Top 25 Signs You're Part of the 00's
(that's pronounced "aughts")
(that's pronounced "aughts")
- You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
- 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 emails 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.
- You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant.
- Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking 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- You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
- The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
- Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
- Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
- 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 turn off your Modem and get this awful feeling, as if you just as if you had pulled the plug on a loved one.
- You get up in morning and go online before getting your coffee.
- You wake up at 2am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
- You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
- You're reading this.
- Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else.
(HT - Happy Catholic)
oh dear God... it's all true...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that I'm not the only freak that checks email in the wee smalls just because I'm up. I may be a freak, but I'm not alone.
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