Chris, you have no idea how long it took me to figure out what lol means. I was sitting at my desk and when I had the epiphany, I said to myself, God, you are really stupid. I kept getting emails from people, but I wouldn't ask what lol meant, because sometimes the message wasn't all that funny.

When I had my first job at 18 for a large corporation in NYC, I had no knowledge of corporate abbreviations. I had a boss I hated and when I would go into his office to get papers from the outbasket, he would have F/U on everything. Being the genius I was, I thougt he was cursing me out and I would think what's his fff'n problem? It finally dawned on me he wanted to Follow Up!! I look back and think how could I have ever been so dumb. Now I share this embarrasing story with everyone.