Six years ago tonight.....9/11

[Sebastiaan56]

There I was in the Golf Club Motel at Bunbury, the bloke in the room next to me has the TV flat out at midnight, me yelling and swearing about turning the TV down, didnt find out till the next morning,

where were you?

[NCArcher]

To be honest, I don't remember and i don't care. Get over it and move on.

[Lignum]

I was living in Freo, sitting having a beer, turned the telly on and thought it was just another Bruce Willis movie, so i changed the station and the same thing was on, and thought

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

[HappyHammer]

I was in Sydney and was up early to meet a guy who'd come to dig a hole for our pool, we both stood in the living room mouths agape watching the events of a few hours prior.....

HH.

[ss_11000]

i was at home wondering why mum and dad were watching the news on fox when there were better things like cartoons on nickelodeon

[Alastair]

I was idly watching TV, and not concentrating when first newsflash came on.

Talked about an air crash.

While a newsman was standing talking about the "air disaster" with the smoking TT's in the background, watched the 2nd aircraft hit, and said to self "That was not an accident".

Stayed up until the early hours glued to the box as the rest of the drama unfolded.

No-one in the family would believe me when told in the morning.

[Wongo]

I know what you are on about now.

Yep I remember. It was 10 day before our first daughter was born. I was watching TV downstairs. My wife was resting in the bedroom upstairs.

OMG ……

[bitingmidge]

Four days before that, I'd put my house on the market.

Probably dropped 25% in value overnight, because the press kept telling us the world was going to end.

P

[Gra]

Was on holidays in NZ, had to get up early that morning to catch the bus to go skiing. Was having trouble getting out of bed, so flicked on the TV, wife was in the shower and all she heard was a string of swear words. she came out to find me sitting up in bed swearing at the TV. Took her a couple of minutes to work out what had happened (she thought I was having a heart attack).

Then spent the next week trying to work out if the people I know in NY were ok

[Ashore]

Shmbo and I were walking around soho in london flew home 2 days later security was redicilous at heathrow , on the way over Thai airways Thermal travel tracksuits, silver service, crystal glasses
Way home still got the thermal tracksuits to change into but plastic knives forks and glasses all changed in two days

[jmk89]

Got home late from work - negotiating some boring legal document with guys in London.

Came home. Felt like a beer adn some late night TV to put me to sleep! Spent the next 5 hours watching. It had happened in the 15 minutes it took to get from office to home!

I woke SWMBO to tell her.

[silentC]

Was in bed early, Rory was exactly 4 weeks old. Wife's brother rang and left a garbled message on the answering machine (I could hear him from bed but couldn't understand what he was saying). Wife was asleep. I got up because I figured it must be something important. He was saying "just ringing to say I love ya's 'cause I mightn't see you again. Turn on the TV, the world is coming to an end". At that stage no-one knew what the hell was going on. I went into the bedroom and the wife asked what it was. I turned on the TV and we just sat there and watched it. It was one of the catalysts for us leaving Sydney, so I'm not likely to forget it - although I had to think for a minute when I read this thread title.

[wheelinround]

I was on the net chatting to an american lady who asked me what I thought about it hadn't heard a thing .
my daughter came down at about 6am and said yeh heard it all just before going to bed the night before the 10th here in AU so that morning here was the 11th how do I know our monthly aniversary 11th one month prior our actual aniversary 11th OCT.

go figure 11-09 the correct way to right a date

get over it I did.

[Barry_White]

I was in bed sound asleep with all my systems shut down and the phone rang at about 3:00am. It was my son ringing who was working at the Big Prawn Service Station in Ballina on the 11:00 pm to the 7:00 am shift yelling turn the TV on all hell has broken loose.

That was the end of sleep for that night.