The Y2K Bug Delayed My Honeymoon ... By 17 Years!
The Register, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
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A reader we'll Regomize as 'Barb' who showed up for Y2K duty carrying a bottle of champagne, which rather upset her boss who had laid in sparkling grape juice to keep the on call crew sober.
Barb was having none of it and fair enough, because she married just 12 days before Y2K eve and postponed her honeymoon to work that night.
'This event comes once a century and this special one, once in a millennium, so I'm having a real toast,' she told the boss, and then made a concession by promising to share the bubbles with the entire team, in very small doses that would not impact anybody's work.