90's Mentality Signs

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* Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast-food bags out of the back seat of your car.
* Your reason for not staying in better touch with your family is that they don't have E-mail addresses.

* Keeping up with sports entails adding ESPN's homepage to your bookmarks.

* You have a "to do" list that includes entries for lunch and bathroom breaks --and they are usually the ones that never get crossed off.

* You have actually faxed your Christmas list to your parents.

* Standard pick-up lines now include references to liquid assets and capital gains.

* You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

* You refer to your dining room table as "the flat filing cabinet."

* Your idea of being organized is multiple colored sticky notes.

* Your grocery list has been on the front of your fridge so long some of the products don't even exist any longer.

* You lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on how to improve their production and marketing processes.

* You get all excited when it's Saturday -- and that just means you can wear your sweats to work.

* You refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as "deliverables."

* You find you really need PowerPoint to explain what it is you do for a living.

* You typically eat out of vending machines, and at the most expensive restaurant in the city, within the same week.

* You think that "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are standard and acceptable English phrases.

* You know the people at the airport hotels better than your next-door neighbors.

* You ask your friends to, "think out of the box" when making Friday night plans.

* You think Einstein would have been more effective if he put his ideas into matrix.

* You think a "half day" means leaving at 5 o'clock.

* You hear most of your jokes via E-mail instead of in person.




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