-Tech Support
calls you for help.
-Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL
-You watch T.V. with the closed cationing turned on
-You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out"
-Three words: Carpal tunnel syndrome
-You have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's
-You have ever joined "Si habla Espanol"(spanish chat room) "just to
work on my spanish"
-You go into labor and you stop to type a special e-mail letting everyone
know you are going to be away
-You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it
-You no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete
sentences...
-You have met over 100 AOLers
-You begin to say hehehe instead of laughing
-When someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!"
-You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the
night when your spouse is asleep
-You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know
you are on-line again
-You know more about your AOL friends daily routines than you do your
own spouses
-You find yourself lying to others about your time on-line and when
they complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook
-You have an identity crisis if someone else is using an s/n close to
your own
-You change s/n's so much that you have to get your profile to see who
you are
-You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at
the same time
-You won't work at a job that doesn't have a modem involved
-Your dog leaves you
-you have to ask what year it is
-you write a letter like this..."dear tom, hiyas! how r u doin well
i gotta go bbl!"
-you name your pets after people you talk to
-you smile sideways
-you sign on and immediately get 10 messages from people who have you
on their buddy lists
-you have a map on the wall with red thumbtacks to mark where people
you have met are
-you look at an annoying person off-line and wish you had your ignore
button handy
-you bring a bag lunch and a cooler to the puter
-you have withdrawals if you are away from the puter for more than a
few hours
-you use AOL lingo in everyday life (if you still have one...hehehe)
-you take a speed reading course to keep up with the scrolling
-your buddy list has over 100 people on it
-you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get on-line
before you have your first cup of coffee
-you have your puter set up so that it goes directly into AOL's welcome
screen
-you wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home
from work
-you don't know where the time has gone
-you end sentences with three(or more) periods while writing letters
in pen/pencil
-your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have
had
-you get up at 2am to go the bathroom but go turn on your puter
-you spell things out loud instead of actually saying the word
-you don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo
-when you enter a room and 23 people greet you with {{{Hugs}}} or ***Kisses***
-you stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme
-your voicemail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n and
I will TTYL"
-you type faster than you think
-you want to be buried with your computer when you die...or vice versa
-you actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted
-you can actually read and follow all the names of the cast that scrolls
up your tv-screen at the end of a movie
-people say, if it weren't for your super reflexes in your eyes and
fingers, you would have long been classified as a vegetable
-you dream in text
-being called a newbie is a *MAJOR* insult
-there is absolutely no interesting chat any room and you are really
bored....yet you don't want to leave in case you miss something
-you double click your tv remote
-you can now type over 70 wpm
-you think about starting a 12 step recovery group for AOL junkies
-you are on the phone for a minute and need to do something else you
say "BRB" or "BBL"
-you check your e-mail and forget you have real mail aka snail mail
-you go into withdrawals during dinner
-you spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone
in a room
-you stop speaking in full sentences
-you have gone into an unstaffed tech support room and ended up "giving"
tech support to other AOLers
-you have to be pried from your computer with the Jaws-of-Life
-you set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted
to "check your mail" and while you were there you "just wanted to see
who's on"
-you meet people from AOL in public and have no idea what their real
name is, so you call them by their s/n
-you have a book to keep track what e-mail you have sent to whom because
your e-mail box can't hold them all.
-everytime you come on line you have at least 5 if not 15 e-mails waiting
for you and you check it 2 to 3 times a day.
-it takes you over an hour to answer all your e-mail
-you have over 10 or more chat rooms on you favorites places list
-have 5 different s/n all for your self because you need the e-mail
space
-you read this whole list!
Addicted
to AOL
