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 went over my sister's house, she had 2 babies. She went to bed early, me and her husband stayed up talking about life. Think I drank a bottle of red wine, him a bunch of beers. We clinked glasses at midnight, then went to sleep. Not very exciting, but looking back it makes me sad.

My sister and I barely speak, if at all. Her husband doesn't speak to me at all. Her kids barely know me. It's been a tumultuous 2 decades. Wish we could be close again, but just don't think it'll ever happen.

I was there to welcome all 3 of her boys to this world, and she welcomed my 2 girls. No one would've been able to make me believe that we'd be where we are now back then. Life can be cruel.

I was a Midwife getting ready to work a night shift. There were extra staff on to cope with what was expected to be a busier night than usual with lots of problems caused by computer errors. The reality was that we had a quiet night, no patients all night until one lady arrived in labour at around 6am. The national newspapers kept ringing asking if we had any births imminent, they were desperate for news if the first millenium babies. We told a few fibs to wind them up. Around that time we had also been having a few calls from a "dirty phonecaller" ,think we might have had a call from him that night also.
We were paid @ double time and half instead of time plus 60% after midnight.

I think I was around me Nan and grandads.

Drunk on wine in a wooden playhouse at the end of my friends garden with her neighbours who were the same age- and were BOYS... this was the height of fun and hedonism for us as mid teens from an all girl convent school!
Best night ever.
Never puked so much in my life though.

I was in a campervan on the West Coast of Scotland with my DP in a howling gale having played a few games of Scrabble and having drunk copious amounts of fizz. Was quite scared actually and thought the van was going to get blown over. Added to the fin de siecle hysteria We’d driven up all the way from Gloucester.

I was 19 four months pregnant with DC1. Went to a party with DH it was really good fun, just before midnight we all went off to a nearby field and let off loads of fireworks and watched all the fireworks going off in the town below. Then we sloped off for a shag!

It was one of my first times being drunk. I was on the seafront in Portsmouth shouting at everyone who passed that I loved their choice of trousers.

Another one who was watching the Manics at the millennium stadium in Cardiff.

I was also watching the manics at the millennium stadium. I was 18.

Can’t remember but i was at home with DH (no kids).

20 yrs on we’ll be at home (with one kid, other 2 out). More than happy!

Listening to music alone in my bedroom, I was a teenager.

At a party with my then boyfriend now DH, it was the first time we said we loved each other!

I was 16, I went to Atomic Jam at the Que club in Birmingham and took lots of Es.

I'm a changed woman now though, guv. Honest. Tonight I'm staying in with a bottle of Moët and watching Line of Duty season 5 on dvd.

Babysat, charged double time lol

Thanks @LunaTheCat
There's a lot more I could say about that night, but it wouldn't be very professional of me.
It was a particularly low point in my life actually. I had recently had my first baby and was working in a department with spectacularly unsupportive senior staff. But by half way through 2000 I had a consultant post in a completely different part of the country. I've never looked back. On reflection, the horrors of NYE 1999 were instrumental in my decision not to apply for a job in that region, and also that I would never, under any circumstances, treat my juniors like I was treated. So it had a huge impact on my life. Entirely for the better I think.

I went to a party with my then boyfriend at a snooker club we used to go to. Had fun, got drunk and then staggered home about 2am ready to get up again to work a 13 hour shift at 7 very excited to be getting triple pay. Had alot more energy back then!

I vividly remember watching the fire works out of the window. I was 7 and upset we hadn’t gone to the big family party... but my sibling was about 8 weeks old and my DM hated those family members (as an adult I get why 👍🏻)!

@thenewaveragebear1983 they were good days, weren't they? Loved the que club!

Everywhere was over charging so I threw a dinner party (I even bought a book about how to throw a millennium party) and invited lots of friends who all stayed over as none of them had DC. A couple even slept on a futon we'd put in the kitchen. There was lots of champagne and we let off fireworks in the garden, DS1 was a baby and miraculously slept through it all.

I was 10. I remember being out in the town center with my family, very joyful and friendly atmosphere. People climbing and dancing on phone boxes etc.

Good memory.

I sat by myself on the hill by Alexandra Palace with a hip flask of whiskey. My boyfriend had been killed by a drunk driver in the October and I felt my world had collapsed. I couldn’t bear being sociable and going out parting. Fortunately I didn’t drink myself into oblivion as I had to go into work the next morning just in case the millennium bug attacked

I still have a silent toast to the heavens at new year to a kind, funny, sweet man who should still be living his life. #dontdrinkanddrive

Lovely thread MAFIL that was a hard shift. Especially with a new baby at home. The thing that stood out for me though was that the rest of your team (at your base hospital) had waited for you. That must have given you a little (stale!?) crumb of comfort.
crosser yours was heart-warming to read too. Particularly the happy ending. 😇

Bumfuzzled - that's so sad. I'm sorry for your loss.

We spent the evening with friends, had a takeaway and played board games then at midnight went outside to watch the fireworks.

Sadly, I have a suspicion said friends' marriage is either on the rocks or under great strain as everything we've seen them recently they haven't been happy at all and for the first time in three decades we haven't seen them during the Christmas period. I hope I'm wrong because I love them both dearly.

I worked in IT, supporting large Enterprise customers. We were doing special shifts in the office in case the Y2K bug took down the systems we supported. We were allowed to bring our partners into the office, so my husband and I (sober) watched some fireworks from the office window, and then prepared to bed down in our sleeping bags. Thankfully we then got told we could go home - since Australia and Asia hadn't had any serious Y2K problems they feel figured it was all going to be OK! It felt different, although not exciting.

At a murder mystery dinner party - it was fun.