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"Well, I talk to these other runners on the internet..."
followed by
"No,no it's not a chat room really it's just about running stuff and problems we have. But there is a place called the Drk Side..."
ending in
"It really is interesting, don't leave yet I just want to talk for a while before I go back in"
Well I have my own laptop, office and 'phone line, so much of my forum activity is invisible to my other half. Anyway, should he ever challenge me I have the perfect retort after I used HIS pc one day and found out what sites he'd been looking at!! (wasn't snooping, honest, serves him right for having the History screen on display!)
I have mentioned the forum, especially when I was meeting my first forumite for coffee (Lamb, where have you got to?)
It's not as invisible as I'd like to think however - my kids are fond of telling people whenever the subject of running comes up: 'she's always on the Runners World website'!
<falls on knees and grovels>
...just a couple that Mr has picked up on and recalls with great hilarity tinged with scorn.....
..he thought I was mad when I ironed my snail onto my running gear!
..still friends?
He made my buy my own and then networked it to the internet
He made a rod for his own back, so cant complain(he does)
I remember him on the internet for hours, and days at a ime
I started to think i had no marriage
Now I probably spend more time on here than him, as he has to go to school
When I meet forumites for drinks, again I use my running club as a smokescreen, I don't want friends/relatives/workmates logging on and reading all my chat to my running buddies!
When I met my boyfriend 3 months or so ago, I very quickly told him as we had a race meet and we had it splashed all over our running vests. He has mentioned that he'll log on and read what I write sometime as he wonders what I get up to (What? Er nothing darling....) He hasn't said anything to me yet whether he actually has or not. To be honest if he did, it would be a bit like snooping and checking up on me and he might as well read all my emails, post and texts, or earwigging when I'm on the phone. I do muck about a lot on here, all be it harmlessly and in the support of friends etc., and if he ever complained he'd probably get an ear bashing from me for being such a sneak.
Do I read his texts/post/emils etc.,? NO. So why should he.
Rant over
May I also point out that there are real people on the end of all these screen-names, and this is just another means of communication?
I can understand that if you spend all your time chatting to friends and ignoring your family, they would feel a bit miffed, but hey, we can do that with the telephone as well if we are that way inclined. And this is better entertainment than tv.
Mrs Rat (oh how she'd cringe to hear me referring to her as such) calls me 'Geek Boy'.
As in 'on your running site again Geek Boy'
Hey maybe a new nickname here?
We have to have a PC each cause we just couldn't share. I think he is pleased to see me here cause it makes him feel less sad!
Hubbie is the one who stays up till 2am every day on the PC so despite my RW addiction I'm still an PC widow.
Lindi
Actually, it's the kids who are appalled at the time I spend here. I guess they have been well trained at school to think that forums are wicked, and on the whole I am not minded to lead them to think otherwise. When challenged I simply say Or?, and they go quiet again. There's always worse that Mama could be doing.
My housemates are all on the internet as well - there is only one net connection (ADSL) in the house, we have set up a LAN to share it. geek-tastic
Well, I ot stopping
ive had more support from you lot in 5 months than ive EVER had from him