A little English humour - October 2003
Have you had too much of the 21st Century?
Here are 20 signs to look for…
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with a real pack of cards for years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of only 3 people.
4. You call your son's mobile phone to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
5. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her website.
6. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbour yet this year.
7. You didn't give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your e-mail buddies via a web page.
8. Your daughter just bought a CD of all the records your college roommate used to play.
9. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains echinacea.
10. 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.
11. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
12. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
13. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
14. The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
15. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
16. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
17. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
18. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
19. Your idea of being organized is multiple-coloured Post-it notes.
20. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
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