Signs of the Times
Signs of the times…
Sign in a Laundromat:
AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES:
PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT
GOES OUT
Sign in a London department store:
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS
In an office:
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER
YESTERDAY
PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE
TAKEN
In an office:
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT
AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD
Outside a secondhand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES
ETC.
WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL
BARGAIN?
Notice in health food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS
Spotted in a safari park:
ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR
Seen during a conference:
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN’T KNOW IT,
THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE FIRST FLOOR
Notice in a field:
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR
FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES
Message on a leaflet:
IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU
HOW TO GET LESSONS
Sign on a repair shop door:
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING.
(PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN’T
WORK)
Spotted in a toilet in a London office block:
TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW
In the upper corner of a church nursery hangs:
I Corinthians 15:51 BEHOLD, I SHEW YOU A MYSTERY; WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP,
BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED
October 17th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
I got this from my mom and dad and thought it hit the nail on the head!
25 SIGNS THAT YOU’VE HAD TOO MUCH OF THE 90’s
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You now think of three espressos as “getting wasted.”
3. You haven’t played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
4. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of
three.
5. You call your son’s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He
emails you back from his bedroom, “What’s for dinner?”
6. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
7. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa,
but
you haven’t spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
8. You didn’t give your valentine a card this year, but you posted
one
for your e-mail buddies via a web page.
9. Your daughter just bought a CD of all the records your college
roommate used to play.
10. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see
if
it contains Echinacea.
11. You check your blow-dryer to see if it’s Y2K compliant.
12. Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send
her
a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
13. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see
if
anyone is home.
14. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the
bottom
of the screen.
15. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now
sells
for half the price you paid.
16. The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to
make a purchase is foreign to you.
17. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out
of
the back seat of your car.
18. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do
not have e-mail addresses.
19. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
20. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
21. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
22. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
24. You’re reading this
25. Even worse; you’re going to forward it to someone else.–