20 Ways to know you're a BBS addict

 1. When  your  youngster  saw the cover art for "So Much Modem Madness" did
    he/she yell out "DA DA"?

 2. Is your idea of family quality time a tour of Bell Labs?

 3. No matter what baud modem you own, (even 14.4k) do you wish you had  one
    that was faster?

 4. Has  your  wife  or  girlfriend  ever  left for more than 3 days and you
    didn't even know they were gone?

 5. Is your phone bill so large it gets delivered by UPS?

 6. Have you ever left tearful announcements on Long-distance  BBSs  telling
    everyone you couldn't afford to call anymore, then kept checking back to
    see if anyone had responded?

 7. Has your phone company sent you hand written thank-you notes?

 8. When you return from vacation, do you get a call from your phone company
    asking if everything is all right?

 9. Have you ever cancelled a date cause he/she wants a  late  night  dinner
    when the phone rates are lowest?

10. Do  you call during the morning hours, knowing the rates are the highest
    with the excuse that "at least I will be able to get on?"

11. Do you own a back-up generator so you can run your  computer  even  when
    the power company can't?

12. Have you ever logged on to a BBS, and then realized you didn't know what
    City, State, or Country it was in?

13. Can  you log onto a BBS, Browse, and log off without ever having to turn
    the monitor on?

14. Are the words ON LINE burnt into your monitor screen?

15. Do you know more about what is going on in the lives of  the  people  in
    the BBS community than you do about the people you live with?

16. Does your hard drive contain more files than any of the BBSs you call?

17. Do you compete with others to be the #1 user on every BBS you call?

18. Have you ever called a BBS at 4:00am, found it was offline, then  called
    the sysop just in case they didn't know?

19. Do you page sysops into chat, even though you see the message 'sysop not
    available' again and again, because you think that maybe they will  make
    an exception for you?

20. Are  you  late  for  work/school  in  the  morning because you insist on
    answering all 235 netmail messages you've received?