A Scrunchy? Really?

Ok.  So, I am pretty sure it is not 1996 but things can get confusing when you see a scrunchy in someone's hair on the shuttle ride to your building and you haven't had any coffee and you didn't get home until about 12:20 the night before.  I really just don't get it.  Any sane person knows that scrunchies mean only one thing, ok, two...1) you are a redneck and 2) you just got here in a hot tub time machine.  An the worst part of this whole thing...she had the scrunchy right under an inside out ponytail!  Like this one...

Again, circa 1996.  I guess it could have been worse.  Case in point...