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Originally Posted by Sainters7
10 years ago already, that's unbelieveable. Man time flies...
And since a few are mentioning their "where were you?" moments, I swear I was the last person in the western world to find out about it. I was in HS finishing up a summer job at Canyon Meadows GC & was doing sandtraps all day, skipped lunch too. I found out when I pulled up to the shop at 2pm. I remember wondering why the course was so empty that day.
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I think I was the last person to actually see the footage. I was working at Blockbuster at the time and I worked a 10-6 shift. I woke up at 915 and I was still 18 at the time so I got up, showered, went to work. No time to check the news/breakfast. Just up and out the door.
Got to work at 10am PST and both towers had been down and everything was going on and I had no idea. My boss told me about it, but I didn't get a chance to actually watch the coverage until 630pm later that day. Approx 12 hours after the first plane hit. Needless to say, I was stunned and horrified, but I was also glued to the tv for the next 6 hours.
During that day, while working at Blockbuster, we had a lot more customers than we usually did for a random Tuesday afternoon. Plenty of people said they had enough watching the coverage and needed to get away from it with a movie.
In the whole grand scheme of things, my story is pretty boring, but it's amazing how I'll never forget the details about what I was doing on this day.
Ten years ago....wow.