Back to reality
Waking up on the first morning of the new Millennium, two thoughts were running through my mind. The first was how unbelievably ill I felt after the party previous night and the second was a slight feeling of disappointment that the world hadn’t ended, since that meant I had to get myself out of the bed and go to work! Yes, believe it or not the office furniture London warehouse I was working at in 2000 had asked us to come in on January 1 to do a stock take before the sales started. Happy New Year!
So that probably explains why I was the only person on the planet who felt a bit let down that Y2K hadn’t set off all the nuclear weapons and destroyed civilisation as we know it. Well, maybe not the only person. I’m sure there were a few weirdoes out there who had created their own little cult around Y2K and the end of the world; I was more interested in avoiding a day at work with the hangover from hell…
So, the world was still in one piece when I awoke, but I still had one small glimmer of hope on that morning of January 1. Maybe the nuclear weapons had stayed securely in their bunkers, but there was still the possibility that computers across the world had been rendered useless by the Millennium Bug. Lying in bed with my head pounding and my stomach churning, I was praying for a call from the deputy manager – of course the manager had given himself the day off – to tell me that we couldn’t do a stock take as all the equipment at the warehouse had mysteriously crashed at midnight. Sadly, the call never came and I spent the day stuck inside a dingy office furniture storage unit feeling like death barely warmed up. Great way to start the Millennium!
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