Just a few "subtle" messages all around us that encourage us to think we are the center of the universe. Our parents were right!

2. Cardboard package for a barrette

3. Line of girls’ clothing, I ♥ me

4. In a store’s display window

5. Multiple bids to have personal desires met

6. MySpace ad

7. Copy for this ad, in lower left corner: long live individuality

8. Pages from November 2007 calendar

9. In a car’s rear window: all about me

10. Another ad: “ wait on me”, “ pamper me”, “ surprise me”, “ draw my bath”

11. From a fortune cookie

12. Another fortune cookie

13. On a billboard in New York City. A line of children’s clothing ~ the copy reads: little wo me n

14. Microsoft ad for Windows 2000

15. Hair salon in downtown Auburn

17. Journal

20. Promotional pamphlet for BankOne

21. Promotional pamphlet for McDonald’s

22. In case there is still any doubt …

23. Recruitment ad for the military