Stuck in 2009?

11:55 had me all excited, I wanted to be the one to initiate the countdown. So whenever any one asked me "What time is it??" I replied "It's not time yet." and tried to appear eerily inconspicuous. At 11:58 I everyone appeared eerily inconspicuous, so I called the local talking clock to get the exact time to the second, my watch was right to the second, quite understandably so too because I'd spent an hour and 6 bucks the previous day making that orientation. For the first time in 16 years I was going to be the one to say "10..." with exactly 10 seconds left. The first 13 I didn't really care, on the 14th I started late, on the 15th I started early. This would be the only perfect chance I'd ever have to redeem myself for 3 reasons:

Firstly, the new-year's eve for 2010 was a blue moon new years eve. Literally. 31st December 2009 was the first blue moon of my life and basic probability states that such an event come ONCE in 12 blue moons,
Second, It's my second last chance to do the countdown if the world really will be ending in 2012,
Lastly, 'Two Thousand and Ten' just sounds frackin' awesome and I wanted to end the countdown with "WELCOME TO TWO THOUSAND AND TEN!!!!!!".

That aside, seeing the river of still eerily inconspicuous faces before me and being a Poker freshman I announced "11:59!!!!!". Nobody winked. I decided to count to 50. So I closed my eyes. 1...2...3...and my mind shifted, I thought of her, smiled and forgot where I was, took a fleeting glance at my watch and started counting again: 23...24...25............49...50. I opened my eyes I glanced at my watch "25 seconds left???" , I thought. Counting to 15 then, I closed my eyes 1...2...and then someone shouted "10!!!", then everybody shouted "9!!!", then "8!!!". I took more than a cursory glance, infact an almost entirely frantic and hateful, even deadly glance at my watch. Still 25 seconds to go. "5!!!", "4!!!". I cursed, I breathed, cursed again, breathed again, realized that the only reason I was breathing so hard was so that i could curse more and cursed again. I'd lost. "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!".



Well, the party's over, Its 3:00 AM. Now I've recovered and I've decided that I'm gonna get my watch fixed and until I see those last 25 seconds go by, my new year will not begin. But to everybody else, Happy New Year! =)