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