20. Nitrogen-packed wheat that tastes like possum turds.

19. A hidden agenda.

18. That damn Meme I had back in the summer of '98.

17. 200 gallons of flammable/explosive liquids in the basement.

16. A subscription to Art Bell's newsletter.

15. Sideburns like Jim Lord.

14. 'Andy' for a financial advisor.

13. Michael Hyatt for a pastor.

12. Leon Kappelman for a professor.

11. Rick Cowles as my city's utilities director.

10. A new high-dollar 500 KW generator that I just maybe might need for an hour or three.

9. A good job that I left due to Y2k.

8. A nice house that I sold due to Y2k.

7. A high-dollar "bug-out safe haven in the boonies" that I'll never actually need.

6. A wife who left me due to Y2k.

5. An unreasonable unwillingness to change my mind, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

4. Lack of faith in my fellow man's ability to rise to the occasion in times of difficulty.

3. Lack of faith in my fellow man's willingness to help his less fortunate neighbor in times of difficulty. (See: eastern NC: September 1999: Hurricane Floyd: flood relief efforts)

2. Lack of compassion for those less fortunate. (See: TB2k comments: "Let the Pollies starve! Good riddance!")

1. Fear for the future.

-- Chicken Little (panic@forthebirds.net), December 29, 1999

Answers

Chicken

Sure hope your post will make the cut here as this should be required reading for anyone that still harbors any Y2K fears. Now if we could just get the human factor under control.

-- Look (at@the.facts), December 29, 1999.

Good luck Chicken, I hope you are right, for all our sakes...

I wish I had your confidence the the human condition...

Here we go!!!

snoozin' on the couch... (BAD DOG!)

The Dog

-- The Dog (dogdesert@hotmail.com), December 29, 1999.

Chicken Little.........What are you wasting your time here for?????there is something more on tv that would interest you.We are trying to have an intelligent conversation about something very important I have never seen such laid back minds as the mass of people if you would do your home work you would find out this is much more important then your stupid remarks.

-- Ramen (Ramen@1234.com), December 29, 1999.

I'm pretty well prepped, & I too have none of those things.

So, your point is...?

-- not (that@we.care), December 29, 1999.

Chicken Little,

If you had explained to us that you considered yourself to be less fortunate than we are, I am sure you would have been treated more kindly. We just did not understand that beneath the sneering was yearning.

-- Dian (bdp@accessunited.com), December 29, 1999.