To ask what you would have been doing now... in 2002

[GunslingerPie]

I’m 18...Saturday night I would now be listening to Blue and DJ Sammy getting ready to go out to the local.
I’m wearing a two-tone halterneck top, leather look trousers (size 8.. sigh) with a tassle belt. Patent wedges and my hair straightened with my Babyliss steam straighteners! Gold eyeshadow like the one Kylie wears in the “On a Night Like This” video...

Necking a bottle of 20/20 and cheap red wine.

I’ll go out with about £8 in my pocket, dance to Fragma and S Club 7, drink loads of crap (free!) thanks to my school friend who works behind the bar then cadge a couple of Regals to smoke on my way home

24 and working in a 'wine shop', not the best job for a recent graduate but a management position. Still in a relationship with someone who would break up with me after cheating in a few months time (did me a favour really!). Pretty footloose and fancy free. First real disposable income after being a student and very few financial responsibilities.

To the pp who mentioned illegal raves....how/where did you go to the loo?? I'm a festival goer but at least there are (minging, admittedly) toilets. Genuinely intrigued!

I did go to some questionable unregulated clubs with very bizarre toilets...e.g. no hinged toilet doors just the loose door to prop up against the frame. We were so smashed it didn't really matter!

Asleep, because I would've had nursery in the morning

I was 20 and in 2nd year of uni
Probably our on the town with my friends drinking vodka and cranberry and smoking regal filter (in the bars / clubs 🙀) thinking we were cool as fuck!
Then home to my house where my mum always had soup and toasties waiting for us and a nice warm bed with a hot water bottle!
Would wake up tomorrow with zero hangover and able to do a shift at my part time job without thinking I was about to die!!!

Planning my wedding.

Where's the Delorean when you need one?

@Batteredoldchesterfield you can pee when you're high on pills anyway... or so I've heard.

I was 21 at uni would have been dressed up and out with my besties at either budz bar or Amadeus nightclub both in Aberdeen. Both had great cheesy tunes and cheap booze would have headed home to city centre flat via the 24 hour shop for a tuna mayo bap and pickled onion space raiders

katey87 I did....and a 'pill poo' was the most amazing experience!! 🤣😂

Woops got your name wrong, sorry!

I would be 11 and probably would be asleep in my bedroom I shared with my twin sister after reading some Harry Potter!

26. My boyfriend, who I lived with, dumped me the day before my birthday. Moved into a house share and gearing up for a job interview that would completely change my life. Lots of vodka and coke. And coke.

I was heavily pregnant awaiting the birth of my miracle baby.
He’s just had his 16th birthday party. At my house!!

I was 4 and probably learning how to write my name or something.

Ah, what an interesting nostalgia filled thread! Though depressing that all the clubs have now closed and 17 year olds these days are probably all staying in with their noses in phones. I would've been in my last year of university, listening to the strokes, necking cheap cider before heading to town.

25. In the dying months of a bad relationship that I knew was bad but had no clue how to end because I loved him. We were probably in a pub in Leeds with his friends. If I was at home on my own, because he had better things to do. I'm 1000% happier now.

To the pp who mentioned illegal raves....how/where did you go to the loo??

A few, better organised raves actually had chemical loos.

Most you went in bushes/behind cars etc.

Tbh there is nothing dignified about pilling your tits off anyway so it never bothered me!

'pill poo' was the most amazing experience!!

Pill shits were fucking amazing.

Weird stuff really when you think about it.

Used to give me the feeling I was wearing a hat

"Hat head" we used to call it.

As in
"Oh dude I'm so wasted I've got hat head"

I’m 28, turning 29 in a fortnight. Own my own flat, good job, but in and out of disastrous relationships. I’m probably having a night in with my friend, drinking wine, eating crisps, having already had a pizza, generally putting the world to rights.

Tonight I am also drinking wine, but in my pyjamas, with DP and our cat. 28 year old me would never believe she would ever actually meet a genuinely good man, and definitely never own a cat, having always had dogs!

@peppy - I used to work at Baa Bar! Manc or Liverpool?

Planning to leave my ex husband.

I was 15, probs trying to get into the local skanky nightclub by wearing something very low cut... although if i remember we used to go out on a Friday night then spend Saturday's drinking tea and smoking... sat night was probs spent watching pop idol or other crap at home eating crisps!

I’d be queuing up in a 30 minute nightclub queue, chatting to anyone, in the bastard cold, waiting to get into the club to down a shot of aftershock.

Grab two beers at a time to avoid the bar queue and dance whilst juggling said bottles plus a cigarette.

Every Saturday without fail.

Brilliant times but I’m equally as happy to be in my pjs now I’m old and fucked

Yes! LanaKanesTerfyVagina please tell me you tried one of those weird wiry spidery things called an 'orgasmatron' when pilling? Was a head messager type thing that was quite nice when straight but IMMENSE when on decent pills (back in the day when they actually cost more than a couple of quid).

And Katee87 I've now remembered 'stage-fright' when trying to pee when clubbing. I'd forgotten about that. Was a total PITA when at a festival with a fruitless and time wasting trek to the loos. Fixed by the invention of Travel Johns....MARVELLOUS product for camping/festivals.

I'm 34, back in London, trying to find a permanent home and a job. Right now I'd be in bed.

My DD was exactly a week old , DS was nearly 3, and it was one of the happiest weeks of our lives.

Age 35, up to my neck in full-time motherhood, with a toddler and an 8-month-old baby. Admiring my new engagement ring and starting to plan my impending wedding. Living in a lovely terraced cottage with wondeful neighbours.