Where were you on 9/11/2001?

[Professor]

God, you kids are young. I was graduated college, married and working.

[exploited]

Professor:

[Winchester]

Driving to work on Montana Street passing by the grain bins and the Valley Motor Supply store listening to NPR. Can remember everything like it was yesterday. Ditto for the Challenger accident when I was sitting in my social and criminal justice class. Weird how shocks like that get imprinted so firmly in one's minds eye.

Got to work, sent everyone home.

[The Dude]

I was in limbo. I graduated HS but university didn't start til the last week of Sept and I didn't move in til the following week and summer job finished. So I was just being lazy for a week and buying what I needed for school.

Naturally, I was sleeping in. My mom let me sleep in a bit cuz I guess she was in shock and only later did she come in and wake me up saying "they knocked it down," as she was crying.

I didn't understand and I turned the TV on and w/o glasses or contacts yet on I watched a replay completely blurry. It was then I realized what was happening.

I had an orthodontist appointment a few hours later and surprisingly when I called it wasn't cancelled. I will never forget the eeriness of driving there that day. In Los Angeles, there was nobody on the road for miles. Just me. I've driven at 3am on Xmas eve with more traffic than that. It felt like I was in a ghost town. I can't believe my appointment wasn't canceled. I recall lying on his chair and listening to talk radio talk about it. Nobody in the office said anything. The whole thing was...surreal.

My parents and I spent the rest of the day just watching. I remember picking up grandma after my appointment and bringing her over, too.

I will never shake the feeling I had driving in Los Angeles on empty roads in the middle of a weekday.

[Aaron]

I was working for a carpet cleaning company, saw the towers fall just before leaving for work... then we cancelled all the work orders and just sat in the office and watched coverage till noon and then went home. Aside from the hellish nature of the event, it was a great work day.

[The Dharma Bum]

I was managing a thundercloud subs out at lake travis and my grandfather died that same morning

needless to say it was a shitty day

[The Dharma Bum]

oh, and my dog got ran over that day too

[Mr.Bill]

Sleeping... On 9/10/2001 I was working with engineering at the place I worked and I pulled a 16 hr. day.. Got home at about 3am on 9/11.. Wife woke me up at 9am and told me the schools were closing and the kids were coming home, and then sat me in front of the TV and said watch. I was still 1/2 asleep, but once I started watching I woke up really quickly.

[gla22]

I was young, 11 years old and probably in 4th or 5th grade. I was reading in bed in my room in the morning when my mom came in in hysterics and told me to watch T.V. I was too young to grasp the significance of the event at the time.

[Spider]

In the UK, study abroad thing. Horrible sinking feeling, being that far away. Was out for lunch, all of these people standing around a TV set, coming in off the street to watch, so I joined in. I thought it was a summer FX movie of some sort at first, had that surreal Hollywood quality. Took a few minutes before it sunk in that it was real, then I was pissed because of the level of incompetence it would take to actually manage to crash an airliner into a skyscraper....then the second plane hit, and the feeling got worse because it so clearly couldn't be an accident. We all just stood there in a crowd around a TV in a take away place, watching.