Where were you when…

I was having a conversation with mom not too long ago and somehow we got on the topic of JFK. Then she rattled off the day he was assassinated and exactly where she was at the time she heard the news. It got me thinking… what events have occurred in the world during my life that I took the time to put into memory. I came up with a list of a few things people might remember. So, where were you when...

1. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan (Mar 30, 1981)?

2. The space shuttle Challenger exploded soon after takeoff (Jan 28, 1986)?

3. OJ’s 473-day trial ends – innocent (Oct 3, 1995)?

4. Princess Diana died (Aug 31, 1997)?

5. 9/11/01…?

1. not yet in the womb
2. i think we talked about in kindergarden
3. sitting on the couch watching it with my dad
4. don't remember. don't care.
5. I was opening the video store I worked at when people started coming in asking why I had a movie on and not the news. I changed to the news and was like "ohhhhhhshitttt"

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1. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan (Mar 30, 1981)?
-- Probably in day care. I was 3.

2. The space shuttle Challenger exploded soon after takeoff (Jan 28, 1986)?
-- in school, watching it on TV. The teacher freaked out and started crying, and then so did just about all the students.

3. OJ’s 473-day trial ends – innocent (Oct 3, 1995)?
-- Snapping pictures for the high school yearbook, because everyone who didn't have a class that period was standing around a TV in the "student lounge" watching the verdict. The pictures were great... high school students staring at a TV, mouths hanging open.

4. Princess Diana died (Aug 31, 1997)?
-- Probably getting drunk in Columbia, MO.

5. 9/11/01…?
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1. not born

2. probably at home or in a car seat, I was just over 1

3. in school, the sixth grade. my teacher had us listen to the trial on the radio.

4. At home, in bed. I woke up the next morning and saw all the coverage. I was only 12 so I didn't know who she was.

5. In school, 3rd period lunch, they were announcing the first over the loud-speaker when the second plane hit.

1. playing KC's Crazy Chase! on my Odyssey 4.

2. in science class. watching on tv.

3. who cares?

4. do not recall. i think i was stoned.

5. at work with an asshole who wouldn't let me leave work because there was work to be done. finally i left anyway.

1. in my brother's room bouncing on his bed and playing with star wars action figures
2. p.s. 151 in queens watching it live on tv
3. signing up for an honors chemistry class at miami-dade
4. working at tower records in boston
5. sleeping for the first plane, watching it live on cnn for the second plane

1)I think I had just come home from school...
2)At school.
3)Don't Remember...But I was watching the Knicks for the police chase
4)Watching Saturday Night Live
5)Roomate woke me up for the first plane...was on my roof watching the towers right after the second one hit.

2. Standing in 4th period watching the takeoff, right behind my teacher, Mr.Jeck.
5. Making blueberry pancakes at my current apt. Turned around to my cristian flatmate saying "What the fuck...?"

[Edited on Nov 17, 2004 by Muzencab]

1. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan (Mar 30, 1981)?
existing as random protiens and hormones somewhere inside my dad

2. The space shuttle Challenger exploded soon after takeoff (Jan 28, 1986)?
Being 3 somewhere in Oregon.

3. OJ’s 473-day trial ends – innocent (Oct 3, 1995)?
I think I was in 7th grade, watching the trial in my History class.

4. Princess Diana died (Aug 31, 1997)?
Curled in a ball on my couch with the flu. I think I Kurt Loader told me about it.

5. 9/11/01…? I remember being really pissed off that my friend would call so early, then he said that the World Trade Center was under attack, so I turned on the news in time to see the second tower fall.

Don't you feel better for knowing all that?

1. I wasn't born... yet...
2. I would have been 2 1/2... so most likely at home chewing on something I shouldn't have been.
3. At school. We took time off from class to watch the verdict. Lame.
4. Driving to my grandparents' house from my aunt and uncle's. I heard it on the radio. Shrugged and went to sleep.
5. Sleeping. My roommate's sister was visiting from Mexico. She came banging on my door because she didn't speak good English and couldn't understand what was happening on the TV.

1. Probably at school, or on my way home.

2. Sitting in class in 6th grade. The fifth grade teacher ran into our classroom freaking out. She came back 10 minutes later wheeling in a tv and crying. On that day, the fifth graders and the sixth graders came together as one, to watch a rocket explode.

3. I was living in New Orleans then, so i was probably drunk.

4. I was probably in the hospital. I was doing that a lot around then

5. I was eating breakfast at the Hilton next to Disneyland. The waitress came over and said, "Did you hear? They just flew a plane into the second tower." Like I knew who THEY were, or what towers she was talking about. There was a tv in the coffee shop, which everyone was staring at but me.

1. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan (Mar 30, 1981)?

If I recall correctly, I was at home playing spaceship in a laundry basket.

2. The space shuttle Challenger exploded soon after takeoff (Jan 28, 1986)?

I was at school, I think in Mr. Boyle's class, and they announced it over the PA.

3. OJ’s 473-day trial ends – innocent (Oct 3, 1995)?

I was at a meeting of my college chapter of the American Chemical Society.

4. Princess Diana died (Aug 31, 1997)?

I think I was in my bedroom watching SNL or something.

5. 9/11/01…?

I was walking to work. My mom called when I got there.

1. Can't remember
2. Can't remember
3. Can't remember
4. At home, in bed, listening to the world service.
5. Can't remember

1. too young to care

2. i was in one of the few elementry schools that did not have all the kids see it as it happened. i found out what happened when i got home.

3. In Mr. Nesbits anatomy class, one kid tried to start a riot. it was fun!

4. at a free verve pipe concert.

5. interning at the V.A. hospital. freaky day. all my vets went into major PTSD shock. i got frisked by the FBI, and was informed that i was in fact a goverment employee and got a preview of some of the marshal law plans (none ever went into full effect)

1. Too young to remember.
2. No idea.
3. No idea.
4. In bed, watching TV after coming home from the pub in the early hours of the morning.
5. In a government building, listening to the radio on my walkman.

1. I was 4 and was probably in pre-school or something like that.

2. I was in Social Studies class and most of my class was crying becuase one of the teachers in our school was in line as like 5th runner up to go in Christa McCaulife's place.

3. Senior year high school in Coach Lange's law class.

4. I was rehearsing for a show in college.

5. I was in my AutoCad drafting class, last year of college. Our professor made us turn off the tv news and internet connection because we "had too many distractions already." Asshat. About ten minutes later the dean came into our class and told us we had to evacuate since the campus was mere blocks away from the Florida capitol. Fuck Jeb Bush.

[Edited on Nov 17, 2004 by VivaDeath]

1. Don't remember all that well.

2. Sitting in the lunchroom in my elementary school, and the lunch lady came in all somber to tell us that it had exploded. None of us really cared all that much.

3. No clue.

4. No clue.

5. In my apartment in NYC, having moved to the city exactly ten days before it happened. I got a phone call from my cousin asking me if I was OK, which I found decidedly strange considering I normally speak to him once a year at THanksgiving. Then he said to me "turn on the TV" and I figured it out. Spent the next 10 hours trying to track down my best friend from high school and my sister's fiancee who were working there at the time.

being born exactly one year later

8th grade math class

asleep in my dorm room 'fort' built from plywood, it's amazing what you can sleep through when you have a fort

1. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan (Mar 30, 1981)?
In my mums womb.
2. The space shuttle Challenger exploded soon after takeoff (Jan 28, 1986)?
I was 2 so probally doing something that could only amuse a 2 year old.
3. OJ’s 473-day trial ends – innocent (Oct 3, 1995)?
Probally inbed, England is a whole nother time zone you know.
4. Princess Diana died (Aug 31, 1997)?
Watching it on the News
5. 9/11/01…?
At work, in the Canteen with about 100 people. I remember them saying "there has been some sort of accident" then we saw the second plane hit.

1. eating an apple
2. watching it on tv
3. being a drug study guinea pig
4. at a party
5. paying the liquor bill for a wedding

1. Probably running around the barrio causing trouble.

2. I was watching it on TV at Saber (school for the gifted) with the rest of my class.

3. I don't know where I was when the trial ended, but I do know where I was when the whole "white Bronco chase" was going down. I was at my friend's trying to watch the Knicks-Rockets game during the finals.

4. I was at work questioning why everyone was so upset since they didn't know her. This is about when I got the nickname T2, since they all said I had no feelings.

5. I was asleep when the first plane hit, woke up when my girlfriend's co-worker called me saying my girlfriend was freaking out (she has friends that frequently visited the trade center as part of their jobs) and was watching CNN when the second hit.

Edited for punctuation.

[Edited on Nov 17, 2004 by oldkid]