Being a teenager in Glasgow in the noughties was brilliant for the most part, but that doesn't mean there wasn't the occasional time when something would happen that would absolutely ruin your day.
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 sending "pokes" to our pals on Facebook and playing FarmVille. Netflix hadn’t even become an online streaming service yet.
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Below is a list of 19 things that happened to Glasgow teens 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 Glasgow.
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.
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1. Wearing your new knock-off UGG boots from the Barras 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 child ticket on the bus.
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. Waiting outside a shop trying to get someone to buy you a half bottle of Glen's only for a "responsible" adult to give you a massive lecture about the dangers of underage drinking then threatening to tell your maw.
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 bolted 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.
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