Chapter 124: Dust in the Wind, Part 1

Elgin National Cafeteria, Monday, January 3, 2038

"See Rose, I told you the Unix Millennium Bug was nothing but a bunch of cow spit," said Howie to Centehua. "It was so disappointing. I thought for sure things would start exploding or burning up at the stroke of midnight."

"The same thing happened thirty-eight years ago when they had the Y2K scare," answered Centehua. "Did you really want your mini-tab or your appliances to start on fire?"

"Yeah, we need something exciting to happen around this place...hashtag, boring." Howie said as he took a huge bite of his burger.

"Where did that old hashtag saying come from, anyway?" asked Centehua.

"I dunno, something from our parent's time I think."