#153

How many bizarre jobs have you had?

#154

I was in Belfast. Sitting in the bar of the Crown in central Belfast. Someone behind the bar put the telly on. Watched the 2nd plane hitting. Stream of American tourists coming in and understandably freaking out.

I was over there for 2 days to sort out accommodation for starting my PhD at Queens later that month. Had already started to talk myself out of it, and the panic involved in flying back home later that afternoon didn’t do wonders for my already shaky mental health at that point. Deferred the PhD for 3 months, then a year, then never did it. I do often wonder what I’d be doing if I’d actually cracked on with it.

#155

Was 14, came home from school with my mate a bit early. We had a guy called Tim doing some decorating so he was there when we got home.

We turned the tv on, was the news explaining about the first plane. We did not tell Tim. Saw the second plane hit, was quite startling even not really comprehending what was happening, still didn’t tell Tim though. Plane hit the pentagon too. Was shocking, but we didn’t know what the pentagon was so we asked Tim. He explained. Did not let him know about planes. Went back to tv. About half an hour later first tower collapsed. Tim came in, saw what was happening and was quite surprised we hadn’t let him know.

Probably should have told Tim about 9/11.

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#156

Well I never ended up having these ones. Disney had seen the Nickelodeon (UK) idents I did music for and asked the director to do 8 for Disney Channel (US) and he asked me to do the music for ‘em. Job got cancelled the Friday after 9/11 as a direct consequence of them losing their NY HQ

#157

Wow. Never really considered that 9/11 had such a negative impact on some peoples lives.

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#158

You’d be amazed!

Wait til you find out what Tony Blair did!

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#159

I was in year 9 i think, came home from school and my mum was watching the news and caught me up, I remember lingering by the living room door staring at the TV in shock at the images

#160

Was at school as the news started to spread for sure, remember kicking it outside the tech labs and talking it about it with friends, and someone filled my bag with the big rocks outside while I was distracted (a classic gag). Had no idea what the World Trade Centre was but I kind of got the gravity (edit: of the situation, not the heavy rocks in my bag).

Got home and met my (elder) sister outside my house. She had tears in her eyes, and said to me with a completely straight face “I can’t believe someone would bomb Wembley”, which was very confusing.

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#161

I wish I’d thought of doing this in school.

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#162

In the pub at lunchtime. It was all kicking off by the time l sneaked back. Bit of luck there.

#163

Bum whacks

#164

Back sack and

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#165

All that lasagne, ruined

I’d be crying too

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#166

Had just got home from school, was 14. Don’t remember if I turned on the telly before my mum rang or the other way around (she worked in politics at the time so it must have been quite a day in the office). Very distinctly remember assuming that it was some kind of horrific accident, being totally incredulous when my mum/the news told me what it actually was.

#167

Took the dog for a walk on the beach about 10 minutes before it happened, was away for hours and didn’t have the radio on in the car. Didn’t find out until pretty much everyone else on the planet knew about it.

#168

A likely story, can anyone else corroborate this alibi?

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#169

The dog, but he’s now dead.

#170

I was skiving off school playing pro evo.

#171

Another friend who was also at home called me and told me to turn on the news. My mum weirdly came home from work early and we probably watched for about 4 straight hours.

#172

Was at work in Plymouth. We only had a radio in the stockroom, so didn’t actually see any of it or really understand what had happened until I got home.