The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for October 02, 2022

I remember the scare around Y2K, but the worst thing that happened in my area was the cash registers at a local supermarket resetting the receipt dates to 1900.

It’s a good thing I was too young to care about Y2K back then.

Y2K was fake news. Apple computers were Y2K ready from the middle 80s.

Everybody was buying generators before Y2K. Diesel and Propane were hard to get. I bought a 5500 watt Gas generator at Home Depot, and waited for the lights to go out. Nothing happened as we all know. I lived out in the country, and had a fridge and a freezer. That generator had about 100 hours on it over the next 20 years.

Y2K “calamity” was a hoax and many men, yes men, who are con artists, made enough money for their doomsday predictions to tide them over until the next dreamed up calamity.

My nephew was all up in arms about it, and that’s when he became a “survivor”.

When I found out, I asked him: “You have a mortgage, when is it up?”

He replied: “2003.”

So I said: “Well? Don’t you see that the bank has it already figured out?”

“Oh,” he grumbled.

But that didn’t convice him, because he fell for that boogaboo about all the power grids failing. Well, we know what happened. And all those hucksters did a lot of backtracking and how all the powers-that-be were the ones spreading the fear, and they were just making those fears public. As if…

As for the nephew and his his family, he’s still a “surivor” and he is a perfect example of a person who falls for every conspiracy that’s out there. He’s proud of describing how he’ll survive in spite of all.

Y2K wasn’t a hoax. Ask all the COBOL programmers, who had previously been kicked to the curb for all the new programming languages, who were begged to come back to work or come out of retirement. $$$

The reason not much happened for Y2K is because people worked their @sses off to make sure it didn’t happen.