25 Signs That You've Already Had Too Much Of The 21st Century


1. You just tried to enter your password on the
microwave.

2. You now think of three espressos as "getting
wasted."

3. You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of
cards in years.

4. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your
family of three.

5. 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?"

6. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her
website.

7. 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.

8. You didn't give your valentine a card this year, but
you posted one for your e-mail buddies via a web page.

9. Your daughter just bought a CD of all the records
your college roommate used to play.

10. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken
noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.

11. You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K
compliant.

12. 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.

13. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell
phone to see if anyone is home.

14. Every commercial on television has a web-site
address at the bottom of the screen.

15. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of
date and now sells for half the price you paid.

16. The concept of using real money, instead of credit
or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.

17. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast
food bags out of the back seat of your car.

18. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is
that they do not have e-mail addresses.

19. You consider second-day air delivery painfully
slow.

20. Your dining room table is now your flat filing
cabinet.

21. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored
Post-it notes.

22. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of
in person.

24. You're reading this.

25. Even worse... you're going to forward it to someone
else.