You know you are living in the year 2003 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 see if anyone is home.

5. Every commercial on television has 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 You buy a computer and 3 months later it's out of date and sells for half the price you paid.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 would 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 (or the pool table).

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.”

“Too damn true to be funny!”

“So true about #17!”

“Phew, I thought I was the only one”

“Count me in as a member of the 'point and click' society”

“ha!! this is my favorite:

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

“No flying cars?”

“21. You look forward to sitting on your couch with a bowl of popcorn while watching American kick the crap out of Iraq and North Korea on all the news channels.”

“ugh! i'll be sitting on the couch with a puke bucket.”

“Odd choice of snack food.”

“LMAO @ Violin!!!”

“LMAO! now that's just NASTY. retch, retch!”

“Dang. Every now and then, Violin gets off a good one.

Listen, Violin, Marvin Gardens called, and said he's like to have the body from six to eight tonight. There's a, X-files marathon going and he wants to catch the one where Skully eats the bug.”

“i do NOT resemble any of them!”

“22. You go for a three day hike in the remote woods with a bunch of people you met on the internet.”

“Best one yet! I thought of this but you beat me to it!”

“I have the problem of that id I don't get my TT fix I get even more nutty then what I am most of the time!

8)”

“Good one Chili!!!”

“23. You were fully prepared for Y2K with extra flashlights and food, after 9/11 you purchased extra gasoline and kerosine in case your city was attacked, but you have no idea when or who an actual threat would come from. You live in a heightened state of awareness.”

“I just saw Bowling for Columbine and Moore makes that very point, Biz. POliticians and the media are out to keep the American public scared! Of everything!”

“24. The person in front of me in the grocery store buys their food with food stamps, yet manage to drive a 2003 Caddy SUV, while I put my mac and cheese in my Malibu.

Can't wait for that tax cut, thanks George!”

“I feel very deeply that the American media is too intertwined with politics. IMO, media should be a neutral purveyor of news--the objective facts. Telling people what they want to hear, or telling people what politicians want us to hear is not news, IMO. If you want actual news, you have to go to European coverage.”

“You forgot to mention that they are also buying smokes and DVD's”

“No, you and I were buying smokes and DVD's for them.”

“25... You know what IMO and LMAO mean”