Too much e-mail
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Too much e-mail
- From: "* D* G* <D*@PSS.Boeing.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:30:24 -0700
> >I know it's time to join E-Mail Junkies Anonymous. I just
> >realized I was doing all these things!
> >
> >1. I wake up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and stop to check
> >my e-mail on the way back to bed.
> >
> >2. I nick-named my grandchildren eudora, aol and dotcom.
> >
> >3. I turn off my modem and get this awful empty feeling, as if
> >I had just pulled the plug on a loved one.
> >
> >4. I spend half the plane trip with my laptop on my lap...and
> >my grandchild in the overhead compartment.
> >
> >5. I decided to stay in college for an additional year or two,
> >just for the free internet access.
> >
> >6. I laugh at people with 14.4-baud modems.
> >
> >7. I started using smileys in my snail mail.
> >
> >8. I find myself typing "com" after every period when using a
> >word processor.com
> >
> >9. I refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
> >
> >10. I can't call my mother...she doesn't have a modem.
> >
> >11. I check my mail. It says "no new messages." So I check it
> >again.
> >
> >12. I don't know what gender three of my closest friends are,
> >because they have neutral screennames and I never bothered to
> >ask.
> >
> >13. I move into a new house and decide to netscape before I
> >landscape.
> >
> >14. I tell the cab driver I live at
> >http://4910/PL/S/E/House/brick.Garden/html
> >
> >15. I have started tilting my head sideways to smile.
> >
> >It's a scary thing....
>
> >16. If I can't get on the internet it wrinkes up my whole day.....
>
> >17. I depend on spell check to scan my handwritten letters.
>
> >18. If the computer isn't working so I can communicate with someone,
> I'm
> like a small boat drifting around without an anchor.....awash....
>
> >19. I lose contact with everybody who doesn't have a modem..
>
> >20. I come home to 200 e-mail letters and have to spend half a day
> getting
> caught up.......unlike letters that you can just stash in a
> drawer.....
>
>
>
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