Thread: how did we live without computers????

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 emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?
6. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site
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 website 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 You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid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 don’t 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

I can especially relate to: #'s 4 & 21....

Hello...

I can espically relate to the last one regarding getting all jokes via e-mail instead of in person! In fact, I'm receiving all of them from my mom and saving them in a speical folder to put on my web site! LOL!!!

Terri

ha! I can relate to number 13 lol

Good one!...One thing I find is I sit at my desk with a huge notebook full of jots of different ideas,sites,gotta' remembers,snail addresses, and cant find anything I need at the time unless I sit and study the whole notebook.
It once took me 15min. to find my sons snail address!...
envelopes of recieved mail even a few never used...notes notes notes...none of which Ive refered back to!...lol

22. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person......
.... Seems to be very true and could also be especially true of annoying commical lists.
Forgive me, just my dry humour at work :)