It can be considered funny or sad, based on how one chooses to look at it, how a minor detail can be blown out of proportion. For instance, in the mid nineteen-nineties there was a growing interest in a supposed glitch in the computers’ chronometric function. Such interest was being fed by the media until it turned into fear, which was rising to panic level as the year nineteen ninety-nine was concluding, and the year two thousand was coming.

Such panic over a computer function had, since I first heard about it, seemed like foolishness to me, considering that computers really didn’t care, and still don’t unless they’re programmed to, what millennium, century, decade, year, or whatever, they were in; they were going to work no matter what. And, I took to making fun of this so-called Y2K bug. And, as it turns out, I wasn’t the only one. I would learn, when the year two thousand had come and gone, that others had poked fun at the supposed bug and the panic that it generated.

It was while this kind of nonsense was going on in the rest of the world, and so many sources were drawing so much unnecessary attention to it, that, round about the second Christmas that Pinkie Pie was living with me, I found a letter in the spot where Pinkie Pie had first appeared. Actually, I think it was Pinkie who found it there.

I unrolled the letter and read, “To Mormon Iarere Andreassen:

“We will be delayed in picking Pinkie Pie up from your care. Her sister, Maud, has sent us a letter that she’s coming as soon as possible to be part of the group that brings her back to Equestria. Unfortunately, this means that we won’t be able to arrive until three days, or in your time, three years, later than planned.

“Please let Pinkie Pie know that we’re sorry for the delay. But, her sister was insistent on coming with us. In fact, she is on her way here by boat, and then by train.

“Signed, Princess Celestia Princess Luna.”

Based on the tone of the letter, my guess is the information inside was supposed to be bad news. But, neither Pinkie Pie nor I took it that way.

Pinkie Pie took the news from the letter to mean that she was going to stay longer with me, and I took it to mean that I might just get information on some of Pinkie Pie’s mannerisms from what I was guessing would be the only relative of hers that was coming.

Whatever the case was, Pinkie Pie and I were going to get not seven, but a total of ten years together. And, by that point, Pinkie Pie was pretty much an adult anyway.

Now, back to the Y2K bug scare, which to this day I believe must’ve been a hoax, both Pinkie and I, on New Year’s Eve of nineteen ninety-nine, stayed awake to watch the news and get people’s responses to how the supposed glitch had proven to be nothing to worry about after all. Well, as it turns out, the worst damage done was some slot machines in Kentucky, or some place like that, had broken down; and it might not have even been related to the supposed glitch. But, even if it was, it seems to me that it was more of a benefit than a serious threat.

Even nowadays, there are evidently still people who think the Y2K bug was something to be worried about. On the other hand, to this day, I personally think the computers would’ve continued working no matter what time and place they were in, or thought they were in. Like I said before, it didn’t matter to those chunks of metal.

In fact, I think what was really scaring people, and the Y2K bug was just a convenient excuse, was the idea that someday, perhaps soon, computers were going to start taking over the world. And, whether it originated with the media, or the media was just a reflection of that fear, it’s something I’ve seen for years in movies and television. And, I have yet to see a solid foundation for it.

At any rate, whether it was because of my attitude toward the scare or something else, Pinkie Pie didn’t pay any attention to the scare either. She was always just content to learn whatever she could from family and friends, and have fun.