Y2K Wipeouts

All evidence of “zippergate.”

--Warren Binder, 16,

Tustin High

I would love to never again see platform sneakers!

--Yuka Kobayashi, 17,

Cypress High

Capri pants and standardized tests.

--Erin McFarland, 18,

Cornelia Connelly High

All the drama that goes along with life.

--Janelle Harris, 18,

Newport Harbor High

Get rid of SATs; they are a pointless way of determining smartness.

--Kristen Heard, 17,

Rosary High

I would like every grade that isn’t an “A” to be wiped out by Y2K.

--Stephania Vu,

La Quinta High

Bills, credit cards, Nordstrom bills, debts!

--Victoria Isquith, 18,

Fullerton Union High

I want all my financial information to be erased!! The university will have to pay for my entire education, since my records will show a big, fat “0.”

--Yong Zheng, 17,

La Quinta High

I would like to see all the long, ugly, phone bills that I gave my parents disappear.

--Anna Ronquillo, 18,

Anaheim High

I would like my University of California loan debts to be wiped out by Y2K. I would like my most embarrassing moments erased.

--Chau Tran, 17,

La Quinta High

Our bad driving records!

--Kelly Hertzing, 16,

Sonora High

All the yucky old trash, pollutants, bees, wasps and mosquitoes, icky mice and roaches.

--Rosa Medina, 18,

Santiago High

I would like junk mail wiped out by the Y2K bug.

--Alvin Son, 18,

Cypress High

I would like for all the electricity to be shut off for three months so we can come together and remember all the old times and gain a better understanding of each other.

--Christian Morales, 18,

Tustin High

Bill Gates’ monopolistic wrath.

--Joseph Tran, 18,

Santiago High

Web sites with recipes for things like pipe bombs and do-it-yourself explosives.

--Mandy Paterson, 18,

Anaheim High

Computer viruses and guns.

--Julie Trieu, 17,

Rancho Alamitos High