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xjohnx

xjohnx

Newark, DE
December 2003

NOV 17, 2004 12:49 PM

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…?

Sydni

Sydni

SUICIDEGIRL

Washington, USA

NOV 17, 2004 12:52 PM

#4: at my dad's house. I was watching random tv
#5:I was woken up from a drug binge by my mom.....seeing planes crashing into buildings while on mushrooms and other eroneous substances was NOT AWESOME.

it did stop my short lived drug abuse though. smile

lil_tuffy

lil_tuffy

MODERATOR

San Francisco, CA

NOV 17, 2004 12:52 PM

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

At home, watching the soap opera 'Texas' with my mom.

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

All Saints Middle School/Junior High Watched it live on TV

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

The Attic Bar, Pittsburgh PA. Same place I was for the chase

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

The Kilowatt, SF - The Makers were playing

5. 9/11/01…?

In bed asleep for the first plane. In front of the tv for the second.

Lil_Tuffy

Maxx

maxx

Los Angeles, CA
July 2002

NOV 17, 2004 12:55 PM

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"

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

NOV 17, 2004 12:56 PM

xjohnx said:
So, where were you when...[/quote

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…?
http://suicidegirls.com/members/Shalome/486136/

Thistle

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

NOV 17, 2004 12:57 PM

1. A mere twinkle in my pappy's eye

2. Too young to remember

3. Probably watching Ninja Turtles

4. At a costume party- being asshole teenagers we all thought it was morbidly fascinating.

5. In bed in my dorm room freshman year. My friend at another school in LA called to tell me that a plane had crashed into the WTC, and it was so early that I was like, what's the world trade center. About half an hour later my whole dorm was flipping out and I figured out what exactly was going on.

AnimeNinjaJustin

AnimeNinjaJustin

Cherry Hill, NJ
June 2004

NOV 17, 2004 12:57 PM

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.

monkeybutt

monkeybutt

I'm lost
May 2004

NOV 17, 2004 12:58 PM

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.

throatneedle

throatneedle

Baltimore, MD
September 2002

NOV 17, 2004 01:00 PM

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

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

NOV 17, 2004 01:00 PM

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.

Muzencab

Muzencab

Federal Way, WA
November 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:02 PM

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]

handle

handle

I'm lost
July 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:07 PM



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?

FreakPirate

FreakPirate

Canada
November 2002

NOV 17, 2004 01:08 PM

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.

Pwndcake

Pwndcake

Portland, OR
October 2004

NOV 17, 2004 01:09 PM

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.

Rickets

rickets

Seattle, WA
March 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:11 PM

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.


dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

NOV 17, 2004 01:16 PM

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

Pollywog

Pollywog

Beverly Hills, CA
September 2004

NOV 17, 2004 01:20 PM

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)

WaTed

WaTed

United Kingdom
September 2002

NOV 17, 2004 01:20 PM

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.

VivaDeath

VivaDeath

Jacksonville, FL
October 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:22 PM

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]

legionnaire

legionnaire

Belgium
November 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:24 PM

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.

B57913

B57913

I'm lost
May 2004

NOV 17, 2004 01:24 PM

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



being born exactly one year later



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



8th grade math class


5. 9/11/01…?



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

l0st_cause

l0st_cause

United Kingdom
May 2004

NOV 17, 2004 01:34 PM

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. frown

hack

hack

Canada
February 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:35 PM

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

oldkid

oldkid

Tempe, AZ
October 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:36 PM

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]

Charley

Charley

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

NOV 17, 2004 01:38 PM

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

Wearing itchy home knitted jumpers and lying in a pram somewhere

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

Probably at school.

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

Stoned out of my mind somewhere...I would imagine.

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

Drinking gin and Night Nurse and being a teenage goth in my best friends bedroom, they cancelled the Eastenders omnibus. We were seriously pissed off.
And wasted...maaaaan!

5. 9/11/01…?

In my flat in a high rise building in London with a temperature, by myself, scared out of my mind.

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