16 signs you have entered the 00's
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 Pager to let him know it's time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
4.. 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.
5.. Your grandmother clogs up your email inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
6.. You pull up in your own driveway and use your own cell phone to see if anyone is home.
7.. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
8.. Your reason for not staying in touch with your family is that they do not have email addresses.
9.. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
10.. Your idea of being organised is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
11.. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
12.. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
13.. You turn off your Modem and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
14.. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
15.. You're reading this.
16.. Even worse: You're going to forward it to someone else.
"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." -- John Burroughs