Modern living
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You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
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You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
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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?”
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Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
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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.
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You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
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You check your blow-dryer to see if it’s Y2K compliant.
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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.
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You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
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Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
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You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
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The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
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Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
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Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
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You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
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Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
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Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
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You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
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You’re reading this.
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Even worse; you’re going to forward it to someone else.