Do You Remember What YOU Were doing?

 Do you remember Dec. 31, 1999, when the media picked up on some techie person's prediction that when the calendar changed to the year 2000 life as we knew it would come to an end?  

In anticipation of that we thought we should put together a time capsule with three friend couples.  

We had the can, we brought things to contribute, we had a big last supper, we filled the can and the next day, after we lived, I put in photos of the evening and sealed it.  We agreed to get together again in 20 years to open it.  Well, that was covid and then other things happened so we couldn't get to the grand opening till today.

I wasn't sure if I was unleashing a genie or King Tut's remains as I lifted the lid.  None of us could remember either doing this activity in the first place or what they contributed.  I remembered because it was in my care for 24 years. 

                                                                                 No genie. 

                                                                   Marge and Harry

                             Roger and Beth, who now live in Illinois so couldn't be with us today.

                                                                   Sue and Paul

                                                                                 PH and me

                            The first thing I pulled out was a newspaper from Dec. 31, 1999

The second thing was the newspaper from Jan. 1, 2000.  It was obvious the world didn't implode as predicted.

This packet of photos was taken that night for the most part, and the other were photos of our family PH and I put in the can.  We were so much younger, less gray, thinner. Remarkably so.  Our kids weren't married yet so no grandkids yet. 

Besides the newspapers  I pulled out an empty candy bag, some coins, a disintegrating hat with the Jeep logo, a poem about living the dash in your life, a review copy of a Harry Potter book, a pen from a former employ, a card from the game Risk, an unopened deck of cards, a corkscrew with wine cork attached, a cork from champagne which we drank that night, a little owl, a magazine, all of the Christmas cards PH and I received that year, and that was it.   And other than the hat, we can't remember who contributed what.  It was a bit anti-climactic. 

One of the photos I put in was this one of Sue, Marge and Me.  We went through grade school together so for over 60+ years we've been friends.

What started out as a day promising laughs, well, that was delivered.  As for the time capsule?  I was the one who said it aloud, If those trinkets were the best we could come up with, "boy were we boring!!"  But in the end, it really was and is the fact we are life long friends. 

We are the time capsule, not the trinkets we put in a can.