You knor you are living in 2008 when...

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rvb

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1. You accidentally enter your PIN 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 three.

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 even 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 forward this message.

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

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

~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~

NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to!

 
Was just discussing with my 60+ yo friends. But you know, I like this time in our lives. Thanks rvb!

 
Some of you may find this amusing...

Last night my orchestra played Dvorak's 8th Symphony and my stand partner, a graduate student, and I were discussing several recordings of the piece. I mentioned one he didn't know, and I said it was an LP. The following conversation ensued:

Josh giggled and said "LPs?" (Much as I would have giggled in college if anyone would have talked about playing the victrola, I'm sure.)

I told him CDs didn't appear until I was a doctoral student.

"How many "LPs" do you have?"

"Hundreds."

"And do you have an 'LP' player?"

"It's called a turntable."

Kids!

I have an old-fashioned manual wall calendar above my desk so I can quickly see project dates at a glance. It's right above my monitor. I have caught myself on more than one occasion trying to point and click dates on the wall calendar with my mouse as I'm looking at it.

Last week, the electric was off and I couldn't drive into the garage because the door wouldn't go up, so I had to get out of my car outside and go to the front door. I stood there clicking my auto key on my key ring at the door before I realized what I was doing and needed to manually put a key into the lock.

This is getting scary.

 
That's funny Richard. When my daughter was taking ballet as a young child,

the teacher would sometimes use music on LP for some of their exercises. One day, one of the other 5 years old commented to the teacher, "That sure is a big CD!" Oh my.

 
You got me thinking of similar things like laser discs, skate keys, bonomo's Turkish taffy...

Mrs Wagner's pies, tops, spotlights on cars, caring neighbors, buster brown shoes, penny candy, caps, Soupy Sales, Cocoa Marsh, Keds, cheap gas, hickies (I guess they still have those), Krazy Kat cartoons, Beany and Cecil, charlotte rouse, etc, etc, etc.

 
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