[Samgotit]

'Cause those shipping companies all bring me stuff that otherwise would take days to go get myself!
 
When one of these companies looses your dorky cellphone; or laptop; or woot t-shirt; or your coolio, anodized stick of memory; or your luscious, tight Under Armour; or your Juiceman Juicer; or your dweeb video game; or your Amazon GBD (that's gold box deal, btw); or your putzy laser pointer,  IT IS NOT TEOTWAWKI! Stop acting like homo provincialist weenies. So what? you're crap went missing. There are 90 trillion people on the planet earth, some of them cover their genitals with gourds. You're lost package means squat in the big picture. No one cares. Stop posting on the internet about it. Why not take a minute and post something interesting, something more personal? Where were you on 9/11? I was in San Antonio. I flew out back to New Orleans the day the flight restriction was lifted. The airline was Southwest. The pilot ----VERY SOMBERLY--- thanked us for flying. The pilot ===VERY FESTIVELY+++ then told us drinks were on southwest! Only ~25 people were on that 737.
 
Crazy day. I watched the second plane hit on a bank of 9 plasma TVs, mounted 3x3, at a trade show.

 

[revolink24]

^^^This is the best post ever.
 
I was in elementary school. Fourth grade (crazy, right?) and all we were told was that we were going to be sent home early. Celebration commenced. Then my father came to take me from school. The instant I saw his face, I knew that something terribly was terribly wrong, and sad. He didn't look like that normally.
 
Even when explained to me then, it didn't hit me. I was young, I didn't understand.
 
Now, looking back on it, it hits me.

 

[Samgotit]

 Frisbee full of blastulas around here. 4th grade? I've never thought about it from such a point of view. Had to be odd. Good story, Revo.

 

[logwed]

I was also in 4th grade. The radio was on when my mom drove me to school, and they were talking about a plane hitting the twin towers, and I assumed that it was a small single propeller plane. Our teacher had the television on, and I saw the second tower fall live. That was nuts, especially because I had been in the towers a couple years before. It was there, and then all of a sudden, the smoke and dust rose and the tower was gone. After that happened, the teacher turned the television around, and I clearly remember the high pitched whine that a TV makes going on all day. My friend got pulled out of school by his mom, and the teacher and aides kept going back to watch the TV. Apparently at other elementary schools, the decision was made to not show everything, so I had a pretty clear picture compared to other kids.

 

[appophylite]

I just got to school (Junior year of High School) when I found it. Too late for it to appear in the morning paper, and we never really turn on the TV for morning news around our house, so I had no idea until I got to school and saw everyone running from room to room trying to find a room with a TV tuned to the news.

 

[Landis]

But the mail service lost my nine dollar t-shirt!!!!1
 
I was in class and we gathered in the cafetorium to watch on the TVs just before the second plane hit.

 

[Welly Wu]

I was at Essex County College in Newark, NJ taking class as the professor told us something was happening in New York.

 

[Pm0unt]

I was in Korea with 1-72 Armor (First Tank!) and was at home with my wife when a neighbor came over and told me to turn on the TV and get my gear ready.  The horn went off a couple hours after it happened and I spent the next two weeks carrying a loaded weapon around Camp Casey and listening to 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor'

 

[earthpeople]

I woke up and went downstairs to get breakfast. The news was on and they were replaying the events. I don't remember if I saw either of the towers get hit live. I ate breakfast and went to school. I don't remember if the school day was cut short or not. I was in 5th grade.

 

[NapalmK]

I was in 6th grade sitting in math class. One of the other teachers came in and whispered something in her year. My teacher immediately turned on the TV and looked rather concerned. Other teachers came in and out constantly and kind of muttered and whispered among themselves. At the time I wasn't really worried as I didn't know the scale of the attacks as the teacher turned off the TV rather quickly afterward. I knew something was up but I didn't realize the scale. We were just told a plane hit the world trade center in NY where we had taken vacation a month earlier. We were given a half day so everyone in class was excited. When I got back there were videos of people jumping from the towers and then their collapse on TV. Everyone in my family was completely silent and we didn't say anything. It was only then that I realized how bad it was.

 

[Uncle Erik]

I was living with Crazy Rita at the time, here in Los Angeles. We woke up to reports of the first crash and thought it was a terrible accident. Then we saw the second plane hit.

And it was time for me to go to work, downtown LA in a skyscraper. No word on whether the office would be open, so I hit the light rail and rode down there.

Downtown LA was completely deserted. Very strange, I'd never seen downtown empty during the day. I was turned away at my office and wandered across the street to the Bonaventure to buy a coffee. The entire lobby was dead silent, yet filled with stranded travelers all watching the news. I hung around for a bit and watched, then rode back home. By then, all the planes were grounded. A completely dead LAX was creepy.

The office was open the next day and I went. It was tense being a few hundred feet up in a building.

My cousin had quite an experience. After the US team (he was the captain) won the Coupe du Monde pastry olympics in Lyon earlier that year, the team was invited to meet the President at the White House. They were supposed to go in, I think, on the 11th. Needless to say, that didn't happen and he could see the Pentagon from his hotel. The team eventually got their meeting about a year later.

 

[momomo6789]

playing fooball in middle school had one of them crappy radios out there the couches listened to needless to say then turned off the radio and we went back to running : /

 

[Spiritboxer]

I was by J&R Music World when the plane hit 2 World Trade. Too damn close for comfort.

 

[basementdweller]

I was pulling an all nighter in a computer lab during my freshman year of college.  When I opened the door to leave I saw the second plane hit.  In my groggy caffeine induced state, I thought I was seeing a rerun of the movie Die Hard...unfortunately that wasn't the case.

 

[CoryGillmore]

I was in German class in my high school. We all watched live on CNN as the second plane hit and saw both buildings collapse. I was in 10th grade.