Were you afraid of the year 2000 and the bad things people thought would be the outcome of it?

I was more concerned about the effects of hysterical people afraid something bad was going to happen - and even that wasn't as serious as I expected.

I had some concern toward the end of 1999, but I was on top of a high mountain with my sword that night. I was way too happy to worry.

Yes, I was a little worried but I still flew on New Years Eve and I still went out and partied in Phoenix. When the clocks struck 12 I was on top of the hands in a mosh pit!

I was nervous, but as the time drew nearer felt reassured.

No, of course not.

the most thought i gave it was to laugh at my 'drew's bro. he made this tape with "it's the end of the world as we know it" (REM) on it over and over and over and we listened to it all the way to Atlantic City... when the clock struck midnight i was accepting my lover for his first time and rediscovering life... nothing bad could happen even if we Had ceased to exist at that moment

i was a little bit scared

I wasn't really afraid, because I knew I couldn't control what happened. But I did stock up on supplies and food, just in case some things did happen. I did have fear for my children though.

Story: The subliminal content of advertising at the time made me concerned that a conspiracy existed to have people thin the masses. Also a dream came to me in which someone went catatonic on the first because armageddon 'didnt' happen. So I thought I might have some ministry work to do. I've seen the work that the programmers at Bank of America and Pacific Bell do, so I knew that the Y2K bug itself wouldn't be a problem. In case people chose to go crazy for a few days, I somewhat secretly put together a pantry to last my apartment building a week or two. I'm quite glad because I've discovered it saves a lot of money. Now, I only buy shelf items when they are incredibly cheap. I also came to SC for the first time to find out in my first survey "How are you preparing for the new millenium/armageddon" to find out if there was an unspoken fever or not. (Thanks for answering).
What did concern me was that I knew the technology existed in both spirit and science to reform our planet, much as we could annihilate it in the 50's. My obsession with HARP (Star Wars) in october led to my finding a top person on the project, seeing it demonstrated over the LA,ca,us ocean, and finding it had been part of the agenda of Alice Bailey, Sanat Kumara, and the space brotherhood, all of whom I mistook for evil at the time, having just worked for a billionaire occultist who taught Bailey's works which were published by the 'Lucifer Publishing Company'. The group was/is(?) awaiting the second coming of lucifer whom they call christ, spreading joy & love. HARP, in case you don't know is tesla technology in which targeted energy can transmute matter. I spent new-years with my family in fairbanks,ak,us, which because it is next to HARPS main test site, you can't be sure whethar the aurora you are watching is man-made or not. At midnight, we launched fireworks. The one I lit went off course and was smothered in my parka as I made a prayer that the sattelite defense system would go off line just in case. Weeks later I heard in the news that the only significant Y2K bug had been defense sattelites going off line (Which had been kept secret till fixed for security reasons).

I thought it was pretty unlikely that anything bad would happen around here, but I was a little bit concerned terrorism. Our place in New Hampshire is already set up to use generators (although only as of last fall) but that's because it's not all that unlikely that we could lose power for a good long time in the dead of winter.

I didn't think anything bad would happen, but I did stock up on non-perishables and water just in case, as it was not very difficult to do.

I figured any glitches that would happen would be short ones, and that the real danger would be from people panicking, so I packed my car with about a week's supply of stuff so that I could head someplace quiet and be self-sufficient until things calmed.

I decided to keep the stash of water and canned/packaged food in my car trunk thereafter, in case of whatever unknowns.

Oh ya! When I was going through the security gates on New Years Eve, they searched all my bags and no one else! I don't know why they would pick me out of them, maybe because I looked like a hippie or something, I don't know.

I was run through security on New Years day in Alaska. It's that antique lead-lined dental x-ray box in which I carry a crystal, a brass phoenix/alladin lamp, & a black horus statuette. There's nothing they can say about it. Little do they know, I use it for opening wormholes. The last time I used it I reversed the compass polarity of part of my living room. That was half a year ago. The furnishings have moved since, but I just now checked and a compass reading is still about 20 degrees off there.
Also, unlike other packages, ie one's mom sent to AK, the christmas packages I sent up to AK had special security inspection label on them.

Oh please...

lol

How about some middle ground -- an "I wasn't sure what would happen" option?

For me it was just another New Year. Another night to get far too drunk and wake up in a strange place.

Having said that, one of the (many and varied) things that was going through my mind at the time concerned those people who were so sure something bad would happen that they locked themselves away in a purpose-built concrete bunker (a la Cuban Missile Crisis).

I wonder if any of them are still there???

icu: now that's funny. The'll incestuously breed mutant's down there till some form of armageddon forces them to open the doors at the year 3000 and join our progenitor in heaven.

I laughed at the Y2K bug hysteria. It was so obvious that the media loves that kind of story and would blow it out of proportion. One of my former roommates actually believed (I'm serious) that all the elevators in the world were going to plummet to the basement at the stroke of midnight. (This guy also thinks that Bacon wrote all the works attributed to Shakespeare.)

I was planning a run on the bank, just for fun, but I never got around to it.

No. I knew nothing would happen and I laughed at all the people that wasted their money on generators and all that survival stuff.
But I was afraid that some idiots would do something drastic in order to make a name for themselves. With all the terrorist scares and stuff around the US.