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- SIGNS YOU LIVE IN THE YEAR 2003
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- Ripped from the Web
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- 1. You just tried to enter your
- password on the microwave.
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- 2. You have a list of 15 phone
- numbers to reach your family of
- three.
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- 3. 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?"
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- 4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout
- Cookies via her web site.
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- 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.
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- 6. You check the ingredients on a can
- of chicken noodle soup to see if
- it contains Echinacea.
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- 7. Your grandmother asks you to send
- her a JPEG file of your newborn so
- she can create a screen saver.
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- 8. You pull up in your own driveway
- and use your cell phone to see if
- anyone is home.
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- 9. Every commercial on television has
- a web-site address at the bottom
- of the screen.
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- 10. You buy a computer and 6 months
- later it is out of date and now
- sells for half the price you paid.
- (I think WE have found an answer
- to this problem!)
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- 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
- turning around to go back and get
- it.
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- 12. Using real money, instead of
- credit or debit, to make a
- purchase would be a hassle and
- take planning.
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- 13. Cleaning up the dining room means
- getting the fast food bags out of
- the back seat of your car.
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- 14. Your reason for not staying in
- touch with family is that they do
- not have e-mail addresses.
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- 15. You consider second-day air
- delivery painfully slow.
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- 16. Your dining room table is now
- your flat filing cabinet.
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- 17. Your idea of being organized is
- multiple-colored Post-it notes.
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- 18. You hear most of your jokes via
- e-mail instead of in person.
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- 19. You get an extra phone line so
- you can get phone calls.
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- 20. You disconnect from the internet
- and get this awful feeling, as if
- you just pulled the plug on a
- loved one.
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- 21. You get up in morning and go
- online before getting your coffee.
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- 22. You wake up at 2am to go to the
- bathroom and check your E-mail on
- your way back to bed.
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- 23. You start tilting your head
- sideways to smile. :)
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- DAVE'S AFTERTHOUGHT: Is it me, or has
- science fiction become rather humdrum?
- I mean, all those great gadgets are
- real now. And guess what -- people
- still don't know where Joy comes from!
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- DMM
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