The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for October 14, 2022

Yeah, I remember waiting up to watch the news that night. Nothing happened. It was a big nothingburger.

I was too young to care about the new millennium, so I can’t relate to the whole Y2K thing. But if I was old enough, I’d be pretty nervous or maybe apathetic.

It wasn’t such a big panic in the western hemisphere when we saw fireworks and all the lights still on in Sydney at midnight their time.

There were things that needed to be fixed. However, a lot of what the doom mongers were talking about never was a problem. Like anti-lock brake systems. Those don’t know nor care about the date. If they did, then every time you swapped the battery in the card the clock would be reset and the date would be wrong.

We had a quiet little party, (There were non-Huey kids there).

I remember that night vividly. I sat there waiting for something to happen. Nothing did.