Subject: You Know You're Living in 21st Century When
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 07:03:22 EDT
"You Know You're Living in 21st Century When"
. Your reason for not staying in touch with family
is because they do not have e-mail addresses.
. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach
your family of three.
. You call your son's beeper to let him know
it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his
bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her
web site..
. You chat several times a day with a stranger
from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with
your next door neighbor yet this year.
. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken
noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG
file of your newborn so she can create a screen
saver.
. You pull up in your own driveway and use your
cell phone to see if anyone is home.
. Every commercial on television has a web site
address at the bottom of the screen.
. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out
of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which
you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life,
is now a cause for panic and you turn around to
go get it.
. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to
make a purchase would be a hassle and takes
planning.
. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the
fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
. You just tried to enter your password on the
microwave.
. You consider second day air delivery painfully
slow.
. Your dining room table is now your flat filing
cabinet.
. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored
Post-it notes.
. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead
of in person.
. You get an extra phone line so you can get
phone calls.
. You disconnect from the Internet and get this
awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on
a loved one.
. You get up in morning and go on-line before
getting your coffee.
. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and
check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
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