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Recently Fernando Alonso had a big crash in F1 Testing

he lost consciousness and woke up "thinking it was 1995"

If you fell asleep reading this thread, and woke up and it was early March 1995....


where would you be and what would you most likely be doing?

I was in Florida for a month at the back end of a year long trip working and travelling in the US. A few months earlier I had just left LA and just missed the big earthquake there by a week.

Working in a Tax Office in Nottingham dealing with Inheritance Tax. Probably spent most of work time discussing Forest's win over Everton and looking forward to the away game at Filbert Street, was a season I went to nearly 40 games!, we ended the season 3rd and next season were in UEFA Cup.

Just started a new job and had picked up the keys to my first company car, 1.8 litres of throbbing Renault Laguna RT power. Did 70,000 miles in two years before the engine let go big time whilst in lane 3 of the M40. As the saying goes that's when you find out the colour of adrenalin is brown.

I was 8.

Biggest change in my life happened- I became a dad :)

In College, doing A-levels

Most likely playing pool in the common room or reading the racing pages and picking out my bets

Bunking off school and getting my daily 5hrs in at the Snooker club...

First year of school, living the dream

2nd year at Loughborough uni betting and punting every day in betting shops like the naive 19 year old degen i was then in between gym and drinking sessions.  Found my first big betting edge in March 1995 which convinced me long term i could make the game pay and landed a £850 payday with it for a £8 bet.  Never forget that day collecting that sort of cash back then which was bigger than my entire terms student grant.

Nothing special, 22 and probably working either at Ritz video (later on Blockbuster) and out getting pissed a lot with my mates.

Finishing my A Levels and celebrating the discovery of my one true love in life.......


Alcohol.

Second year at uni in Sheffield. So probably drinking.

1995?

I was starting to think about retirement.

Spent the days playing blackjack.

Spent the nights watching the OJ Trial

Regards

M

probably in a field in wiltshire listening to crap music and eating mushrooms.

nowadays i do 50 hours a week in a greengrocers selling mushrooms and the like.

different type though, strictly button, chestnut and portobello.

not sure the hawaaian ones would go down to well with with doris and co...

You were reminiscing?

To good.

Listening to Oasis and studying A levels.

In celle Germany almost certainly pissed and eating chips and mayo

Oh wow, 1995.
I was sixteen, my friend had just passed her driving test and four of us were working our first real job in a southern fried chicken factory, so for the first time we had are own transport and are own cash to spend on nothing but trips out and ridiculous clothes to wear.
Epic.
In fact if I could go back and live one year again, it would be '95.

2nd year of Uni. 
Weekend rotation was The Sanctury, Bagleys and Cream.  Weekdays were spent recovering, apart from Tuesdays which was 50p night at Ritzy.
Later in the year, a field in Pilton and Jarvis Cocker would change my life.

WP

Staring down the barrel of Year 3

Reading the New Musical Express and being obsessed with some highly average British guitar band.

Ha tough year.

I would have been celebrating my 4th birthday, not sure what I would have been doing. More than likely my parents getting smashed with their mates and their kids. So nobody at the party will probably remember.

My baby girl had her first birthday in March 1995, which seems like last week.

Next Saturday will be her 21st! How did that happen?