Hello from 2020

[misskarne]

Just gone midnight.

Time for a new decade!

 

[Cachoo]

Howdy! We have some hours to go yet. Happy New Year!

 

[Kasey]

Happy new year to you!

 

[kalamalka]

Happy New Year to the large chunks of the world that are already in 2020. We still have 7 1/2 hours to wait. And I wish we could send misskarne and the rest of the Australians some of the rain we've been getting today!

 

[Buzz]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

 

[KatieC]

I have 15 minutes to go. Happy 2020. Contemplating a no shopping year.

 

[missing]

Happy 2020. I've been looking forward to it since at least 1999.

I have a long list of people I'd like to see vanish from the face of the earth and a short list of people I'd like to see taking over in their place. I'll know better in November if my New Year's Day wishes have come true.

In the meantime, I wish for everybody here, whether I agree with them or not, a year filled with joyous surprises and deep dish everyday contentment.

 

[attyfan]

Happy New Year to all ...

 

[Vagabond]

Still living in 2019 here. ?‍

#stuckinthepast
#untilthebitterend

Happy New Year, one and all! ? ? ?

 

[mjb52]

Jeez, will we ever reach 2020, it's still 2019 here.

 

[kalamalka]

Almost there!

 

[Japanfan]

12:03 am in the Pacific Northwest. ? Cheers!

 

[mjb52]

soooooo many fireworks, happy new year! May all your dreams come true unless your dream is your favorite skaters beating my favorite skaters in which case may all your dreams come true except that one lol!

 

[skatesindreams]

I'll know better in November if my New Year's Day wishes have come true.

In the meantime, I wish for everybody here, whether I agree with them or not, a year filled with joyous surprises and deep dish everyday contentment.

You speak for me, as well.

 

[Susan1]

What is wrong with people? They are just as disgusting as in 2019. I was dropping off library books so I could just park in front while they are closed and went by Big Lots. That is where I got my "planner" last year, so I thought I'd check. It's just a month per page thing that I make notes in, like when they mow the grass and stuff. So they had ONE - $3 same as last year.

I got up to the checkout and a mother and two maybe 13-14 years olds were there. The boy was telling the mother that the girl cussed out some little kid IN THE STORE. And while the mother was checking out, the girl kept turning around and pointing at her and flipping her off (both fingers) and they were laughing. Obviously the kid (they said her) was with adults - in the furniture section. I did not even turn around to see what they looked like. I was kinda hoping the parents would come up and smack the girl around. ha ha

So I get into the car. There were only maybe five other cars in the whole parking lot and I parked on the other side of the cart corral so I could pull forward. I put the car in gear and this big guy parked right in front of me. He could have parked in any of the 3 spaces closer to the store on his side or the 10 or so farther away in that aisle. I sighed and leaned my head back and rolled my eyes. INSIDE MY CAR. He just happened to be looking at me and started yelling at ME and giving me the finger. I wasn't even looking at him, but I waited till he got up by the door to even back up. I had to pull up that aisle toward the store and I put my hand up to shield my eyes so I could see if anyone was coming from the left. He must have thought I was making some kind of gesture to him like he did to me and he started flipping me off and yelling again. I wasn't even looking straight ahead. I just turned and left. I kept looking in my rear view mirror to make sure he wasn't following me.
Happy freakin' New Year.

 

[Susan1]

Just a reminder - I keep seeing reports of how you are supposed to write the year as 2020 when you write the date as x/x/20 because someone could fill in two numbers to look like 2021 or 2019 and make official things invalid.

I already did that with my check to Kohl's before I even saw the report. I just thought it made it easier to remember to not write 2019.

Is anyone else old enough to remember when checks and forms said Date__________, 19___?

 

[MacMadame]

I find it weird that a big deal is being made about that. It was true last year too with writing /19 and I never saw a single story about it.

Of course, now that it's been all over the news, criminals have the idea in their heads so now I have to write 2020 even if I think it's stupid.

 

[KatieC]

I have started writing out the month as well because I'm tired of debating if it's yyyy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yyyy. Or even mm/dd/yy. So I write Jan 3 '20. No one has complained yet.

 

[manhn]

My workplace told us not to write the date like Jan 7/20. Instead, write it like Jan 7/2020. That’s because someone could amend the first date as Jan 7/2018 or Jan 7/2006.