YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2012 when...

[Guardian]

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 share this message.

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

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

 

[bngenoh]

These:

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

[...]

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

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

got me pecked out to a tee, they were exactly what i did. :D

Thanks for sharing Guardian, that was a good chuckle.

 

[Kaigen]

:D first class you got me too. :D

 

[Muxel]

I was expecting something catastrophe-related but this is funny. :D (Although #11 gives me the He-B-G-B's)

 

[ocean59]

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

, reminds me of the time I spent working in a mega-office. Everyone would do this all the time, before Facebook and Myspace, and with 20+ business e-mails a day it would get so ridiculous. Everyone was within a very short walking distance for the most part, if not already within direct line of sight!

Good list. :)

 

[SeekinTruth]

 

[pete02]

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.

That's the one that really gets me. People nowadays act like they can't do a thing without having the darn cell phone with them or being on it for that matter, when in reality most of us grew up without these devices and got along just fine. Every time I get stuck driving behind someone who's on the phone I long for the old days when these things didn't exist!

Great list Guardian.. thanks for the laugh!

 

[Laura]

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


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..


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.


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


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

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

Got me on these.

Well, almost. I turn on the computer and then make my tea while it is booting.

We have an internal communication system network because the house is so big. Saves a lot of time.

And... I do often call the house when I arrive at the gate so that someone will take the dogs in and to let Ark know I'm back because he is upstairs at the back of the house and won't know otherwise.

P.S. didn't have to scroll up to check as it was all displayed on the screen at once...

 

[knowledge_of_self]

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


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..


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.


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


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

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

haha got me on these as well! lol! I still do play solitaire with cards once in a while though :P

 

[GAIA]

HaHA very funny! Every morning here is hectic having 3 young children and getting them ready for school etc but I still find those 10 minutes to turn on my computer and glimpse over Sott with my coffee

 

[Mrs. Peel]

Those ARE funny. Especially when I can remember back when our family had a "party line" which meant that you could pick up your telephone (which was a rotary, corded landline) and hear the family next door talking to somebody else. I remember way back in the late 80s early 90s being down at the boat dock, and someone had a rare "mobile" phone which came in a box as big as a suitcase, and we called for a pizza from the dock. Wow, we thought that was the coolest thing in the world then!

 

[Guardian]

Those ARE funny. Especially when I can remember back when our family had a "party line" which meant that you could pick up your telephone (which was a rotary, corded landline) and hear the family next door talking to somebody else. I remember way back in the late 80s early 90s being down at the boat dock, and someone had a rare "mobile" phone which came in a box as big as a suitcase, and we called for a pizza from the dock. Wow, we thought that was the coolest thing in the world then!

Yup LOL

I remember my first "bag phone" which could have also qualified as a lethal weapon.

 

[Zadius Sky]

Thanks for a laugh. I've seen these in others but some doesn't apply to me.

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.

This happened to me alot over 3 or so years ago but now I don't even think about whatever or not I have my cell phone on me nor there is a need (no one talks to me on the phone for over a year).

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

Guilty! Except for the coffee thing to which I've never drink in my life. But getting online is the first thing "to do" in the morning.

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

 

[Beau]

Yeah, I'm guilty too. This reminds me of Louis CK and his rants about our current generation and how blind they are to how much the world has changed in the last 20 years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk&feature=player_embedded

 

[GAIA]

LOL thank you Heimdallr for that great link, I laughed out loud the whole time! Love the airplane bit..... ahhh all that laughing felt good thanks!