You know you are living in 2003 when..... - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Limited Edition · #1 01-12-2003, 09:51 PM

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

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

3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's
time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom,
"What's for dinner?"

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your
cell phone to see if anyone is home.

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

10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out
of date and now sells for 1/5th the price you paid.

11. 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.

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

13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the
fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.

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

15. You consider second day air delivery painfully slow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

G-Benz · #2 01-13-2003, 10:34 AM

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Originally posted by black 1994 c280
15. You consider second day air delivery painfully slow.

FedEx all the way!!!

jsmith · #3 01-13-2003, 10:47 AM

"2K3"

#4 01-13-2003, 01:33 PM

When 90 percent of the people in your Marketing 301 class in a major land-grant college in the Pacific Northwest own a cell phone and brought it to class. (I was one of them).

-Sam

Hi-Power · #5 01-14-2003, 02:11 AM

When your two daughters ( 16 months and 3 years old ) fight over who gets to use the computer and you have to wait until they go to bed to check the Shop Forum

Time to buy a second one honey... !

G-Benz · #6 01-14-2003, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hi-Power
When your two daughters ( 16 months and 3 years old ) fight over who gets to use the computer and you have to wait until they go to bed to check the Shop Forum

Time to buy a second one honey... !

Add to the list: When your kids are wired more than you are!

Cap'n Carageous · #7 01-14-2003, 10:00 AM

You bite your nails and pace the floor when 'Mercedesshop.com' won't load!!

yal · #8 01-14-2003, 06:09 PM

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Originally posted by 123c
This is true for almost every college and university in the country. I remember when I first started school in 1997, very few students had cell phones, and last year almost every student had one, and brought them to class.

How about those laptops? A little while back f somebody had a laptop in class it was a novelty. Now PDA's and notebooks are common place.

Cap'n Carageous · #9 01-14-2003, 07:50 PM

Somebody asks you what 3 times 37 is and you reply....." My computer is down and I don't have a calculator!!! Check back in an hour"!!!

Piotr · #10 01-14-2003, 11:05 PM

When the priest in your church asks on Sunday morning: "Could you please turn off your phones, pagers , and your kids Gameboys before we start". Hasn't happened yet, but you just wait!

#11 01-14-2003, 11:10 PM

Only a very few people at my school use laptops in class for note-taking; many people use the ancient standby of a pen/pencil and spiral notebook.

They are popular for wireless internet use throughout campus though, I might have to buy a used one with an 802.11b wireless card to take advantage of that.

-Sam