[OT] where were you 9/11?

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  I was at work and had a classical music station in the background. 
There was a newsflash mentioning the first plane. At the time they were 
not even sure what type of plane it was. Then another newsflash saying a 
second plane just hit the other tower. And then teh second tower collapsed.
  At that point, everybody rushed to the conference rooms and we watched 
the replays in disbelief.
  We were hoping enough people had time to evacuate
  I remembered Oklahoma. And prayed that this would not provoke a 
knee-jerk reaction.
 
    Jean-Claude
    84 8v

Spewey a ?crit :
> Thinking about the job I had going to Canada reminded me of 2001 and 
> hence what my day was like when the towers fell.  I know half of you 
> hate me and are afraid to respond despite being grown men but I 
> thought this might be interesting since the world changed.  Not 
> political, just real life story sharing depending on your time zone or 
> location.
>
> I listened to the initial reports as I got ready for work at 8 am.  
> The second plane hit just as I and the ex-gf were about to go out the 
> door to our jobs so I listened to the radio on my 20 minute commute.
>
> My employer had recently completed a brand new global headquarters and 
> I was lucky enough to have a nouveau riche Henry Miller cubicle there 
> temporarily.  There were multiple conference rooms but the main one in 
> our wing (Science & Technology) had room for 60 and all mod cons as 
> far as projection TV and buzz-down screen.
>
> We all gathered and watched as the drama collapsed on CNN.  The VP was 
> there right next to us lowly technicians and nobody said much of 
> anything.  "It looks like a movie," I blurted with regret (but then I 
> regret everything I say.)
>
> Tuesday was my team's weekly 10 am conference call with Switzerland 
> and I found my supervisor in a small room blabbing about nothing.  I 
> told him the latest by drawing crumbling buildings on the whiteboard 
> and he shrugged it off, muted the phone, and said he would watch it on 
> tv that night.  The Swiss were largely unaware of the magnitude of 
> events and at the end of their day, just wanting to go home.
>
> Luckily I had planned to take the afternoon off to go sailing with my 
> buddies.  Work didn't seem doable by lunch and the ones who shrugged 
> it off seemed even more surreal than the events themselves.  I got 
> back in the car and went home.  My one friend was ready, he had the 
> day off from his fish delivery job so we went to the slacker den of 
> the other and found him sitting amongst cheeto bags and beer bottles 
> watching tv.
>
> Got him in the car and headed south an hour to the boat.  We declared 
> a radio moratorium halfway down and sailed the day away, the only boat 
> on the lake, with our US flag flapping in a nice breeze.  Checked in 
> at the smalltown bar that night and found some very angry locals.  
> Went home and crashed.  The end.
>
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