the year 2002

[Guest guest]

SIGNS YOU LIVE IN THE YEAR 2002...>> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.>> 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family> of three.>> 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?">> 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> 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 turning around to go get it.>> 12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make> a purchase would be a hassle and take 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 second-day air delivery painfully slow.>> 16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.>> 17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored> Post-it notes.>> 18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of> in person.>> 19. You get an extra phone line (or a ADSL/cable modem)> so you can get phone calls.>> 20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this 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