Who me an Internet addict?

A few signs of addiction:

-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 have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's .
- You 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 (hehehe) .
- you no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences... .
- you have met over 100 AOLers & ICQers .
- 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 (hehehe I used to have that) .
- you wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home from work --Does this count if it is less then 6?? Yikes.....nah it can't... .
- 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 to check ur e-mail on the way back
- .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 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 and HTML .
- being called a newbie is a *MAJOR* insult .
- there is absolutely no interesting chat in 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 .>br> - 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 b/c 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 - 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! (LOL) you're hooked.