YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006

when...

1.You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they
don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone
is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the
first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn
around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this
list.

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

Okay, so it's a little hokey, but I thought it was funny. Chuck forwarded this one to me. The other mass forward I got yesterday wasn't quite as amusing.

First of all I would never forward a chain-mail type email to a list of friends. Every time I get one of those I groan. Here are some of the reasons:


1.As a former IT network professional, I know that if everyone on a network forwards an email to say, eight people, the number of emails grows exponentially and you have network traffic problems.

2. Those type of chain-mail emails usually contain an unsubstantiated "urban-myth" story. I know enough to be skeptical of these "facts".

3. What I really hate is that they almost inevitably include a threat with a curse attached if you don't mindlessly forward along this piece of trash. I don't think so.

4. The one I received yesterday wasn't the typical "forward this to sixteen friends or you will be sorry" but at the end of an unsubstantiated story was included this nice ditty: "If you don't forward this message, you have no soul." Oh please, is that supposed to motivate me? I don't think so...