We began with “You might be a dull man if gray is your favorite color.” The list is growing:

  1. New . . . if you nap.

  2. . . . if you still dial and listen to a Speaking Clock [thanks to Steve R., London, for this one, click here]

  3. . . . if one of your favorite colors is UPS brown

  4. . . . if, because of the colors they use, you prefer UPS over FedEx

  5. . . . if, when you are in a hotel, you prefer a view of parking lot instead of beauty mountains or beaches

  6. . . . if you’ve won a Straight Row Farming Contest [thanks to Claude Hopper, Ogallala, Nebraska, for this one]

  7. . . . if you like mac and cheese

  8. . . . if you like meatloaf [thanks to Herb Aceous, London, for this one]

  9. . . . if you enjoy listening to water dripping

  10. . . . if you enjoy watching tide going out and coming back in

  11. . . . if you collect sand

  12. . . . if you collect coat hangers

  13. . . . if on Friday nights you organize your book collection (thanks to Paul for this)

  14. . . . if you arrange the suits in your closet by their shades of gray, from light gray to charcoal gray

  15. . . . if you arrange the food in your fridge by use-by dates

  16. . . . if you record your lawn mowings

  17. . . . if, when you are waiting for a train to pass by at a train crossing, you count the train cars

  18. . . . if you arrange the paper clips in your desk by their sizes

  19. . . . you enjoy stapling papers

  20. . . . if you wear both a belt and suspenders

  21. . . . if you like to watch tide come in and go out

  22. . . . if you like to watch grass grow

  23. . . . if you enjoy mowing grass

  24. . . . if you like to watch airport luggage carousels

  25. . . . if you like to watch leaves fall

  26. . . . if you like to rake leaves

  27. . . . if you like to watch ice and snow melt

  28. . . . if you like to watch water freeze

  29. . . . if you like to watch grapes turn into raisins

  30. . . . if you read Popular Mechanics instead of Maxim

  31. . . . if you read The Economist instead GQ

  32. . . . if you go to the shopping mall to walk, not to shop

  33. . . . if you look forward to sorting your mail and have a system for doing it