...Tech Support calls YOU for help.

...Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL"

...You watch T.V. with the closed captioning turned on.

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

...Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome .

...You want to meet a girl/guy and your first impulse is to turn on your.
computer

...You've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face

...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've ever typed "drinking on Chat is better than drinking alone"

...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 Chat people

...You begin to say "heh heh heh" 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 alseep

...You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know you are
on-line again

...You know more about your Chat friends daily routines than you do your
own spouse's

...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 a nickname 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 change nickname's so much that you have to get your profile to see
who you are

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

...You open your home to 15 strangers for a week merely because they have
computers and cool nicknames

...Your kids are standing at your side saying "mommy, please come cook
dinner" and you would rather type another "LOL"

...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 are doing things more and more that you swore you would never, ever
do when you first found chat

...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 (::cringe::)

...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 withdrawls if you are away from the puter for more than a few
hours

...You use Chat 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

...Your worst comeback to a bully is "I'll slap you with a rubber chicken."

...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 to inject No-Doz into your butt to keep it awake

...You don't know where the time has gone

...You end sentences with three (or more) periods while writing letters in
pen/pencil

...You get up at 2am to go the bathroom but go turn on your computer
instead

...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 nickname
and I will TTYL"

...You type faster than you think

...You got your psychiatrist addicted on Chat too and are now undergoing
therapy in private rooms instead of at his office

...You want to be buried with your computer when it dies...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

...Neing 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 Chat 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 withdrawls 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 Chatters

...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 Chat in public and have no idea what their real name
is, so you call them by their nickname