1. The kids, especially the grandchildren, snicker behind your back and wink at each other if they see you sit there with the joystick in hand, between this and last Christmas.2. You deleted 1000 old aircraft files and gained only 5 megs of disk space.3. You deleted the last 10 downloaded aircraft and gained 500 megs of disk space.4. You actually spend more enjoyable hours working in the garden regardless the weather than at the computer staring at simulated gauges getting you nowhere.5. You feel good to do that rather than to fabricate yet another back ailment excuse (headaches were not a good excuse)6. One minute of time spend with a loved one is worth more than an hour of simulated announcements to non-existing crew and pax.7. On a rainy day with no one around you find yourself typing messages like this rather than to start the simulator program.8. You want to read a forum you have to register again.9. Reading forum messages you are mostly amused and ROFL rather than join the discussion.10. You are flamed for a message such as this it doesn't bother you. Because when finally finding the time to login again, the message is a few months deep in the archive.11. You actually use Google to search for work related subjects rather than flight sim stuff.12. Instead of joining a newbie RTFM flame war you rather don't Read The F*** Message.Dedicated to those who scream for your love and attention, until you find it's too late because they are not there anymore... There is a life out there - get off your behind and hug someone!

It brought a tear to my eye..... unfortunately this message is in the wrong forum, so I'll move it tio the Hangar Chat in a few minutes ;-)________________________Francois A. "Navman" DumasAssociate Editor &Forums AdministratorAVSIM Online!email: [email protected]________________________