You might be an X-er if...
You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that
folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist.
You remember when Jordache jeans (and parachute pants) were cool.
In your fifth grade class picture, you're wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up
You know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic song
Three words: "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco." Sound
familiar? (or Pong)
You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are
gone for the weekend"
You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV
While in high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again
You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really
was.
You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van. You
rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you really understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time.
Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually
learned the English language
You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran
Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video
You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit
the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
(girls) you thought Shawn Cassidy was "dreamy" and lusted after
"Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat
Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something
which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting"
You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major
You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon
U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now
You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic
Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man
You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding
You remember "Hey, let's be careful out there"
You know who shot J.R.
This rings a bell: "and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."
You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the
guitar.
You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on, after all, look at Tab.
You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
You ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut
You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed
"8-6-7-5-3-0-9" to see if Jenny would answer.
"All-skate, change directions" means something to you.
You owned a preppy handbook.
You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had
to settle for second hand reports.
You remember when there was only "G, PG and R", none of this
PG-13 stuff.
You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of
numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.
The ABC After School Special "My Mom's Having A Baby"
actually taught you stuff you didn't know.
There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.
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1. Your salary is less than your tuition.
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Are you feeling old? If not, consider this:
The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980.
The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
They have no memory of a time before M-TV.
"New Wave" is their PARENTS musical generation.
Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex
Pistols -- are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.
They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a losing Congessional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey history text's reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great
Depression.
Their world has always included AIDS.
Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
They see "Family Ties" as something middle aged ladies watch.
They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids -- on video.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes.
From their earliest years, a camera was something you used
once and threw away.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing ,
and why anyone WOULDN'T buy a suburban is beyond them.
Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if they went to Catholic schools.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE OUT OF COLLEGE WHEN:
2. Your potted plants stay alive.
3. Shacking in a twin-sized bed seems absurd.
4. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
5. You have to pay your own credit card bill.
6. Mac & Cheese no longer counts as a well-balanced meal.
7. You haven't seen a soap opera in over a year.
8. 8:00 a.m. is not early.
9. You have to file for your own taxes.
10. You hear your favorite song on the elevator at work.
11. You're not carded anymore.
12. You carry an umbrella.
13. You learn that "Bachelor" is a nice term for a jackass.
14. "Extended childhood" only really pertains to your salary,
which is a little less than your allowance used to be.
15. "Twenty-something" means over-qualified, under-paid and
not married.
16. Your friends marry instead of hook-up and divorce instead
of break-up.
17. You start watching the weather channel.
18. Jeans and baseball caps aren't staples in your wardrobe.
19. You can no longer take shots,and smoking gives you a
sinus attack.
20. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
21. You stop confusing 401K plan with 10K run.
22. You go to parties that the police don't raid.
23. Adults feel comfortable telling jokes about sex in front
of you.
24. You don't know what time Wendy's closes anymore.
25. Your car insurance goes down.
26. You refer to college students as kids.
27. You drink wine, scotch and martinis instead of beer,bourbon,and rum.
28. Your parents start making casual remarks about grandchildren.
29. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of Taco Bell.