The Decade Is Almost Over … and Not a Moment Too Soon!

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Sept 13, 1999

This list of the Top 18 Signs You've Had Too Much of the 1990s came for the people's way from Insight subscriber and contributor Alan Caruba, who heads The Boring Institute and the National Anxiety Center in Maplewood, N.J.

Here they are -- the indicators that prove you've let this decade take charge of your life:

18. You try to enter your password on the microwave.

17. You now think of three espressos as getting wasted.

16. You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.

15. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

14. You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he e-mails you back, "What's for dinner?"

13. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her Website.

12. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor once this year.

11. You forget to send your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your e-mail buddies via a Webpage.

10. Your daughter just bought on CD all the records your college roommate used to play. You hated it then; you hate it now.

9. Every commercial on television has a Website address at the bottom of the screen.

8. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.

7. The concept of using real money instead of credit or debit cards to make a purchase is foreign to you.

6. Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast-food bags out of the back seat of your car.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.

4. You consider second-day delivery painfully slow.

3. You refer to your dining room table as the fiat filing cabinet.

2. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored Post-It notes.

And the No. 1 sign you've had too much of the nineties:

1. You get most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person!