You might be a deals.woot addict...
I saw this over on the wine.woot forums and thought that it would be fun to bring over here.
by
sgoman5674
asked 2 years ago
... if you dream about amber flashing lights.
cound down to the next woot off
If when you shop for yourself you wonder whether the wooters would vote it up.
if you try convincing yourself that uranium ore and tuscan milk are good deals.
...have 10 pair of rotating woot lights on at all times.
- if a Screaming Woot Off Monkey is now a must have on your shopping list
- you spent the money on Woot instead of diapers
- You've added woot apps to your computer and cell phone
- you want to set aside money for the next woot-off
- you actually now consider buying a "box of crap"
- you start to look for deals by your favorite posters
- you no longer worry about posters who have bacon problems
- holiday shopping is now done at Woot
- you want to buy or receive an Offical Woot off hat, shirt, belt etc.
...you compulsively check the Leaderboard statistics
...you read all the comments on every question posted
...you check the Fresh tab on Deals to make sure you didn't miss anything while you were sleeping
...you actually sign up for a Gravity account, because someone else wants an invitation to it
[Edit] @gmartell +++
@shrdlu: Oooooo - did you sign up for a gravity account? You, personally? 'Fess up!
Reading all the comments on every question is a good thing, honest. It means we are more prepared to help others, open-minded, and obviously well-read. I just got my copy of "A Browser's Dictionary" (it doesn't have jularkey in it) and my soil testing kit. @debbiedunlap and I will compare notes!
@sand4me: I am in the process of signing up, not because I care, but because others seem to. It was far easier than the back and forth of sharing email addresses of people I know with other people I know, and startling both of them (I always err on the side of privacy).
Besides, maybe I'll find something entertaining to do with it.
-telling people about your first woot
-actually hear about other people's first woots
-are the office woot informer
...you spend your time trying to reverse engineer the algorithms behind the leaderboard
...you spend your time trying to keep up with what will or will not push a deal/question to Popular
...you think @josefresno is uber because he posted a link to this interesting site (math geeks only, all others please ignore)
http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/07/document-scoringcalculating-relevance_08.html
[Edit] ...you find it entertaining to try and make your comments on the prime number boundaries, especially if they are paired primes
Wait. What was that noise? Oh dear. @hobbit just glazed over and her head hit the desk. :-D
You know you're an addict when your go-to lullaby is singing the theme from the Woot-Offs.
- a bag of crap on your front porch is a good thing
- you get upset that you can't share a really super deal because you it found at a local brick & mortar
- bacon isn't just for breakfast anymore
- none of your new friends have real names
- flashing amber lights don't make you think of tow trucks
@shrdlu: I think you like math just a wee bit. I remember one of my favorite games as a kid was called "Numble." Scrabble with numbers. My folks still have it tucked away, I'm sure.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4737/numble
Edit: Math was always so hard for me. I swear, if there is something called auditory dyslexia, I have it. Some one can call out a number but I SWEAR my brain thinks it's a totally different number. I'm lost if some one gives me their telephone number rapid fire.
-you check what is on deals.woot BEFORE woot
@lavikinga: I am not the only math geek. I think that (among others) @chris12345 is also. Pity I won't be around for 17 and 19; those are my favorite paired primes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime
[Edit] Never mind. Accidentally, but there it is.
@shrdlu: I've always considered myself, and been considered by others, to be somewhat of a math geek, but apparently not nearly as bad as you. Kudos!
-you constantly have open the deals.woot fresh tab and any questions that are active/interesting
-the first thing you do after a meeting at work is check to see what you've missed on deals.woot
When you meet someone, you mention whatever woot (deals, shirt, etc...) is relevant to the conversation. Or bring it up as a new topic.
Think of deals as a warm cozy place to hang out
Shock family members by talking about the whips deal, and all the "other" deals that people bought with it. wink
Find like-minded people who are great bargain hunters!
... if you fear the flounder.
...when your first thought after getting fired from your job because you've spent company time surfing deals.woot is "OH, GOOD! More time to spend on deals.woot!"
@lavikinga: Please tell me this didn't happen to you.
...when you run through your added deals tab to see if any have expired on a daily basis.
@lavikinga: ...and your next thought is "Oh no, no more money to buy stuff off deals.woot." :(
-you recognize a spammer after it posts 3 deals.
...if you work for them.
If you end up spending your drug money on trinkets because they are a good deal and probably worth more than you paid anyway, right?
@sgoman5674 & @reemus:: Nope. Didn't get fired. Unfortunately, I opted not to go into a different job when mine became redundant last year (lateral move, but I would have had to work with the public) and so I really DON'T have a lot of money to spend on deals. I'm also out of storage space. Husband would say THAT'S a win-win.
--You continue to order shirts from woot, even though they have yet to Ever deliver one that wasn't part of a grab bag (Hmmm...)
...you know who the Deals staff main players are, and consider them to be friends
...you prefer hanging out on Deals to watching television..
Oh, wait, that last one doesn't count. I prefer doing almost anything to watching most of what's on television.
If you let everybody know when you are going to bed and to ask to be advised how bad the damage is in the morning.
@sgoman5674: It'll be cleaned up by then. I promise.
[For the curious, the spammers hit the fresh tab on AtW]
[Edit] Actually, it seems to be cleaned up now. Whoever's on the night shift, I love you. Thank you.
...IF YOU REALLY WANT THE TATTLE REPLY BUTTONS TO STOP FLICKERING!
[Wedit] :)
@jumbowoot: You... are funny! :)
@jumbowoot: Pretty please with sugar, cinnamon, glazed icing, orange peel. Must find breakfast now...
@shrdlu: Dang it, I missed it. Did you get screenshots?
Your ten-year-old forwards an email to you with the title: "You might want to post this as a deal."
You get annoyed on regular Woot because you can't vote up a good comment.
You get annoyed that you can't tattle a bad woot-off item away.
@sgoman5674: You compulsively check questions (and deals) that you've commented on, just in case someone makes a new and REALLY FUNNY comment that you hadn't seen.
I not only want to tattle bad wootoff items away, I constantly want to vote the good ones up. Nope. No can do.
If your F5 key is breaking from refreshing Deals and AtW tabs...
@lordwoot: I see your F5 refresh, and raise you a replace the keyboard from accidental coffee sprays over laughing.
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