SIGNS
YOU LIVE IN THE YEAR 2007...
1.
You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach
your family.
3. You call your son's cell to let him know it's
time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom,
"What's for dinner?"
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her
web site.
5. 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.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken
noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG
file of your newborn so she can create a screen
saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your
cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web-site
address ! at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer, and 6 months later it is
out of date and now sells for half the price you
paid.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which
you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your
life, is cause for panic, and you turn around to
go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit,
to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the
fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family
is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider 2nd-day air delivery painfully
slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing
cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multicolored
Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead
of in person.
19.
You ignore the house phone, cause everyone calls
you on your cell
20. You disconnect from the internet and get an
awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on
a loved one.
21.
You get up in morning and go online before getting
your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and
check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
24. You're reading this.
25. Even worse: you're going to forward it to someone
else.