Living in 2003

[rh71]

AHHH I'm busy as all hell... but that doesn't mean I can't post a quickie:

>You know you're living in 2003 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 your mate who works at the desk next to you.
>
>5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not
>have e-mail addresses.
>
>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 dial "9"
>   to get an outside line.
>
>8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three
>   different companies.
>
>10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
>
>11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
>
>12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to
>    get long-service awards. and the real clinchers are...
>
>13. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
>
>14. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your
>    "friends".
>15. You got this e-mail from a friend that never talks to you any
>    more, except to send you jokes from the net.
>
>16. You are too busy to notice there was no No. 9.
>
>17. You actually looked up to check that there wasn't a No.
>    9.

 

[Radiohead]

Hmm, I saw this in 2000

 

[fs5]

18. you stopped reading at No. 10 because you got other threads to read.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
18. you stopped reading at No. 10 because you got other threads to read.

Hmm... how'd you know they stopped at 17 to have an 18 ?

 

[MisfitsFiend]

LOL...I actually made a call from home this week and dialed 9 first 🙁

 

>8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three
> different companies.

and...

>3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

Are the funniest. :beer:😀:beer:

 

[rudder]

you know you are living in 2003 when the > character no longer annoys you as it once did because you realize that most people are too lazy to edit the text and its not worth your time to fuss about it.

 

Originally posted by: rudder
you know you are living in 2003 when the > character no longer annoys you as it once did because you realize that most people are too lazy to edit the text and its not worth your time to fuss about it.

You know you're a HUGE geek when you think, "A quick GREP search could take care of those ">" in a couple seconds. And that type of thinking is TIMELESS. 🙂

 

[rocadelpunk]

damn you : P

 

[blackdogdeek]

i've almost answered my home phone with my business greeting.

i've taken out my work id to get into my home door.

 

[Orsorum]

2,3,4,5,7,11,13,14,15,16,17

😱