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What were you doing NYE 1999?

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MrsMoastyToasty · 31/12/2019 10:09

What were you doing 20 years ago today?

I spent the day sleeping in readiness for working the night shift in the emergency call centre/control room of the water company where I worked. I started work at 6pm and was due to finish 6am on New year's Day (although we were stood down about 3am, so I was able to collect DH from the party he'd gone to).

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LadyOfTheCanyon · 31/12/2019 19:04

I'd worked all day, got ready in the work loos and headed out from there. I remember exactly what I was wearing too as those were the days when I had a cracking figure and a wonder bra under a mesh T-shirt with a mini skirt and DMs was just the thing!

Lost my purse in the district line for starters - had to blag drinks all night.

went to a friends house in Hackney for a few drinks then we went our separate ways and I went on to a house party in Stoke Newington.

I did a shed load of drugs, and ended up gurning in a pub with some friends who were over from Australia. Crashed somewhere in Tottenham and topped off the night with sex with a random bloke who I thought looked like Trent Reznor. I remember looking into the bathroom mirror while he was banging me from behind and thinking "I'm. So. Beautiful. "
Drugs will do that to you. Grin

Tonight DH and I are having a takeaway and drinking champagne. Probably asleep by 11. How times change!!!

RuffleCrow · 31/12/2019 19:05

On a night out in Tufnell Park! Grin

Aged 18, bless

Lonelycrab · 31/12/2019 19:10

I was in London on south bank right opposite Houses of Parliament. We were really close to a barge with fireworks but it was free back then. Lots of bubbly (probably Prosecco or cava because I’m that classyGrin)
We walked back to East dulwich where I lived at the time, there were thousands going home like this as I don’t think public transport was running that night. I’ll always remember champagne bottles overflowing from bins at 3am

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minesagin37 · 31/12/2019 19:13

Had a 2 week old baby. We rented a big house in Keswick with all my family and celebrated together. Miss you mum.

KangarooCourting · 31/12/2019 19:14

I was at a very exclusive club night with my best friend and her then boyfriend (who owned the club). Very swanky. Champagne and cocaine-fuelled Shock. I wore a gun metal grey/silver strapless mini dress, as I was 22 and a size 8. It was a very fun night, but I had a three day comedown/hangover, that wasn’t so much fun...

Oh, how times change! Tonight I’m staying in with DH and young teen DCs and we’re having a curry and hoping to stay awake until midnight Grin.

CSEpicFailure · 31/12/2019 19:24

On a whim we went from Woking to Waterloo on the train at 10pm to see the fireworks. We stood on Blackfriars Bridge. They lasted 22 minutes. It took us 5 hours to get home (should have taken one).

It was chaos. The roads were jammed with people. You could have taken your feet off the ground and been held upright. People were sobering up, being sick, getting aggressive. Ambulances couldn't get through. Got to Waterloo and the concourse was overcrowded so closed. Managed to get on a train at 4am. Had to stand on one leg wedged between people

It was hideous and a "let's not and say we did" kind of an evening.

RunningNinja79 · 31/12/2019 19:25

I was in Manchester with my Uni friends. We went into the city early on then home for midnight for some drinks. I don't really remember the finite details.

Tonight is the most un-new-years-eve I have ever felt. Finished work at 4 so now home and it's just any given week night. I wouldn't mind, but I've often worked between Christmas and New year and I think I've worked more NYE's than not. For some reason though, apart from the constant streams of Happy New Year posts on Facebook and the date on the calendar I wouldn't even know it was.

TBH I'd rather it wasn't so I could relax and do nowt then go to bed, but we have plans with the switch and I dont really want to be boring. Maybe I'll feel a bit more into it laterish.

Times have definitely changed. In a way I feel sad about that, but I know that if I was out and about I'd just wish I was at home.

beverlymarsh · 31/12/2019 19:26

I was 19 and at a massive Gatecrasher event at Don Valley Stadium near Sheffield. It was good but very very cold (largely due to the fact that I was outside in very small clubbing gear 🙈😆)

alwaysthinkingofsleep · 31/12/2019 19:28

Trying to get into a ticketed pub to see my "boyfriend" who was in there with his girlfriend...I was 15, he was 26...it was fucked up.

LemonPrism · 31/12/2019 19:29

I was 4 and I was sitting with my parents in the front garden with a teeeny tiny snifter of champagne watching the fireworks

Purpletigers · 31/12/2019 19:30

At a party in Belfast and then down to the docks to watch the fireworks .

Freddiefatpants · 31/12/2019 19:30

I worked it behind a bar, we stopped serving for 5 mins before and after midnight so the bar staff could see the year in and it blew people's minds completely. They'd had plenty of warnings and had signs everywhere but security and some bar staff had to guard the bar as there was almost a riot.
I finished about 3am and felt so ill and put it down to being knackered, but then spent the first week in bed at my mum's (after a pathetic "I'm sick" phone call home on NYD) with flu. Mildly surprised my mobile worked on NYD with all the Y2K hype.
Was memorable if nothing else 🤣

SingingSands · 31/12/2019 19:30

Drove up to Glasgow for a party at a friend's house in the West End. Then we walked into town to join the street party in the Merchant City. Had a great time and bumped into our two friends who had gotten engaged.

I still have the photos from that night. It looks so much fun and we were roaring drunk. Of all the couples in the photo, only DH and I are are still together. We were all so young!

mnahmnah · 31/12/2019 19:31

I was 20. Visiting my parents in South Korea, where they were living at the time. We spent the evening in the cocktail bar of the Hilton hotel listening to a singer. Not the most exciting of evenings! Pretty sure I would have had more fun back at uni with my friends

Smeghead90 · 31/12/2019 19:32

I was 9 in Florida with my family, watched the fireworks from the balcony on the beach.....good times

fedup2017 · 31/12/2019 19:35

I was 20. As the fireworks went off I was having Really good sex. My boyfriend at the time was super hot ( alas apart from being an amazing shag he was completely unsuitable as a boyfriend and it didn't last long). The memory of it makes me smile even now.... but when my children ask what I was doing for the millennium I have to say "I think I was just at a party".

tasharichford · 31/12/2019 19:36

I was 14 turning 15 on the 3rd January. Was at a friends parents house party and got absolutely steaming drunk...good times Wink

SuperMeerkat · 31/12/2019 19:37

Snogging my husband 💖💖 The DJ did the countdown 3..2...1 and then all the lights went off and everything went dark and people started getting nervous thinking the Millennium bug was real. About 5 seconds later he yelled ‘only kidding’ and played Auld Lang Syne 😂😂

AllYouGoodGoodPeople · 31/12/2019 19:39

Another one on the South Bank wondering what the fuss was over the fireworks- the whole river of fire thing didn't work close up. Then we cycled to a party in possibly Camden, I'm not sure, there was a warehouse studio thing with lots of people in black tie and lots of warm runny cheese. Then more cycling around to get home.

tac10 · 31/12/2019 19:40

I was with friends and we went to a house party at the Barbican then spent the bells watching the fireworks from Waterloo bridge 😊🥳 it was a good night!!

screweduppotatoe · 31/12/2019 19:42

I was on guard duty. Never celebrated new year though so wasn't bothered.

PatchworkElmer · 31/12/2019 19:44

I was 12! My parents had lots of neighbours over for a party, and we all spilled out into the street at midnight to sing auld lang syne. My parents have me the millennium TY beanie baby ❤️

FinallyHere · 31/12/2019 19:49

Moved in to new-to-us house with now DH, after nearly ten years LDR. decided to get married.

This year is the first that we have been gone together, not going out, since then.

Who knows what might happen. xx

tac10 · 31/12/2019 19:52

Not sure what happened as it posted while I was still typing lol so trying again!! I was with friends and we went to a house party at the Barbican then spent the bells watching the fireworks from Waterloo bridge 😊🥳 it was a good night!! Though the river of fire didn’t work so we wondered what the fuss was about...couldn’t get near Waterloo at the end of it so we decided to start walking home my Kiwi friends got told that the Victoria line was going to be open early so they went that way, while I managed to squeeze onto a bus going south from Lambeth North and got home before they had even got into the station!!

Animum2 · 31/12/2019 19:53

I was working night shift making donuts, this year am going to bed early!

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