As someone who was a teenager in Merseyside in the Noughties, I can vouch that it certainly had its perks, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t the occasional time when something would happen and my day would be immediately ruined.
In the 2000s, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, and Justin Timberlake were among those topping the charts. Unlike teenagers today, we didn’t share every moment of our lives on Instagram, and we weren’t glued to TikTok.
Nearly every teen in the Noughties owned a Nintendo, and MSN was considered a hobby with many of us wasting hours after school or college chatting to friends we’d spent the whole day with. Facebook 'pokes' and FarmVille were a thing, and Netflix hadn’t become an online streaming service yet.
READ MORE:
Lost Liverpool supermarket that offered 'good food made easy' in the 90s and 00s
Eerie photos of abandoned Woolton Hall include hanging artwork and battered antiques
Below is a list of 19 things that happened to either myself or friends in the Noughties that were considered so unfortunate at the time it was enough to ruin our day. Some were bound to happen to teens across the UK, while others are unique to Liverpool and Wirral.
Looking back, they were very trivial, but at the time, they were incredibly irritating. Oh, how I miss those days of being a teen and there being nothing more important to worry about.
1. Wearing your new knock-off UGG boots from St Johns Market and it chucking it down, leaving your boots ruined and your feet soaking.
2. Your iPod running out of battery ahead of a long journey.
3. Recording a song on your phone to make it your ringtone and someone talks halfway through.
4. Seeing yourself in the mirror and realising how orange your Dream Matte Mousse Foundation made you look - bonus points if you didn’t blend it into your neck and also applied it to your lips!
5. Your charity silicone wristbands snapping (who else had the yellow Livestrong bracelet?).
6. Getting kicked off the computer so your mum or dad could use the telephone.
7. Being asked for ID when trying to get away with a Merseyrail child’s ticket.
8. Receiving hundreds of FarmVille requests on Facebook a day.
9. Also being 'poked' on Facebook hundreds of times a day.
10. Spending hours browsing Blockbuster only to find they’ve ran out of copies of the DVD you wanted to rent.
11. Going for a meal at Est Est Est in Heswall and being too old to be given a chef’s hat.
12. Accidentally pressing the internet button on your mobile and fearing it will charge your parents hundreds of pounds.
13. Wanting to play on the Wii Fit and it telling you that you were obese.
14. Having to wait hours for songs to download from LimeWire.
15. Finding out a film you’ve rented from Netflix or LoveFilm is going to take weeks to arrive in the post.
16. Someone non-stop sending you a ‘nudge’ or ‘knock’ on MSN.
17. Discovering one of your Nintendogs has ran away after you accidentally neglected them for weeks.
18. The fancy keychain snapping off your Paul’s Boutique handbag.
19. Someone stealing your song on your MySpace/Bebo/Tumblr page.
What ruined your day if you were a teen in the Noughties? Let us know in the comments section below.
For more nostalgia stories, sign up to our Liverpool Echo newsletter here.
Receive newsletters with the latest news, sport and what's on updates from the Liverpool ECHO by signing up here.
Read next:
- Former rail worker shares fascinating photos of Lime Street Station from 1979 to 1991
- Seven Liverpool shops that have been around so long it defies all logic
- Fascinating photos show how Merseyside's streets have changed since the Queen's reign began in 1952
- Village was submerged under water without locals even being asked
- Relive your Merseyside school days with these iconic playground games we loved
