I was recently thinking about some of the things that I'd have to supply myself or do without if TS really HTF... then I got to thinking about stuff I wouldn't miss:

Television (if this, and only this, goes down, the world will be a better place)

Traffic

Phone solicitors, especially at suppertime

Junk mail

Credit cards

Microsoft Windows

OK, what won't y'all miss?

-- Larry Kollar (lekollar@nyx.net), October 13, 1998

Answers

Long distance carriers & their advertising budgets Automated Voicemail systems Jets overhead (trade for copters, I guess) Microsoft ANYTHING Local news broadcasts Condescending bank tellers Hair regrowth products and THEIR advertising budgets Coca-Cola! Thank god! I'll finally be free of it! Paying insurance premiums of any kind Election coverage, any race! Alarm clocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Lisa B (nomail@work.com), October 13, 1998.

National news media, the "politically corrupt" liars (in office nationally and locally), liberals, lawyers, lobbyists, and loafers...

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 13, 1998.

Hmmmm....Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson and Beanie Babies!!!

-- Roy @ Four Winds (4windpwr@infoblvd.net), October 13, 1998.

I'll not miss "Make Money Fast" and other such spams.

-- Arnie Rimmer (arnie_rimmer@usa.net), October 13, 1998.

I wont miss:

PTA meetings and solicitations to join them

Rushing in the morning

Watching the kids in frustration playing computer games and watching T.V.

Telephone solicitations at dinner time

Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky (and ofcourse Starr, hope he gets stuck in the middle of a traffic jam in washington D.C. with rioters all around him.)

I'll miss my new kitchen though (snif)

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), October 13, 1998.

4 phone lines, fax, beeper, cell phone, Palm Pilot, voice mail...

-- Melissa (financed@forbin.com), October 13, 1998.

insurance salesmen, any Human Resource/ Management/Personnel types ....

-- Karen S (not@thistime.com), October 14, 1998.

What? Everybody gonna miss the IRS? How about those accident attorneys? "Injured by someone, and they don't have a lot of money? Don't worry, we can find someone with deep pockets for you to sue! Even if logic says they aren't involved, you can still sue and win!"

-- Uncle Deedah (oncebitten@twiceshy.com), October 14, 1998.

You go uncle dedah,,,,lolrof, i am an insurance agent, (no need to worry about us, 1-99 will take us away lol) also do claims, What i wont miss Fraud committed by liars who have 200 damage to a bumper of their vehicle with a 500.00 ambulance bill and the attorney who demand 100,000 in damages... Phone calls from my son's teachers informing me of how bad he is. lol my money, never had any to begin with TV the root of ALL evil...lol Demand from the city for taxes Demand from irs for money i dont have Working, (i've always hated it) Credit spending, this is why i have no money i n the first place (wow now i get it) AND LASTLY< ALL THE MORONS WHO MADE FUN OF ME STOCK PILING FOOD, INCLUDING MY X HUBBY...LOL

-- mommy (PRIVATE@aol.com), October 14, 1998.

The IRS, Madison Advertisments, Beautiful People..."didn't you USED to be famous...?" Oprah Winfrey; Fed, State & Local Government; whiney, baby, knee-jerk, limosine liberals; telemarketing; junk mail; traffic jams; shopping malls...

-- Nope (nope@nope.com), October 14, 1998.

What I won't miss is the Y2K problem itself and the way it has consumed a lot of my time.

-- Buddy Y. (DC) (buddy@bellatlantic.net), October 14, 1998.

Sales calls at dinnertime!!!

Obnoxious TV commercials

Kids fighting over the (noncompliant) computer

-- Ohiomom (ina@tizzy.com), October 14, 1998.

Oh yeah, I forgot some...

Talk radio

Democratic & Republican parties

Media feeding frenzies

Yuppies

Pointy-haired managers

-- Larry Kollar (lekollar@nyx.net), October 14, 1998.

I'm going to miss all the things mentioned here, expecially when I'm freezing my ass off in January. I'll be praying for one of those annoying phone calls at dinner time. This will be no bed or roses, even if you think you are prepared.

-- Dave (dave22@concentric.net), October 14, 1998.

DAVE< DAVE DAVE>>>>>my exhusband's name is DAve.....lighten up this is a HUMOR column....dude, NOBODY is looking forward to this... I live in the north, I will be plenty cold...i will miss the heat, but what a time for closeness....perhaps hubby and I will be forced togher to find heat?????HMMMM, wonder how many pregnancies will occurr in 1-00???????lolrof

-- humorme (Private@aol.com), October 15, 1998.

What won't we miss...

I won't miss the TV much at all, but especially I won't miss Pro Wrestling and their ads! We don't watch it, but the ads are plenty!!! No doubt there will still be folks who will pay money to watch garish, bloody "sports", but I won't have to know about it.

Years (many!) ago, I was in a sort of survival situation that lasted 4 months (LONG,LONG STORY...). I was in an unfamiliar environment, dealing with hostiles and the friendlys who were not necessarily trustworthy. All my time & energy, every waking thought was consumed with making it through and out of it alive and whole. While it was the worst experience of my life, it was also in some ways one of the best. I learned more about myself & what matters in those months than in the whole rest of my life. I learned how to determine what is necessary, and how to prioritize my use of resources, and well, I guess think on my feet. It was dreadful in many ways, but there was a purity to it. I sure didn't waste much on trivial things... No clutter...

I guess what I'm getting at is that I won't miss all this clutter in my life and in my head.

I just hope I don't let it get replaced by some other color of clutter....

-- Arewyn (nordic@northnet.net), October 15, 1998.

Snooty, well-toned women who live at the gym. People asking,"When are you gonna get a man?!" Florescent lighting The high-frequency noises that a lot of electrical things make. Staying up past my bed-time because of being hypnotized by the computer-t.v. (I moved back home because of y2k. I didn't have a t.v. or a computer at my place. Not because I was poor- I love to read. I read 2-3 books a week) Now I have fallen in the t.v.-computer trap!

-- madeline (runner@bcpl.net), October 15, 1998.

CORRECTION: I moved back to my PARENTS' HOME. I HAD a home of my own. Do I sound a tad insecure? That's because of another thing that I won't miss: "So when are you gonna move back out of your parents' house? I though you were so independent????!!!?" (Yea, well, I'll be more independent then your freezin', starvin' carcass- you neby-nosed,lil'...) oops! Did I say that?!

-- madeline (runner@bcpl.net), October 15, 1998.

Dang, I'm gonna miss snooty well toned women, yes I'm married (to a great gal) but even when on a diet, reading the menu can still be fun!

-- Uncle Deedah (oncebitten@twiceshy.com), October 15, 1998.

Ummmmm! Uncle Deedah we're gonna tell Mrs. Deedah. :-) Actually, that is why you get tortured by all of the old snowbird grannies! Was it a granny who cut you off in traffic and gave you the finger? :-)

-- Gayla Dunbar (privacy@please.com), October 16, 1998.

My VISA bill........

-- Annie O'Dea (tarotmaid@yahoo.com), October 16, 1998.