KWR: STD will always abbreviate only one thing in my mind

Co-signed.

LOL

I don't like it, but I've used it. Save the date is just so long to type lol

I felt the same lol!

Exactly!

I thought the same thing! I wish there was a better abbreviation!

I get that it is shorter to type, I just can't get past what I think of every time I see it though.

It's also an abbreviation for Short Term Disability. It made me chuckle the first couple of times...then it stopped being funny.

Maybe I am immature Keri

I thought the same thing! I was thought "gross" but now I that's all think of when I see STD is Save The Dates

I am a swimmer and Pacific Master Swimming is abbreviated PMS.

You will see PMS meetings, PMS meets, PMS holiday party in my calendar

My sisters thought I was so weird when I, out of habit, typed "STD and BM" in a text to them.

(BM--Bowel Movement)

ETA: spelling

O&L thats funny. I think my FH would never stop with those types of jokes. I am in the IT field and we do something called penetration testing. I get jokes about that a lot.

Omg. I never even put two and two together! Also now they call them infections so it's STI. Yuck!

That is new to me Ciera. Maybe infection sounds better than disease.

Lol yes!!

I was thinking the same when I first joined lol!

I was instant messaging a coworker at work about the news that he finally proposed to his long time girlfriend. I asked "what about STD's" and he had no clue what I was taking about. I had no clue that he was clueless because STDs have been on my brain for the last month. He said "excuse me". I responded " you need to hurry up and get them" ( they are having a spring DW) and he said "whaaaa?" Finally I called him at his desk to explain the STD term. I told him to use it on his fiancé and she would be impressed. We got a very good belly laugh out of the confusion.

The first few times I logged in I kept having to remind myself that STD meant save the dates and not sexually transmitted diseases.

@Anne that is hilarious! See there are so many ways that using STD in a sentence when you mean save the date, can sound horrible if someone thinks you mean sexually transmitted disease.