I was worried because a buddy on my beach volleyball team and I were talking about his trip to his company's NYC office in one of the towers that week. I had stayed in the Marriott WTC the year before and we were comparing notes about things to do/restaurants in that area.
It turns out he was at his meetings the day before and back home on the evening of the 10th.
I was working at an IBM call centre in Toronto at the time, and as we supported the USA, business pretty much became non-existent for the rest of the week. TVs were set up in the conference rooms for people to watch the coverage, and that's where we watched the second tower collapse.
It was a very sad day. I do worry, however, of the endless news coverage about this that's going to dominate airtime for the next couple of weeks.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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