yabeyabe2

Take a break from obsessing about your kid's college search to share how obsessed you are with CC!

For example, you know you're addicted to CC when you tell your spouse not to interrupt when you are emailing advice to a student in India! Or when you can relate to a mother's anguish over her child scoring "only" 2100 on the SAT!

Youdon'tsay

When you burn breakfast/lunch/dinner. Or all three.

applicannot

When you go to a college visit and talk about CC, and someone else comes up and shouts their screenname at you. You have an instant understanding of one another.

BunsenBurner

When you need a new pair of shoes and, instead of looking for them on Zappos, you start a new thread in the cafe, then sit back and click on the links posted in the replies

Speaking of CC screen names: when we visited one of the schools that admitted her, my yD who was seriously CC-addicted during her senior HS year drew a cartoon of her CC screen name on her name tag. Several girls recognized it and told her, "Hi Ms. Screenname, I'm Ms. Anotherscreenname!"

Pizzagirl

When someone who used to participate with me on an AOL message board years ago (and my screen name was completely different from this one) recognized me on this one!

FindAPlace

... you are able to guess postings from classmates of your S/D by hints, even if their screen name is completed different from their RL name (done this twice now.)

IloveLA

When you look for threads with dozens of pages, because you know they are going to be entertaining.

ellemenope

You know you're addicted to CC when you look forward to threads in the Cafe about cats and you don't even own a cat!

icylava

When you set CC as your browser home page ... just saying, I am not quite there yet.

R124687

When every piece of advice/information you give your child begins or ends with "that's what someone on CC said!"

(even though I can tell, by the "over 3000" posters on here...I'm still just a rank amateur)

parent56

^^^and when your son who refuses to go on cc, when faced with any question asks "what does someone on cc say"

Consolation

Raises hand.

worknprogress

When you tell your DH that you are considering a clothing purchase that Riverrunner or MofWC suggested - and that Bunsen said she really liked.

atomom

When you have to give it up for Lent every year. Just to prove you "can."

Then, right after Easter, you get back on again. . .

IloveLA

when your daughter has a question and asks you to start a thread about it on CC.