8. All Of Your Shelf Space Is Suddenly Taken Up With Doctor Who Stuff
Imagine that the relationship is going well (hey, you're dating a Whovian, so why wouldn't it?), and you're now at the living together stage or you're even married. But watch out, there are going to be some consequences to sharing space with a Doctor Who fan, and those consequences are going to irk the bejesus out of you. For a start, you're both probably big readers, because Doctor Who fans are typically highly cultured and people tend to select partners with the same priorities in life. So there's going to be a turf war over the limited amount of shelf space available, and this struggle for shelf territory is going to get ugly really fast. Why? Because, no matter how much of a library the non-fan has succeeded in accumulating, the Whovian has the upper hand. There are hundreds of Doctor Who books, from novelisations of the classic episodes (with variant covers and foreign editions to collect also) to original novels for all of the Doctors and all of the annuals and collected comics editions and, oh, there's non fiction, too. And several feet of DVD boxes to carefully line up in the right order. And audio adventure CD cases to stack up. And the models and figurines have to go somewhere. And then there are the fan-produced charity anthologies, each one usually the size of a small breeze block... And, no, "in boxes under the stairs where I don't have to look at them" is not an acceptable response to the question of where to put all this precious stuff.