Starting The Year Over Easy

It’s New Year’s Day, and our friendship group is having our first meal of the year. We’re recounting interesting New Year celebrations of our past.

Me: “Anyone remember Y2K?”

Friend #1: “Yeah, that s*** scared so many people.”

Friend #2: “I just remember everyone being amazed about the millennium changing. I was ten, so I didn’t get the magnitude, but it was insane. All our family friends had come over, so maybe seventy people. Dancing until 5 AM and several grandmas doing the Macarena in unison. We still find the glitter from that party in the nooks and crannies of the house. Everyone had a blast and only left once my dad suggested breakfast.”

Friend #1: “Why? Is he that bad of a cook?”

All of us stopped to look at him.

Friend #1: “What?”