Two Thousand

I remember when we reached 2000.
Many believed that on that New Year’s Eve,
just as soon as  we’d given the old heave
-ho to 1999 (and the band

of the Scots Guard had played Auld Lang Syne on
Jools Holland’s Hootenanny) havoc would
be wreaked by the Millennium Bug. Could
the little blighter cause the destruction

of the World Wide Web? If banking systems
failed, all records lost, would that be goodbye
money? Would planes now fall out of the sky?
(At least it would rid us of online scams!).

We feared 2000 would tear us asunder.
It turned out to just be a number.


When Numbers Get Serious