Addicted To AOL

You Might Be Addicted to AOL if...

- Tech Support calls "You" for help

- Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL

- You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other

- You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out"

- You have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's

- You've ever typed "drinking on AOL is better than drinking alone"

- You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it

- You no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences

- You begin to say heh heh heh instead of laughing

- When someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!"

- You sneak away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep

- You know more about your AOL friends daily routines than you do your own family's

- You lie 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 would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much instead of the truth (all night on-line)

- You're broke, your modem burns out and you go out onto the streets to sell your body to get a new one

- You marry your cyberboyfriend and you both sit at your own computers and chat to each other every night from across the room

- 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

- You sign on and immediately get 10 messages from people who have you on their buddy lists

- You look at an annoying person off-line and wish you had your ignore button handy

- You have withdrawls if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours

- You use AOL lingo in everyday life (if you still have one...hehehe)

- 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 wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to sign on

- 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 computer instead

- 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

- Being called a newbie is a MAJOR insult

- You are on the phone for a minute and need to do something else you say "BRB" or "BBL"

- You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone in a room

- You've gone into an unstaffed tech support room and given tech support to other AOLers

- You have to be pryed from your computer with the Jaws-of-Life

- You meet people from AOL in public and have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their screen name

- Your last sexual experience was really just a "textual" experience