You feel your heart drop every single time a FedEx truck drives past without stopping.
You get your box cutter out first thing on delivery day just so it's ready when the gadget arrives.
You can't concentrate on anything while waiting for the gadget delivery person.
You go over everything you need to build your new system multiple times while waiting for it.
You stop in your tracks every few minutes every time you hear a truck drive down the street.
You greet the UPS man brusquely because he's not the FedEx guy.
You plug in all the peripherals for the new gadget before it even arrives.
You keep checking the delivery status online every 15 minutes just to make sure it hasn't changed.
You make a list for everything you need to install on the new system and the order you need to do so.
You rearrange every plug in the power strip just to make sure there is room for one more.
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More about "hopeless geek"
The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person, especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, gaming, etc."[1] Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat, snake or bugs. The 1976 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary included only the definition regarding geek shows.
This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German. The root geck still survives in Dutch gek: crazy, and in the Alsatian word Gickeleshut: geek's hat, used in carnivals.
