Evidence that you live in the year 2002



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 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 e-mails 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 Burundi 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 new 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 website address at the bottom
    of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it's out of date and now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 requires 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
    don't 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 the morning and go on-line 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 thinking how true all of this is.
25. ...even worse, you're probably going to (save it and) forward it 
    to someone else!


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