You Know You're Living in 2009 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 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 is that they don't have Facebook or MySpace.
6. When you go home after a long day at work, you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
8. You've sat in the same building for four years and worked for three different companies.
9. Your resume is on a disk in your pocket.
10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
11. Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
12. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
13. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in groceries.
14. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
15. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.
16. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in the hospital.
17. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screensaver.
18. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
19. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn't have for the first 10 or 20 or 40 years of life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
22. You consider second class post painfully slow.
23. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
24. You received this from a friend that never talks to you anymore, except to send you jokes from the net.
25. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
