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Subj: Signs That You've Had Too Much Of The'90s:
Date: 1999-11-17 12:41


Signs That You've Had Too Much Of The '90s:

 1. You try to enter your password on the  microwave (and if your 
    microwave breaks, you have a real fear of starvation).
 2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in  years.
 3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach  your family of  4.
 4. You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk  next to you to ask, "Do 
    you wanna go get a beer? " and he replies, " Yeah, give me  five 
    minutes. "
 5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but 
    you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
 6. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do 
    not have e-mail addresses.
 7. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
 8. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
 9. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone 
    in a business manner.
 10. When you make phone calls from home, you  accidentally insert a "9"; 
     to get an outside line.
 11. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
 12. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
 13. You know exactly how many days you've got left  until you retire.
 14. You see a good looking, smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
 15. Free food left over from meetings is your  staple diet.
 16. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in the hospital.
 17. You're already late on the assignment you just  got.
 18. Your boss's favorite lines are:
         1. When you've got a few minutes...
         2. Could you fit this in...?
         3. In your spare time ... when you've got a moment I know you're busy but...
         4. I have an opportunity for you
 19. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers";
 20. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.


 .........AND THE CLINCHERS ARE.....
 21. You read this entire list and you kept nodding  and smiling.
 22. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your 
     "friends you send jokes to" e-mail  group.
 23. It crosses your mind that your jokes group may  have seen this list 
     already, but you don't have time to check so you  forward it anyway.