Screen Names

Isn't it weird that when we were young all our screen names had azn or lil or swt in them? Like every guy was lilgangstah17 or azianboi8 and every girl was aznbaby6 or swtdoll414? Despite Asians being the most populous people on the planet we somehow all managed to have unique screen names that sounded and looked exactly the same. Scrolling thru my old buddylist (I was aznknite24) I realized that if I sorted them all alphabetically (shout out to excel for training me to automatically sort everything) they would all start with 'A', 'L', 'S', or 'X'. The 'X' were for those that couldn't get the 'AzN' screen name that they wanted and all the subsequent variations of pager code substitutions were taken, so they just added more and more X's at the ends. ie. 'xXAzNBoIXx' or 'xoxoStaRgu12Lxoxo'.

Also, I guess we were all a lot more trusting back then because the numbers at the end of our screen names were without fail, our birthdays. Because face it, at age 13 our birthday was the most important number in our lives. We didn't have anniversaries or deaths of loved ones to worry about, and mom's phone number was just too long to tack onto the end of our screen name. BabYcaKes4438035 just didn't quite flow. Hence I now only remember my friends' birthdays through their screen names. swtdoll414? E-card sent on April 14th. lilmel56? text message sent at midnight May 6th. Count on it. But to the friends that I've made since high school I apologize. I'll never be able to wish you a happy birthday because of our transformation from our baggy pants wearing, Marvel vs. Capcom playing selves to the express 1MX shirt wearing, happy hour going yuppies we are now. Gchat just doesn't quite encourage anything less than our given names. Instead of choosing between 'AzN' and 'swT' it's a '.' or '_'. Even our AIM profiles have been limited to gchat statuses. So as homage to our yesteryears I shall sport 'AzNKniTe24' as my gchat status. At least until it once again reverts to 'Ugh.. need coffee.. hungover...'