What were you doing, decided to do, or did do on 9/11/2001?

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54. I was on the A train trying to get to 59th St. and was delayed

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The train ran through World Trade Center. There were no communications and I was running late for work already because I had seen my daughter off to her first day of school (I don't know why public school started on 9/11 that year--probably Rosh Hoshanah was the previous week like this year-- but it did and it saved a few lives).

Anyway, I finally got off the train at around 9:30 and a station that was usually full of people was totally empty. My bagel woman was on the phone and didn't have the time to get my breakfast...everything was off. And then she told me planes, plural, had flown into the World Trade Center, upon which I tried to look concerned but I thought it may have been small planes, an accident, whatever. When I got to the street, a woman was crying and I didn't take that seriously either, nor did the sirens particularly impress me. The security guys at the elevator were talking about it...still no big deal to me. My office was mine alone, so no colleagues to fill me in, three or four panicky vociemails from friends and family, still not impressed. Then I turned on WINS, not long after which I heard the live transmission of the south tower collapse, which I will never forget and completely freaked me out, which does not happen easily.

I called my wife back and said, leave now, this is the worst day in the history of the city. She said, you told told me not to worry. I said I was wrong...