LOL

Who'd have ever thought - more than ten years ago when we were all chatting - that there would come a time when it was acceptable to put "LOL" in a professional email?

Or that there'd be a chat client available to everyone in the office, regularly used for ad-hoc enquiries (which we used to do by phone) and that we'd be happily LOLling away in there too, not to mention adding smilies and whatnot.

Funny  how things change. OK, we're not yet at the level of doing a ROFLMAOPMPTIME during the working day (thank God!), but surely it can only be a matter of time. Retirement beckons, I think, before all dignity is lost.