#42

Newark airport departure lounge, watching it out of the window from just after the first plane had hit, when all you could see was a single plume of smoke and CNN were still showing the business news on the TV.

#43

Just at work in an office job. Seem to remember word got round and watching on a bbc feed on someone’s computer. Don’t think my work computer had internet, just intranet.

#44

Here comes Kermit to say ‘still in the womb’ or something.

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#45

I’m not sure at what point I learned that what was happening was 9/11. Maybe a day or two later when people started calling it 9/11. That’s when I knew for sure that it had been 9/11.

#47

Was at school, must have been in year 6, and I think word starting spreading around the playground. I guess some of the teachers must have been talking about it. Vaguely remember watching footage of it at school that morning but not sure where we would have had a telly on

#48

Yknow, I don’t remember. Is that bad?

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#49

Now then…I was working my Saturday job in a hairdressers in Ashton-in-Makerfield, I was near the till…on the phone or writing appointments. I remember it clearly and often think about how clearly I remember it, and how it must have really stuck with me.

In here…

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But I just looked up the day it happened and it was a Tuesday. WTF.

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#50

At work, summer job in a public library. Heard about it on the radio during my break, and got updates from people coming in, a lot of which turned out to be nonsense. The supervisor, who was a bit strange and unpleasant, solemnly told me there’d most likely be a war and me and everyone else my age would be drafted. I politely suggested this was unlikely. And I was right, Angela. I was right.

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#51

You were only about five so I think you’re fine

#52

Woah. I assume your flight was grounded. What happened after?

#53

Thank you for validating my theory.

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#54

Seven!

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#55

And I say that as the 40th greatest living Briton.

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#56

Watching Neighbours.

#57

Took some jeans to Joan pre-COVID. lovely lady

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#59

Mad to think people born after it happened can legally buy alcohol

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#60

I don’t remember her or what shops used to be in the arcade back then, other than the hairdressers with a cafe opposite. The toilets were upstairs in what was the old projection room I guess, everyone said it was haunted so I only ever went up once. Worked in that job for years, really long days, and one wee. That time when I went up a man had just smeared his own poo all over the walls.

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#61

I do not understand that reference but you can have a like none the less

#62

What a monster

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#63

You won’t catch me out that easily, op

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