I was living in Silicon Valley working for a startup...4 years out of college. A college friend of mine on the East Coast woke me up at like 730a Pacific time and told me to turn the TV on to any channel and hung up.
Took my brain a couple minutes to wake up and realize this was for-real real.
I was in LA, hungover as fuck, my roommate knocked on my door and said “wake up, we’re getting fucked by terrorists”
I called my dad and we were on the phone watching the news when the first tower fell. I can still hear the fear in his voice, just a quiet, “Oh my God… no.” Then we just sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity.
I had just moved in with new roommates on the first, and had a girl spending the night. My roommate burst into my room without knocking and said, “come out here, you’ve got to see this.”
Under normal circumstances I would’ve been furious, but I could tell something big was happening
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u/CaydeTheCat 15h ago
I was living in Silicon Valley working for a startup...4 years out of college. A college friend of mine on the East Coast woke me up at like 730a Pacific time and told me to turn the TV on to any channel and hung up.
Took my brain a couple minutes to wake up and realize this was for-real real.