brother about it! (true!)
431. When you still have the ticket from your previous Switchfoot concert(s), oh and you have them pinned on your wall. (so true for me)
432. When you realize that the song 4:12 is actually 4 min and 12 seconds long!
433. When you have San Diego's temperature on your laptop!! So true for me!
434. When you're more excited about Friday being Switchfoot Friday and the first day of Chad month than you are about it being the last day of school in your district.
435. You are reading the "You Know You're A Switchfoot Fan When..." and see #411 and remember they played "Dirty Second Hands," while waiting, at the Relient K concert you went to!
436. When you are so guilty of 409!
437. You freak out whenever you see or hear anything that has to do with the digits 412
438. When all your friends, even the ones who arent SF fans can name every one in the band, what each person plays, and give a short description of all the guys!(hanging around with me, they can't help it!)
439. You scream Oh!Gravity at the top your lungs at the top of a rollercoaster. =)
440. When you lend "live in San Diego" to your teacher and friends to get them more obsessed!
441. Instead of saying "hey look a sun set." you say, "hey look a setting sun!"
442. When you are so happy that you might get to actually hang out with Switchfoot one of these days, cause your youth pastor has connections! (TRUE!)
443. You use 'Timbits' as a unit of measure
444. You know what Timbits REALLY are...and how they connect with Switchfoot.
445. When you feel a cold wind you say "this wind is piercing my soul."
446. Thursday plays a gig at your college and you get dragged into going...but before the show you freak out because they are playing various rock songs, one of which is Arcade Fire's 'Rebellion(Lies),' reminding you of the guys
447. Every time you hear some song you're thinking...Switchfoot is still better!
448. You're walking in a mall and you look up and see a shoe store called Footaction and your friend takes a picture of it on her phone.
449. You read one of these posts, realize you aren't doing what it says but know you could be and feel the need to begin doing the aforementioned thing in order to become a more dedicated Switchfoot fan.
450. When you are not embarrassed to talk about Switchfoot and be completely crazy for them!
451. You take a picture of every single clock in your house of 4:12
452. You get all exited on April 12 just because the date is 4/12.
453. You freak out when your drivers ed teacher talks about how nice drivers are in San Diego. You think to yourself, "she must have been driving next to the guys..."
454. When all of your passwords for emails and other stuff you signed up for online are Switchfoot related
455. You no longer say you are a switchfoot fan, instead, you call youself their "co-conspirator"
456. Whe you almost pass out when you know your english teacher went to San Dieguito Academy. (class of 94)
457. Your sisters guess that anything that comes out of your mouth is "something Switchfoot-y" and they're right.
458. You travel to the other side of the country [San Diego]to see what Switchfootland is really like.
459. You have entire converations that quote podcasts
460. You go to college orientation and find out there is no "Chem. 6a" at your school (the numbering system is set up differently) and you get a little sad inside. You don't need chemistry for your major, but you would have taken Chem. 6a!
461. You take your friend's little brother everywhere because whenever he gets in your car a switchfoot song comes on the radio (IT'S SO CREEPY)
462. You know that switch is a perfectly good prefix for anything
463. When you try to say 405 as a random number, then realize your accidental switch-reference
464. You scream Oh! Gravity when you go upstairs to your Switchfoot bedroom
465. You watch "A Walk to Remember" a lot. (Not because the main guy is attractive or the movie itself is awesome. You watch it just because some of Switchfoot's music is on it.)
466. When you randomly relay bits of Switchfoot history (ex: did you know Switchfoot has been around for 10 years?)
467. You draw the SF logo on your eraser (true, I am such a freak!)
468. You get together with your friend to think of things to put on the "you know you're a switchfoot fan when" list
469. You know alot of Johns but when you start talking about a Jon, your friends don't even bother asking which John...because of course you are talking about Jon Foreman!
470. You, your sister, and your friend shout "OH! gravity" at the top of all the roller coasters you ride (and also call them music-coasters)
471. You and your sister go to the top of the little kiddie waterslides and shout DOLPHIN!
472. A total stranger walks into wal-mart and you hear his ringtone which is "this is your life" going off, so you freak out and run up to him to tell him not to answer his phone.(true story =])
473. You stop in traffic, endangering your life, to take a picture of the sign that says 'highway 412'.
474. You say, "Sorry I'm awesome" when you apologize to someone.(Don't worry, I'm not that mean!)
475. Whenever you say the word "gone" you say "Like Frank Sinatra, like Elvis and his mom" after it.
476. You go on the Hollywood Tower of Terror JUST so you can scream "I LOVE SWITCHFOOT" at the top of your lungs and not have anyone get mad at you.
477. You set all of your codes and ID numbers to SF related numbers...so you know you won't forget them
478. Switchfoot Friday is like a national holiday to you and your friends.
479. When most of your favorite bands are local San Diego bands.
480. How about, "You Know You're MARRIED to a Switchfoot Fan When..." he knows more SwitchTrivia than your 16-year-old daughter---who introduced him to the band in the first place!
481. You FREAK OUT, because YOUR name is Emily AND your sister's name is Sarah! (SO true!)
482. You get SO ticked off, cause your birthday is ONE day short of being on the 24th!!! (True for me! My birthday is on the 23rd)
483. You've memorized all the podcasts, AND you lip-sync to them
484. You had 3 hermit crabs then someone gave you two more, so you changed all their names so they could be named after Switchfoot.
485. You can quote the Oh! Gravity Album Preview, and are stunned & disgusted when people get bored before the 17+ minutes are up.
486. You touched a band member at a concert, and you remember exactly where they were, what position they were in, where you were, and which hand you touched them with... and the concert was more than (fine!) a year ago.
487. When you got to the Bro-Am 7 hours early and rather than sitting on a towel on the sand, you stood devotedly right up against the stage to save your place... and even though you were one of the only 7 people at the stage, you refused to risk leaving for something as trivial as water or sunscreen, just in case the crowd formed the second you walked away (true...it was so worth it!!!)
488. You've actually re-written the song Weasly Is Our King from Harry Potter, just so you could give it the title Romey Is Our King
489. When you and your friends turn standard abbreviations into SF related things (ex. OMG = oh! my gravity and WTF = wat the foot)
490. When you freak out because you end up waking up at the same time for a couple of days. or start waking up at 4:12am alarm clock or not.
491. You're a San Diegan your whole life, and the most important thing you tell people about your city is that Switchfoot's from here!
492. You never in your life took any pride in being a San Diegan... until you found out Switchfoot's from San Diego
493. You randomly give your friends nicknames from the podcasts (i.e., mouthbrow, BAM, life coach, etc)
494. The word "mustache" is stricken from your vocabulary, to forever be replaced by "mouthbrow"
495. You don't quite understand why nobody else spells it Hur rather than Her....
496. You go to a Switchfoot show and ask the rodey for a drumstick & when he says no, you get so depressed that your dad asks different rodies for the next 20 minutes until the first one finally comes back with a beautiful Chad drumstick, along with Tim's bass pick and Drew's guitar pick just to get your dad to shut up already (true story)
497. You make pancakes into letters the spell out 'Switchfoot'.
498. When you and your WHOLE FAMILY abide by #494, and will forever know the common mustache as a "mouthbrow".
499. You beat someone up because they said they found a lame mixed CD they made in 2005. It had Meant to Live on it.
500. You interrupt to toughest workout in swim team history because Meant to Live is on a random mix CD you found in the locker room.




We received so many entries in our 'You Know You're A Switchfoot Fan When' list, that we had to create three pages to hold them all! Click here to see the other entries! Page 2 | Page 3