Mornings (or before work)

Posted by Snoo_96358@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 45 comments

It's the early 2000s and you're getting ready for work. No kids, so whenever that is for you and you've checked your computer for the weather (if you have one). Now you've got 15 min before you have to go....what are you doing? I'm currently on my phone with 15 min before I have to go trying to remember what id be doing...laundry or cleaning id guess, maybe listening to music.

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Salt-Amoeba7331@reddit

Watch the local news on tv!

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undeniably_micki@reddit

Um in the early 2000s I had a kid but I also delivered newspapers & was up @1:30am every morning - no such thing as an extra 15. If I had an extra 15, I'm closing my eyes!

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

Same - I had a 3 year old and worked a few jobs back then including custodial for her Montessori preschool so I could afford it. I’d get up at 4 am to clean the school, then be home in time to get her up and fed and off to preschool, then go to my second job at the nearby college art department which was also part-time. I’d sell newspapers door to door in the evening, trying to set up subscriptions, while my then husband fed her dinner and then I’d be home in time for bath and bed and it’d start all over again. I was exhausted.

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tulips_onthe_summit@reddit

I'd probably leave early.

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any_glen_will_do@reddit

I was listening to Howard Stern. Probably rushing around since I was late a lot for work back then.

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wooksquatch@reddit

I believe in just in time for everything so the 15 minutes prior to me leaving is me rolling out of bed, dressing and making coffee to go. I still do this today, except it's about an hour and a half earlier and without an alarm.

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Winter-eyed@reddit

I did have 2 kids and any spare time I had before leaving was spent making sire their alarms were on and they had their clothes and bags and breakfast ready to go

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jerseycirce@reddit

This. I had no spare minutes in the early 2000s.

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BrotherQuartus@reddit

Heading to the subway. I lived one stop from Manhattan so it was beyond packed when it arrived at my station. Often I couldn’t fit in, so I would have to take the train across the platform for 8 stops in the wrong direction, in order to fit in and hopefully find a seat to read. If I got to work early, I sat at a bench in the nearby park and read an extra chapter or two.

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Fit-Tap7111@reddit

Watching the morning news

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Last-Relationship166@reddit

I'm just hitting the road. I had a mfing 1.5 hour commute (1 way!)

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umeboshiplumpaste@reddit

Love this question! I was doing one of the following:

Talking to strangers in a Yahoo Messenger chat room for indie music
Reading articles and short stories, and looking at cool photoshoots from the online version of Nerve Magazine (touted-ish as "smart sex/culture stuff for smart, sexy people") and writing messages to men on Nerve's online dating platform

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Stinkysnarly@reddit

Always reading a novel until the last second. Now I read my phone

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Sepa-Kingdom@reddit

This is me.

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shiny1988@reddit

House hunters!

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Cisru711@reddit

Sportscenter highlights until it's time to go.

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Spiritual_Crow409@reddit

I’d be watching the news getting ready to head out to work with my last cup of coffee.

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Sintered_Monkey@reddit

I am honestly not sure. Lunches were a lot cheaper back then, even scaled for inflation, so I wasn't packing my lunch as I do now. I can't imagine that I checked email on my dial-up connection. I guess I just headed out the door.

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threedogdad@reddit

I'm not going to sit around wasting time, I'd leave asap. Back then the earlier I start the commute the better.

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CableSufficient2788@reddit

Watching wgn morning news

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OkGeologist2229@reddit

I would probably have smoked a bowl.

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aKIMIthing@reddit

Stop it🤭🤭🤭

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OkGeologist2229@reddit

😂😂

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MaximumJones@reddit

I was usually already at work as everyone else was getting out of bed.

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Bahlore@reddit

Early 2000's I did have a kid; I was in Germany. So I'd be getting my coffee ready and checking email to see if any last min changes came in over night; then going into work and working out for a few hours.

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mary_wren11@reddit

Listening to NPR (which I'm doing now), watching mtv, going to the corner store to buy a paper.

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Lemon-Cake-8100@reddit

Watching Katie, Matt & Al banter on the Today show.

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vulgrin@reddit

I’d be wondering why I got up an extra 15 minutes early and probably just left early.

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handsomeape95@reddit

Exactly this. I always had to wake up to an alarm and had the timing down so I'd have just enough time to get ready and arrive at work on time. Now I'm just wide awake at 4:30.

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Vivid-Teacher4189@reddit

I’d have just left early, bought a newspaper or a magazine and waited for my train or taken the one before it. If I got into the city a bit earlier, I’d get off a stop earlier grab a coffee and walk the rest of the way to work. If I got in a bit late we had no way of letting anyone know other than a public telephone anyway, so we just got there when we got there.

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LuceLeakey@reddit

In the early 2000s I had a 1 hour commute to work, so I would be eating and packing a lunch as fast as I could to get on the road so I could be there on time.

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aaron_grice@reddit

Watching the Weather Channel, because I’m the grandson of two former farmers,a weather nerd (just set my new Tempest yesterday - had much simpler LaCrosse unit (wired!) back then), had a front-row seat for the Mississippi flooding of 1993, and Sharon Resultan made good company after my wife headed to her job about 30 minutes ago.

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fridayimatwork@reddit

Tv on

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REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

Walking with my coffee out to the waterfront. At the time, I was living in a trailer park on an inland lake, that they had forgotten to raise the rents on since the '80s. That last cup of coffee would be enjoyed while watching the fog lift. Then I'd climb into my Geo and buzz off to my $6.50/hr job.

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brockclan216@reddit

Brushing my teeth

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Pepinocucumber1@reddit

Having a cigarette.

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aharryh@reddit

How early 2000s? Waiting for the bus, bloody things would run early, reading the news paper.

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MhojoRisin@reddit

I used to watch TechTV getting ready in the morning. I loved the morning reporting on what was new with the Internet & Silicon Valley.

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CauliflowerLonely799@reddit

I’m always rushing because I’m late

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ownersastoner@reddit

Reading the paper

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temerairevm@reddit

Just zoning out probably. Or more accurately for me I never leave myself any extra time in the morning so I’d have slept 15 minutes longer.

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Fragrant-Flan-416@reddit

what is this 15 minutes of which you speak:-) ? I would have been asleep until the absolute last second. What I think I would have done while I was drinking my coffee was checking the Puget Sound web site to see which way to drive to work (pre google maps, but some basic sensor data was available +/- real time)

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