42 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 You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.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. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone with your company's name.
18. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.
19. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
20. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
21. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay raise.
22. You e-mail your work colleague at the desk five yards away from you to ask "Wanna go for a drink?" and he replies "Yeah, give me five minutes".
23. Temps in your department outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
24. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
25. It's dark when you drive to and from work.
26. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
27. The intern gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours powers up.
28. Being sick is defined as 'you can't walk' or 'you're in the hospital'.
29. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department is short, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
30. Your boss's favourite lines are: When you've got a few minutes...Could you fit this in?...in your spare time...when you're freed up...I know you're busy but...I have an opportunity for you.
31. Every week another brown collection envelope comes around because someone you didn't even know had started is leaving.
32 Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
33. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
34. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
35. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
36. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
37. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
38. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
39. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
40. You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling.
41. As you read this list, you thought about forwarding it to your "friends you send jokes to" e-mail group.
42. It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this list already, but you can't be bothered to check so you forward it anyway.

Yup.