Guest guest Posted March 20, 1999 Report Share Posted March 20, 1999 > Subject: E-Mail Junkie > > >> You know you're an E-mail Junkie when ... > >> > >> 22. You get a sudden illness the day after your modem dies. > >> > >> 21. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. > >> > >> 20. You tell the cab driver you live at > >> " http://1000.edison.garden/house/brick.html. " > >> > >> 19. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you > >> landscape. > >> > >> 18. You don't know what sex three of your closest friends are, because > >> they > >> have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask. > >> > >> 17. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box. > >> > >> 16. You check your mail. It says " no new messages. " So you check it > >> again. > >> > >> 15. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem. > >> > >> 14. Your cat has its own home page. > >> > >> 13. All of your friends have an @ in their names. > >> > >> 12. You start introducing yourself as " Doe at CSi dot com. " > >> > >> 11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading. > >> > >> 10. You find yourself typing " com " after every period when using a word > >> processor.com > >> > >> 9. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You > >> start to > >> twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. > >> You > >> try to hum to communicate with the modem... and you succeed. > >> > >> 8. You start using smileys in your snail mail. : ) > >> > >> 7. You laugh at people with 14000-baud modems. > >> > >> 6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for > >> the > >> free Internet access. > >> > >> 5. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap....and > >> your > >> child in the overhead compartment. > >> > >> 4. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you > >> just > >> pulled the plug on a loved one. > >> > >> 3. You name your child Dotcom. > >> > >> 2. You get a tattoo that reads " This body best viewed with Netscape > >> Navigator > >> 3.0 or higher. " > >> > >> 1. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your > >> e-mail > >> on the way back to bed. > >> > >> > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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