What were you doing NYE 1999?

[MrsMoastyToasty]

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).

I was 15 and I drank so much Smirnoff ice I had my head in the toilet when the bells went 🎉

@EmpressLesbianInChair I was also on Waterloo Bridge. The River Of Fire was terrible, remember all the hype about that? My then boyfriend proposed on the stroke of midnight and just then a lump of sulphur from a low firework hit me on the head, must have been a sign! We split up a couple of years later.

Oh I remember this one!!

Ds1 was going to be 1 on the 3rd of January

We went round to my inlaws who were having a millennium partyFIL, MIL, MIL sister, husband and her two children, me, my DH, ds1, BIL, SIL and their 3 children. Dh and i slept on the landing

Inlaws very kindly invited my mum and dad for the evening as well

I remember vividly walking ds1 up and down the back garden because he just wouldn’t sleep unless he was moving. FIL was very proud of his fireworks

Sadly my mum died in 2000 and MIL died in 2017

I know this sounds stupid but id quite forgotten that it was 20 years since the millennium....so this year will be a bit bitter sweet to be honest

OP I know, it was a huge anti climax and relief. They thought all the oxygen supply system might fail too, so we all went to our patients bedsides with manual ventilation circuits at 23.55, then ...nothing!

I guess that's what happens when things are actually prepared for? I was ready for the drama though and it was a bit disappointing when there was none 😂

We lived in Auckland. Ds1 was 4 months old and we went down to watch the fireworks on the harbour front.

I was somewhat erm, off my face in a club in Edinburgh...

Not much. Supposed to be at a small gathering with ex's family but he left at about 10pm and insisted that I did, too. Sat and watched crap TV while he moaned at me, constantly, about how nobody understood him.

I was working, then went home to get ready and went to the pub in fancy dress. My friend wore a gold suit and had her hair up on top of her head and said she was baby spice but they said she didn't make enough effort so weren't going to let her in. I wore fishnets and a wig and went as a tart. Least effort costume I could come up with. I can't remember if they did let her in or not in the end. We paid £45 all in and it was serve yourself (drinks) and they had a buffet. It was a good night from what I remember.

My mum’s living room, the first house we had after my dad left . Vividly remember waking my sister up (she was 6, I was 8) , and then my mum whirling me round the living room as the bells went .

I was 37 and spent a cosy evening at my neighbour's house with my 2 year old son - hubby was at work all night waiting for the Y2K bug to wreak havoc 🙄

He said at the time it was a load of rubbish and nothing would happen but double pay helped ease the pain 🙃

I was at home with my baby son, toddler and ex.
We stayed in and ex was moody because we didn’t go out.

We went skiing with a group of friends that had been booked way in advance. By the time new year came along I was pretty heavily pregnant, so no skiing, booze or lovely french unpasteurised cheeses for me. And then I caught a heavy cold. Was nice but pretty sensible in the end. Seems a lifetime ago.

Went to my parent's friend's pub in the countryside for fireworks and a meal. I was a little turd and was sent to sit in the car while my parents finished their puddings "in peace". I was 13.

At a friends house party, chatting to a random stranger who I didn’t see again until I bumped into him in a pub in 2002, we both recognised each other but didn’t know where from, eventually worked it out, went for drinks a few times and became friends...... We have now been together for 16 years and married for 13.

I was oncall in a neonatal unit. Due to worried about the Y2K bug, they'd booked lots of extra nurses on shift, so that every baby could be hand ventilated if the machines failed, and a flashlight at every bedspace. Happily it went off okay. I also recall a manager with a stop watch hanging around on labour ward, as they were hoping to get the first baby in the region. Idiot.

I remember it distinctly. Like it was yesterday.
I was on a night shift, I’m a nurse.
I was caring for a young woman who was desperately desperately ill and trying to die for the whole entire shift.
I did not have a break for the entire 12 hour shift. I did not have a drink for the whole entire shift, I didn’t even have a wee.
I didn’t sit down and got off late because the shift had been so traumatic and so busy it took me ages to document everything that had happened, so so much had happened on that shift.
By 9am she was still alive by some miracle.
I was filled with absolute dread, terror and horror at the thought of having to tell her husband her mum & dad and 3 children that she had died on me, on my shift.

It was one of them that sticks with you, in your memory. I can still remember every aspect of that shift.

She made a full recovery after many months in hospital. I cared for her loads after that and saw her get better and better every shift.
Best new year present ever. EVER.

Looking after my very young son. He slept through all of the fireworks, it was the first night that he slept through the night

I was working in a bar, £500 for my troubles. Was absolutely knackering though.

Working.I was the most senior junior anaesthetist on call in a big city teaching hospital in the days when consultants were rarely disturbed at night. It was a day from hell. I worked more or less continuously for 24 hours. I actually missed the turn of the millenium as I was sent out to a smaller satellite hospital to look after a desperately sick patient. I remember looking at the clock at 00.33 and realising I'd missed the moment that the whole world had been waiting for.
Then I had to find an ICU bed in another hospital for my patient as ours was full. I eventually got back to my base hospital at about 7.30am and found the rest of the team asleep in the staff room, the buffet that we had all brought in, uneaten. They'd all been waiting for me, which made me cry from a mixture of exhaustion and emotion. So we had a rather strange breakfast and handed over to the next day's team. I was the last to leave and when I got to the car park and realised that my car wasn't there, everyone had unfortunately already gone. It was of course in the car park at the satellite hospital but I had forgotten. I couldn't get a taxi for love nor money so I ended up walking alone through the empty city for several miles which was rather surreal.
It was all pretty shit to be honest.

Son is now 19 today.

19?

Was in police on a specialist unit. Worked all day into night and finished about 4am on News Year Day.

My DD was 20 yesterday. It's the quickest I was out of hospital with any of my five kids. Less than 24 hours! She was the only normal delivery, too.

Then, every time she started to fall asleep, some git let off a firework😠

I was working behind the bar of a social club for a bit of extra money, and was pregnant with DS. I was engaged to DH. I remember going into the garden of the club with him at midnight to watch the fireworks, and being so happy and in love. 20 years later, I'm a widow and it feels like a lifetime ago.

MAFIL that sounds shit. Hope NYE has got better since.

About this time dh and I were turning work down to the tune of 14k in the end.
We wanted to spend it with the kids and no amount of money was worth it.
Also, wasn't sure that contracts could be issued in time, and wondered about being paid.
So we had a lovely family evening.