Child of the 90's
Posted by: clean-hewmor <clean-hewmor@...>
You try to enter your password on the microwave.
You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready,
and he emails you back "What's for dinner?"
Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't
spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
You didn't give a valentine, Christmas card, Easter card, Passover Card, Hanukah
card this year, but you posted one for each of your email buddies via a Web
page.
You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains
Echinacea.
Your daughter just bought a C.D. of all the records your high school friends
used to play.
You check your blow dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant.
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.
You pull up in your own driveway and use your cellphone to see if anyone is
home.
You know the words and original artists to all the latest commercials playing
retro songs --- which your kids think are new jingles.
You spend more time checking your e-mails than checking the regular mail, the
TV guide, and the refrigerator.
More people have gotten an email greeting from you this year than Christmas
cards in the last five.
You send this e-mail to more people than you'll say "hello" to all day long.