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You try to enter your password
on the microwave.
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You now think of three espressos
as "getting wasted."
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You haven't played solitaire
with a real deck of cards in years.
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You have a list of 15 phone
numbers to reach your family of 3.
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You e-mail your son in his room
to tell him that dinner is ready, and he emails you back "What's for dinner?"
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Your daughter sells Girl Scout
Cookies via her web site.
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You chat several times a day
with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken to your next-door
neighbor yet this year.
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You didn't give your valentine
a card this year, but you posted one for your email buddies via a Web page.
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Every commercial on television
has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
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You buy a computer and a week
later it is out of date... and now sells for half the price you paid.
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The concept of using real money,
instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
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Cleaning up the dining area
means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
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Your reason for not staying
in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
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Keeping up with sports entails
adding ESPN's home page to your bookmarks.
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You have a "to do list" that
includes entries for lunch and bathroom breaks and they are usually the
ones that never get crossed off.
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You actually faxed your Christmas
list to your parents.
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Pick up lines now include a
reference to liquid assets and capital gains.
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You consider 2nd day air delivery
painfully slow.
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You consider the time it takes
to microwave popcorn even more painful.
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You assume the question to valet
park or not is rhetorical.
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You refer to your dining room
table as the flat filing cabinet.
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Your idea of being organized
is multiple colored post-it notes.
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Your grocery list has been on
your refrigerator so long some of the products don't even exist any more.
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You lecture the neighborhood
kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their profits.
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You get all excited when it's
Saturday and you can wear sweats to work.
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You refer to the tomatoes grown
in your garden as deliverables.
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You find you really need PowerPoint
to explain what you do for a living.
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You normally eat out of vending
machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.
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You think that "progressing
an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable English phrases.
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You know the people at the airport
hotels better than you know your next door neighbors.
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You ask your friends to "think
out of the box" when making Friday night plans.
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You think Einstein would have
been more effective had he put his ideas into a matrix.
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You think a "half-day" means
leaving at 5 o'clock.
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You hear most of your jokes
via email instead of in person
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