YOU KNOW IT'S 2006 WHEN:

 1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail.  

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

 3. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a 
 screen saver.  

 4. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to get help with the groceries.  

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

 6. You buy a computer and 3 months later it's out of date and sells for half the price 
 you paid.  

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

 8. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and 
 take planning.  

 9. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.  

 10. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.  

 11. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.  

 12. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.  

 13. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.  

 14. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.  

 15. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the 
 plug on a loved one.  

 16. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee. 

 17. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed.  

 18. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.   :)  

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

 20. Even worse, you know exactly who you are going to forward this to. 

 21. You now think of three espressos as “getting wasted”.

 22. You haven’t played with a real deck of cards in years.
 
 23. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

 24 You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready and he e-mails you back 
 “What’s for dinner?”.

 25. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.

 26. 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.

 27. You didn’t give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your e-mail 
 buddies via a web page.

 28. Your daughter just bought a CD of all the records your college roommate used to play.

 30. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.

 31. You check your blow dryer to see if it’s Y2K compliant.

 32. Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail Inbox, asking you to send her a JPEG file of your 
 newborn so she can create a screensaver.

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

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

 35. 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.

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

 37. 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.

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

 40.  You start tilting your head sideways to smile    : )

 41. You are too busy to notice there was no #29 on this list.

 42. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't #29 on this list.

      -All Sad but True!