23. People you eat out with get exasperated when you try to determine what exactly is in the food you are ordering. (If it were an allergy, it would be fine, but since it’s a choice, it’s weird.)

24. You are tired of your vegan lifestyle being the big topic of conversation at EVERY business dinner you ever attend.

25. When your relatives hear you are vegan, they say,”Oh, what about your boyfriend. Is he normal?”

26. Your grandmother, after hearing you are a vegetarian, tries to sneak some lamb into your food, because she knows that if you just tasted it, you’d realize meat was okay.

27. People just don’t understand that caring for animals doesn’t mean you think they’re more important than humans, just that they are AS important.

28. The ever popular question: “Well, what DO you eat?”

29. The constant quizzing of what you do and do not eat–as though these people that just found out you are vegan are going to somehow find a loop hole where you actually aren’t and you just didn’t know it.

30. The vegetarian option at the restaurant is a grilled cheese sandwich, grilled on the same grill they’re grilling the burgers & steaks on.

31. Always having to answer “Why don’t you eat meat?” In spite of all the reasons I could cite, the truth is that I just don’t want to, and I shouldn’t have to justify it every day of my life.

32. Being told: “You can pick the meat off.”

33. You think that you are the last of the unicorns, and your heart flutters whenever someone says the word “vegan”. You think, “Maybe there are others out there…”