Wait, what? What's the context for this call? Weirdly, I know COBOL. Eons ago, I learned it for a job that was fairly lucrative, well, for my very broke self. This call is right next to my dream of volunteering to do an emergency lit review when they call for a doctor on board.

I did get a shot at my other "dream" question and asked a surgeon if I would be able to play the piano after my hand surgery. (In case not obvious: I never did learn play the piano beyond a very rudimentary level so always wanted to ask! I was reassured, yes!)

By the way, just like SARS, Y2K was a near-miss. We should learn from near-misses. Many programmers worked very hard to avoid a catastrophe and fixed legacy code. I saw two-digit year variables in the nineties! There was a lot to clean up, and people did. Hence no big crisis.