You know you're a Sims addict when...
When your computer malfunctions and you suffer withdrawal...
And to add insult to injury, your spouse plays Sims 3 on his/her perfectly good computer in the next room and you start salivating like Pavlov's dog because your hands are inching towards the mouse and the keyboard of your spouse's computer...
...and he/she asks you "what are you doing?"
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...or you have a computer that you're borrowing from your kid...and you get frustrated because you have the Sims 3 on disc and there is no CD-ROM drive. *boo-hiss* What dumb company sells a computer with NO optical drive?