Mayan end of the world: The Isle of Wight view

Remember when the world was going to end last week? In much the same way as the pre-event hype of the Millennium Bug which didn’t deliver, neither did the Mayan end of calendar prediction – happily.

We thought it’d be fun to find out from people on the Isle of Wight what they were doing at the ‘end of days’ moment – 11:11am on 21.12.12 – that had been predicted.

Here are the replies we had back.

Mayan end of the world: What did you do?

Storified by On The Wight· Mon, Dec 24 2012 07:36:58

& a Happy Solstice to you too. :)Nikki T Harwood
@onthewight Fab idea! I’ll definitely send mine :-))SeaSafe Systems
@onthewight replays 2?jon adams artist
@onthewight when’s the next end of the world planned then? Nutters! Seems to be every year someone comes up with a new date. LolKeith Allso
I was curled in a ball in the corner of the room praying it wasn’t going to end… No I was thinking about having a beer !Josh Davies
@onthewight sat in M&S, waiting for my partner to come back from the loomattdawhit
@onthewight It’s a beautiful day! #endoftheworldClay Withers
I was in bed eating a twix living life on the edgeCharlotte ‘Barry’ Atkinson
I was changing a pooey nappy! :/Lucy Horobin
I was sat down ice rink on Facebook!Elaine Harrison
Was wondering if it was like New Years Eve and that other time zones experienced the end of the world before us. Should we have thrown a hootenanny?!Ben Clayton
@onthewight Think I was drying my hair, totally oblivious to the time. (Sick child off school; all gone to pot.)Wendy Varley
i was having trouble on facebook due to being engulfed by flames from the ApocalypseJustin Blake
i was having trouble on facebook due to being engulfed by flames from the ApocalypseJustin Blake
Dammit? Have I missed the end of the world again?I’ll just have to wait for the next one now.Thomas Cowley
Charlie Harris emailed us to say, “Would have been quite disappointed if the world had of ended whilst sat on a Southern Vectis bus leaving Ventnor”
Lusi Rusi Elkins messaged us on Facebook: “At the end of the world, we were…on a train in Portsmouth! Going to do some Christmas shopping, just in case the world didn’t end.”
Getting ready to go out for a celebratory chip butty with a friend- celebrating not being dead…Caitlin Itachi Napier
I was thinking it was quite a seamless transition and that this afterlife feels a lot like life before the world ended…Shelley Peach
I was thinking it was quite a seamless transition and that this afterlife feels a lot like life before the world ended…Shelley Peach
I could’nt possibly send a photo, I was in the shower!!!Della Messenger
I was sat last night, kids in bed, with my cats and watching Gavin and Stacey boxset thinking "is this it?!"Tina Tatiana
ooooohhh i remembered a few minutes after that i wass still alive, so i had a little ‘yay’ to myself hahha.xSarah ‘larkin’ Sprooles
what the worlds ending no body told me, has it happened yetDarkwight
what about now :)Darkwight
Tina- are you sure you don’t mean "What’s occurring"? (!)Shirley Boggett
I’ll carry on doing my dusting then!Jane Howard
I thought thats a shame have to carry on working thenPaula Glaysher
er no, you really dont want to see me in the shower.Jerry Cahill