I thought I'd accentuate my work IM message with a cute clever emoticon, a traditional happy face in some state of feeling. That's when I mistakenly clicked on the "winks" selection and this giant animated laughing woman popped up and was instantly sent to my colleague on the other end.

"what was that?" he shot back.

I was so embarrassed, I went into a hysterical laughing fit (cuz that's what I do) and apologized profusely. Luckily, he didn't label me a dork and proceeded to even the score by sending me a series of other scary winks. Why don't these things have warning labels?!

Just for today, I can IM at work.