You can tell you've had too much of the 90s when . . .

. . . you try to enter your password on the microwave.

. . . you haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

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

. . . you e-mail your work colleague at the desk next to you to ask "Wanna go for a drink?" and they reply "Yeah, give me five minutes".

. . . you chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbour yet this year.

. . . your idea of being organized is multiple coloured post-it notes.

. . . you hear all good jokes via email instead of in person.

. . . when you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone with your company's name.

. . . when you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

. . . you've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

. . . your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.

. . . you really get excited about a 1.7% pay raise.

. . . temps in your department outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.

. . . board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.

. . . it's dark when you drive to and from work.

. . . free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.

. . . 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.

. . . being sick is defined as 'you can't walk' or 'you're in the hospital'.

. . . 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.

. . . 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.

. . . every week another brown collection envelope comes around because someone you didn't even know had started is leaving.

. . . you only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.

. . . your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".

. . . you read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling.

. . . as you read this list, you thought about forwarding it to your "friends you send jokes to" e-mail group.

. . . 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.

Sent in by Shawn.

. . . you pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

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 you buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.

. . . the concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.

. . . cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.

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

. . . you consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

. . . your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.

. . . you now think of three espressos as "getting wasted."

. . . you call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"

. . . your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.

. . . you didn't give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your e-mail buddies via a web page.

. . . your daughter just bought a CD of all the records your College roommate used to play.

. . . you check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.

. . . 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.

. . . you can't order it by midnight and have it delivered by noon the next day, it is just too slow.

. . . your Stockbroker's name ends in ".com".

. . . a Blind date means chatting online with someone you haven't met before.

. . . keeping up with sports means having your favorite sports teams as Bookmarks.

. . . most of your books are bought online. "Real world" bookstores are now prized as your favorite cafe to hang out, work and meet people of the opposite sex.

. . . your food in the refrigerator has been there so long, that you have received a grant from the National Institute for Health to do germ research.

. . . you lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their efficiency.

. . . you get all excited when it's Saturday and you can wear sweats to work.

. . . you find you really need Power Point to explain what kind of work you do.

. . . you normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.

. . . you apologize to your friends who didn't get holiday cards from you. "Sorry, I only sent "email cards" this year, you just didn't make the cut."

. . . you think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock.

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