London and the golf cart rider

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1. I was in London when the 1993 IRA Bishopsgate bombing happened.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9156301

When the bomb (it killed one, injured 44 and destroyed or damaged several buildings in the financial district) went off, I was at the Portobello Road Saturday market in Notting Hill. The bombing was several miles west of the financial district, but I had walked those streets just the day before.

Probably the only person to panic was me, because I had to wait several hours to call my family in Chicago and tell them that I was fine due to the six-hour time difference.

Meanwhile, Londoners went about their Saturday business as usual. They kept calm and carried on. I was thoroughly impressed and somewhat humbled by their example. It was exactly as you described in your OP.