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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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marjoretta · 31/12/2019 10:29

I went to a house party and my DH proposed.

He had told me he would propose in 1999, so he left it to the dying seconds....

Was quite romantic I suppose!

Lordfrontpaw · 31/12/2019 10:30

On a little island in Fiji.

Sh0na · 31/12/2019 10:31

I'd been recently dumped by somebody I had loved and i went out to some old friend's new house that she'd bought with her bf. He turned out to be an absolutely jackass and was shouting and ranting at me after she'd gone to bed. For about 2 hours solid he ranted at me. I look back and wonder if he'd taken cocaine or something. I'd never seen the like of it. So weird and horrible. 1999 was such a soul-depleting year for me. I really wish I could go back to that point and rescue myself.

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LBOCS2 · 31/12/2019 10:31

On Southbank with a big group of friends. Drank booze out of a coke bottle that we'd pilfered from our parents, then walked back to one of their houses in Peckham at about 3am.

Aposterhasnoname · 31/12/2019 10:32

I’d just met now DH, he invited me to be his plus one at a friends party. Friend was very wealthy, it was black tie, held in a huge marquee in the garden of their equally huge house. There was staff! I was agog, and slightly terrified, it was just like the movies.

Got know the friend a bit better over the years and he was lovely. Sadly died very young, and very suddenly, a couple of years ago.

exexpat · 31/12/2019 10:34

Stuck in a hotel room in Sydney with a miserable toddler with a double ear infection, having had to cancel our flight home on doctor's advice. We could hear the spectacular harbour bridge fireworks a couple of hundred metres away but could only see them on television or reflected in the windows of neighbouring buildings.

Lordfrontpaw · 31/12/2019 10:34

@Sh0na well I guess the upside was that it could only get better from there? I really hope it did for you!

MustardScreams · 31/12/2019 10:34

I was 11, mum was heavily pregnant with my brother and we went to a party somewhere in a marquee. I just remember my dad’s horrendous dancing and my sister and I cringing all night Grin

VioletCharlotte · 31/12/2019 10:36

I was living with ex P and baby DS was four months old. We had a big house party with family, lots of drinking and dancing.

Wrigleys123 · 31/12/2019 10:36

I was 14 and my parents left me home alone with my 2 friends and some smirnoff ice - good times Grin

ClemDanFango · 31/12/2019 10:40

I was with my then boyfriend and his family, we walked from where they lived to Tower Bridge London where we all saw in the New Year in a massive crowd of people singing Auld Lang Syne.
Everyone expected their mobiles to crash at the stroke of midnight because of the Y2K bug! 😂

tinsletime · 31/12/2019 10:42

I was at a very large river side bar, drinking cocktails, jelly shots, tubes, got soaked with the drinks going into the air at midnight ...really didn't care, Dance music blaring all night, walked home barefoot at dawn, that was some party....

gabsdot45 · 31/12/2019 10:42

I was in Dublin. There was nothing on and nothing to do. All the staff working in the hospitality trade were demanding huge pay for working NYE so in the end nowhere opened.
There was a fireworks display in Dublin bay so we watched that from a beach.
1999 had been, up to that point, the worst year of my life and I was so glad for it to be over. When midnight came I felt a physical sense of relief.

HowlsMovingBungalow · 31/12/2019 10:43

With my best friend and my DD - best friend had an awful virus and we watched the TV at 12 under duvets and waited for Y2K to happen ...

Lessstressedhemum · 31/12/2019 10:44

Bringing my new born DD home from hospital.

Thefaceofboe · 31/12/2019 10:44

Probably in bed as I was 5. Hope my parents were having a good night though!

Ifartglitterybaubles · 31/12/2019 10:45

I was working the night shift on call for trauma theatres/trauma team. We had to carry the trauma bleep at night which meant I had to be on site, luckily we were quiet and had no cases/trauma alerts.

Mistressiggi · 31/12/2019 10:47

Street party in Edinburgh.

vampirethriller · 31/12/2019 10:47

Spent the day with my dad and one of my brothers, had a roast dinner then went out with friends and drank a lot of gin. I was 18.

Butterbeeeen · 31/12/2019 10:47

I was 16 and pretty much all of my friendship group lived on the same estate so we did a 'bar crawl' of the estate and all of the parents had put on nibbles and drinks. Was still the best new years eve iv ever had. Happy memories

Knittingnanny · 31/12/2019 10:48

It was weird, when I was born in 1956 I didn’t ever think about the fact that I would be alive in 2 centuries.
I went out into our street and did a countdown with neighbours but spent the whole evening worrying about eldest son, just turned 18 and out celebrating somewhere!

Coldemort · 31/12/2019 10:49

Was 19 and very very drunk at a house party in rural north wales. Came out on the street at midnight to see the fireworks, it was lovely.
@Oopsy41 I've never been more jealous of anyone in my life! That would have been amazing!

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Ikeameatballs · 31/12/2019 10:51

I was at a house party at a farmhouse in a tiny village. I was 21 and the group us was from 18-25. Lots of booze, dancing and a scandal; one bloke went out to the stables with a girl who wasn’t his girlfriend. The “not girlfriend” came back in with mud on her knees and his fly was undone.

Looking back it was a good night but I was getting married the following Easter and already knew that that wasn’t the right thing to do but felt trapped.

PandancerandRabbitoplh · 31/12/2019 10:51

Party with friends in Paris and DH proposed.