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    1. E-Mail Junkie
    2. Sorry to those of you that receive more than one copy of this. I got this from another list and thought it was so funny! Sure fits me, especially the last day or so. Sara Plano, Texas > >You know you're an email junkie when . . . > >You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email >on >the way back to bed. > >You get a tatoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator >3.0 >or higher." > >You name your child Dotcom. > >You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just >pulled >the plug on a loved one. > >You spend half the plane trip with your laptop on your lap. . .and your >child >in the overhead compartment. > >You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two just for the > free internet access. > >You laugh at people with 14000-baud modems. > >You start using smileys in your snail mail. : ) > >Your hard drive crashes You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to >twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your rsp's access number. >You >try to hum to communicate with the modem. . .and you succeed. > >You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word >processor.com > >You refer to going to the bathroom as "downloading." > >You start introducing yourself as "'JohnDoe at CSi dot com." > >All of your friends have an @ in their names. > >Your cat has its own home page. > >You can't call your mother. . .she doesn't have a modem. > >You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again. > >Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box. > >You don't know what gender three of your closest friends are because they >have >neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask. > >You move into a new house and you decide to Netscape before you >landscape. > >You tell the cab driver you live at >"http://1000.edison.garden/house/brick.html. > >You start tilting your head sideways to smile. >

    11/01/1997 04:42:43