23 SIGNS THAT ITS
A NEW MILLENNIUM
- You just tried to enter your password on the microwave
- You now think of 3 espressos as "getting wasted"
- You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in
years
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of
3
- You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to
eat. He emails you from his bedroom to ask "what's for
dinner?"
- Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site
- You chat several times a day to a stranger in South
Africa, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this
year
- You didn't give your Valentine a card this year, but
you posted one for all your email buddies via a web page
- Your daughter just bought a cd of all the records your
college roommate used to play
- You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle
soup to see if it contains echinacea
- You check your hair dryer to see if it is Y2K compliant
- Your grandmother clogs up your email inbox, asking
you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can make a screensaver
- You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to
see if anyone is home
- Every commercial on television has a web-site address at
the bottom of the screen
- You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and
sells for half the price you paid for it
- The concept of using real money. instead of credit or
debit. is foreign to you
- Cleaning up the dining room means taking the fast food bags
out of the back seat of your car
- Your reason for nor staying in touch with family members is
that they don't have email addresses
- You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow
- Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet
- Your idea of being organized is having multi-colored
Post-it notes
- You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in
person
- You are reading this
