- You ever made mixtapes, and burned out the rewind button.
- Listening to 100.5 Gen X Radio makes you feel 50% nostalgic and 50% shame.
- Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name' is the song stuck in your head when you think about your first flame.
- You referred to your drink size as 'tall' or 'venti', and everyone used to look at you like you were crazy.
- You used a cell phone primarily to call people.
- You know that the '90210' running now is a remake because you watched the original.
- You used a handle to roll down a car window.
- You still refer to Mark Wahlberg as 'Marky Mark'.
- You know what tight rolls are.
- You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song.
- A predominant color in your Lifetouch school photos is plaid.
- The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you up with laughter.
- You're starting to believe that maybe having kids go to school year round isn't such a bad idea
- You owned a Trapper Keeper.
- You work in a career that has absolutely nothing pertaining to your college major.
- You ever wanted to be 'gagged with a spoon'.
- You bought a pair of Vans and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Spicoli in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'.
- You could barely move your mouth after making your way through one of those 'brick-sized' packages of Bazooka gum.
- You actually believed that Mikey (from the 'Life' cereal commercials) died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a coke.
- You thought Chevy Chase was really funny in those 'Vacation' movies.
- You watched any movies when PG-13 didn't exist.
- You ever rang someone's doorbell and said, "Landshark".
- "All skate" and "Change directions" means something to you.
- You saw the Rolling Stones 'first' farewell tour.
- You decided to take up golf after seeing 'Caddyshack'.
- Cheech and Chong were really cool, man!
- The OJ you knew was famous for running through airports in Hertz commercials, or for football.
- You know someone who used to drink Tab.
- Your first cable television box went up to channel 72.
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