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Signs of the Times - 2001
 You will know you are living in the 21st century
when you see the following signs....
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 yet 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buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells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 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 2am 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!
(Cotributed by Fereshteh Asgari,
Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
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