Living in 2006

Gordon McLean says:

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 three.

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’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

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

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

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

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

I don’t have a mobile phone, but you could substitute the term “PDA” at #8 and it’d certainly apply to me. I had to go without my Palm for about six weeks late last year and it felt as if I’d been lobotomised, so I’d definitely turn round and get it in the event that I forgot to pick it up on my way out.

#6 can’t be saved: I don’t have a car so I just carry my groceries home the old-fashioned way.

Surely #12 is a bit 1999? Wouldn’t “You’re going to post this on your weblog the first chance you get” be a better fit for 2006?