I was just starting my sophomore year of college, sleeping later than I should have to get ready for work, when my mom called me, sobbing hysterically. She told me to turn on the TV and not leave my dorm. I turned in on just in time to watch the second tower fall.
My roommate came home from class then and we sat on my floor watching TV until my boss called me to see if I would go over to work, which was maybe 250 feet from my dorm. I must be forgetting some part of the memory because, knowing her as I do, I can't imagine she'd insist that I go to work that day.
I do remember being beside myself with panic because my two best friends were at NYU and lived near there. I had no long distance plan on my dorm phone and cell phones were hopelessly overloaded so I had no way of calling out to find out. I had to wait for my mom to call me with updates.
I have another, what I assume to be, false memory of my roommate running into my work with my cordless phone and me talking to my mom on it. It was a crappy phone with nowhere near the range needed to get from my basement room to the building I was working in.
I had no internet in my dorm yet so I spent much of the following days in the library checking email and news sites. I didn't turn the TV off for 3 weeks. It was constantly on MSNBC.
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My roommate came home from class then and we sat on my floor watching TV until my boss called me to see if I would go over to work, which was maybe 250 feet from my dorm. I must be forgetting some part of the memory because, knowing her as I do, I can't imagine she'd insist that I go to work that day.
I do remember being beside myself with panic because my two best friends were at NYU and lived near there. I had no long distance plan on my dorm phone and cell phones were hopelessly overloaded so I had no way of calling out to find out. I had to wait for my mom to call me with updates.
I have another, what I assume to be, false memory of my roommate running into my work with my cordless phone and me talking to my mom on it. It was a crappy phone with nowhere near the range needed to get from my basement room to the building I was working in.
I had no internet in my dorm yet so I spent much of the following days in the library checking email and news sites. I didn't turn the TV off for 3 weeks. It was constantly on MSNBC.