Log in

View Full Version : Where Were You? 9/11



Pages : 1 [2]

Starfire
09-13-2006, 08:25 AM
I was still in high school. I went to school about 40 minutes from dc, so a lot of people at my school had parents that worked in dc, and the pentagon, and nsa and things like that. I was sitting in my computer class when one of the office aides came and said to my teacher "terrorists attacked washington dc" we were all like what?! At first I thought it was some kind of weird joke. We turned the tv on, later we had to switch to radio. Our whole school was on lockdown, like lights out, doors locked, windows locked (like that would protect us). Everyone was flipping out wondering if family members in dc and ny were ok. finally we got to go home early. I went to my boyfriends house that night, and I remember all the roads were practically deserted.

Jillian
09-13-2006, 09:45 AM
I was in high school also. It was my senior year, it happened while I was in Spanish class, but I didnt find out til my next class, journalism. I didn't believe it, but because it was jrn, I was able to hop online and verify for myself. It was strange, we usually had morning announcements during that class over the PA but we didn't that day, I guess administration didn't know what to say. At lunch they brought out TV's so we could watch coverage.

9/11 was also the day my male measurement fetish began...

I was supposed to have a swim meet that day for school, first one of that season, but it was cancelled. So me being the ressponsible captain I am, I stayed around to make sure all of the young swimmers who couldn't drive had a way home. By the time I made it out to the parking lot and was leaving with a car load of freshment, the lot was jam packed, and this is where my measuring fetish began. A car of, oh so mature, boys pulled up a long side of us, with rulers in hand and started pointing at certain points on the rulers and then down at their crotches. The poor innocent freshment didn't get it, and I had to explain to them what the boys were doing. Needless to say, for my birthday the following month, I got a ruler from each of the freshmen that was in my car that day.

Optimist
09-13-2006, 10:21 AM
Here's a shocker. The day before I tried to get a check cashed and couldn't get it cashed. I'm from Jersey City and my plan was to have a nice morning taking the PATH train to the World Trade (my favorite building in NY) and shopping in Chinatown. I cursed ALL DAY because I couldn't cash the check to go shopping. I stayed at my Mom's and overslept slept through the phone. My Mom was frantic! I answered and turned the TV on in time to see the most beautiful building in the world destroyed and lives of people I knew (from 8 years of commuting thru) stopped cold.

I was too afraid to get on the train. They were bringing the dead bodies to our park so I was too sad to go home. I moved out at the end of the month and haven't moved back yet.

kittykat88
09-13-2006, 10:27 AM
Home alone, sick with mono. They interrupted "The Nanny".
I panicked when I watched the second plane hit and damn near fainted I was so scared when the towers fell. (I grabbed my cats and pulled up their kennels from the basement and waited to see if we would be told to go to a certain place.

Hello_Kitty27
09-13-2006, 04:13 PM
I used to have a LONG commute to work. I was flipping radio stations (approx 7:30 AM CST) and Mancow, a radio guy) and his whole cast were saying that they have the best practical joke EVER and that it would fool EVERYONE. (He's nationally syndicated) They would announce it at the end of the hour. I don't listen to his show, so I continued flipping channels.

Got to work at about 7:55 AM. (CST) One of the managers said "My daughter heard on the radio that a plane hit the World Trade Center in NY" I replied "No it didn't, that sounds like the 'joke' Mancow was talking about" He's like a shock-jock and always trying to get a rise out of people. I figured if it did actually happen, it was a small corporate jet and it probably hit the antenna of the building or something like that. So, I sit at my computer, turn it on, go onto msn.com (my daily routine of checking the news) and there it all was! I almost fell over in my chair.

Someone brought in a mini-TV and I just sat there, paralyzed, watching the live coverage of the second plane hitting. I thought (hoped) that I was hallucinating. Basically the same thing when the towers actually fell. I was numb.

To make matters worse, and ironic in a weird way....I worked for a catering company. The airlines out of O'Hare just so happened to have had several events and meetings going on that day....that whole week actually. United being one of them. It was heart-breaking to call my customer to see what else we could do. ALSO, we had a catered event that day for MorganStanleyDeanWitter (now JP Morgan Chase) b/c they had people in from their NY office that week for big meetings. It was also surreal to call them and talk to them about how that could have been them. My company also had a picnic scheduled for one of the airlines that weekend (it had been scheduled long in advance). The company decided to have their picnic anyways. They said (to me) that they wanted to pick up people's spirits. Little did I know that they laid everyone off AT the picnic! My staff that was there was horrified to be serving food to these people that were just laid off, less than a week after the attacks.

blondi553
09-13-2006, 04:23 PM
i was in the ninth grade and it was like 9am here and i was in government.......i think we got to leave early that day......such a sad day

Lyssa Lynn
09-13-2006, 06:56 PM
Was in bed sleeping. My Mom frantically woke me screaming about the WTC being hit. I reluctantly got out of bed, I didn't even know what the WTC was...I made it to the T.V. in time to see the second tower hit. My heart froze and the phone started ringing. One of my best friends was at an airport waiting to fly. I called her, told her to stay put, shortly after of course they grounded all planes. Just a very scary, sad, sickening day!

I actually went to work that night. As soon as I walked through the door I realized there was no way...I ended up going to a candle light ceremony downtown, crying and hugging strangers I'd never met.