So, Where Were You on 9-11-2001?

motordavid · #1 09-10-2011, 04:31 PM

Impossible to 'look over', or ignore, with the media, and our human emotions and memories...just curious 'where you were' and how it unfolded for you. And, any thoughts on that catastrophic day, a decade later.

I'll start: we were in a flea bag local motel here in Waynesville, NC on one of our many trips down here, to kick the builder in the azz, that was taking 18 months to build our house. We had a mover scheduled for the end of Sept, to haul our junque from our NY house, and the fookin new house had to have a CO and, be done, by eom.

We had spent all day Friday, Sat, Sun, & Monday, wallpapering rooms in the western NC ourselves...so we slept in, and were sitting there in the motel watching CNBC, wasting time and about to head over to our house in progress. We saw the first plane, and I said "Wow, what a crazy accident"...mins later we saw the 2nd plane and we both said, "that's not 2 accidents". The shit has hit the fan, as Zevon sang.

Fwiw, later that day, and over the next few days, the local hillbillies working on trying to finish our new house, were very sympathetic and supportive, as they knew we were moving from just outside NYC, and that both V & I had spent years in the City, working and biz entertaining.

We had separately, or together, been to the Windows on the World restaurant dozens of times for biz entertaining, and there were even a few printing industry customers of ours, with offices in WT 1 or WT2...

The amazing news was that of the 40 - 50 people we knew, that should have, could have, would have been in either WTC tower that day, were not there, for some reason or another. And, even though we have been back to the City several times in the decade since we migrated, we have never been down to the 'site'. Maybe, someday.

It just seems remarkable that a decade has passed...and, I am not sure I feel any 'better' or 'safer' about the situ, and I know I do feel less optimistic about 'our country' and the future for our kids/grand kids...
NEway, apology for the long post, but curious to read of others' remembrances & thoughts.
Best Regards, mD