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mama2jude who in turn borrowed it from...
1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
Not even a little drip yet.
2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
Fourth grade. Somehow we ended up with some of the ash from it in the class room. Or maybe it was from a different volcano. Even better it happened on my fathers birthday.
3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)
In 9th grade. In history class. One of the girls in the class had just come back from a doctors appointment. She had head it on the way back and told the teacher on the way into class. So we started talking about that as much as you can with out knowing any of the facts. Then the principal came over the PA and explained what happened with even less detail than our class had just heard.Then he asked use to bow our heads for a moment of prayer. Yeah. Bullshit if I'll be doing that. But I let it slide because it was not a planned thing. I plopped my fat ass in front of the TV when I got home and watched explode over and over again.
4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
I was at home working on zine stuff. Answering mail. My friend Amy Called me and told me to turn on the TV. Not even a hello. Turn on your TV now. Oh cool. Holy shit. Glue to a TV again. When to sleep with it on too. Somewhere I still have photocopies of some of the newspaper articles covering it. While watching I got a couple of more calls telling me to watch it. Major disaster? Call allin. Why couldn't it have been the big one?
5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)
Don't remember it. What i do remember is a footnote and fucked up. I was walking around the Omniplex in OKC and they had a piece of the wall on display there. I looked at it for a bit and then went off to roam the gift shop. While going over the postcards, I smelled something funny. The picture on the postcard was not the same as the thing on display. It was mostly the same. There was a copyright spraypainted onto it but they were on opppisite sides. So I bought the postcard and went out to look again. It was pretty easy to see where the orginal one had been painted over. History altered once more. The revolution will be copyrighted.
6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
I was at work at the hospital. I knew it was coming. I wanted to see shit blow up. I wanted them to pull out that big weapons catalog. I wanted to see G12. Words to that affect were what I was saying. But as I was getting ready work at Subway, while watching the news, I started getting covered in hives. Nothing like your body telling to go fuck yourself. So I went into work thinking I could get through it. I walk in and my boss looks at me and tells me I look like shit. White as a ghostt. I rolled up my sleeves as I was telling him that he didn't even know half of it. My arms looked like some weird world map full of colors. So he told me to go home and get some sleep. Yeah right. When I got home and explained everything I got my ass chewed out for not telling her the truth about how I felt about the whole thing. Why was I so nervous? Wasn't this what I wanted to see? Yeah it was what I wanted to see. I did tell the truth. Then it happened. At that point my whole outlook changed. I was draft age and this was the government doing more shit I didn't agree with. Die for oil sucker. I had no desire to.
7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
Who the fuck cares about OJ? I think this question needs to be replaced by "where were you when the LA riots happened?" OJ can kiss my fat ass.
8. When the building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
Ub, In Oklahoma City at work at the hospital. Didn't I already cover this? How about a few details? I was working as a valet and I had just stepped out of a car. Loud noise. Big wind. What is wrong with my heart? Why is my hearing fucked up? A few minutes later one of our regulars pulled up and gave use the basics. A big bomb and that some middle easten guy did it. I have a big rant on this you might see someday, but I called bullshit on that second thought immediately. There is no fucking way they know that. No way. No how. And business dropped quickly. The security director, mu boss, came over to tell us we were going to be turning away voulenteers at the entrances. So that is what I did for the rest of the day but I did get to go home early. Went home and, well, more TV and hives. I tried calling AEPB to find out if his parents were ok since they worked downtown but I don't know if I actually found out that night. The phone system was fubar. Any calls outside of your exchange was met with an "all circuits are busy" error. Then I went to bed early. I have some very fun tape thatMikey and I shot while down there a few weeks later. Always felt like I didn't do anything to help. I still haven't found out what happened to the concorse after this.
9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
Read the OJ answer.
10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
Bush or Gore. I was to busy laughing at that. Were we picking out videos or voting for the president? I gave up caring about that race a long time ago. Just a figurehead.
11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
What? Where? When? Beats me.
12. When terroristsknocked over [blew the fuck out of] the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)
I was at an appointment with my shrink about 30-35 driving miles away. I find that very funny and very scary. Part way into the appointment his wife calls and tells him a plane just hit one of the twin towers. So of course as soon as I got in my car I turned on the news station. Then it hit. I was barely paying attention to the fact that I was driving. I continues on to my plan to go check the mail. As I am listening to this I am thinking that I should go there. I have that night off. Then the woman on the phone to the station I am litening to starts freaking out. Tower one had just collapsed. Ok I should go there but I have to make a phone call. So I go get the mail. Then head next door to the drug store to buy a phone card. Good timing. Bad timing. Debi had just gotten up. Just in time to see the second tower go down. I tried to calm her down and then headed home. Made a couple of stops on the way. Had to get soda and videotapes. The VCR ran for three days almost straight and I still haven't been ab;e to go back and watch them. All the stuff is in a box until I think I am ready. Then I started trying to let people know I was OK. Living one to two hours away, this would usually not be a problem. Turned out to be a good thing because a few people knew it was possible. Unlikely but possible. they knew I had a habit of driving the streets of New York but they didn't know I would never be there that late in the morning. I gave that up due to a number of reasons but this was not one of them. No hives this time but a whole lot af talking to the TV.
mama2jude who in turn borrowed it from...1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
Not even a little drip yet.
2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
Fourth grade. Somehow we ended up with some of the ash from it in the class room. Or maybe it was from a different volcano. Even better it happened on my fathers birthday.
3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)
In 9th grade. In history class. One of the girls in the class had just come back from a doctors appointment. She had head it on the way back and told the teacher on the way into class. So we started talking about that as much as you can with out knowing any of the facts. Then the principal came over the PA and explained what happened with even less detail than our class had just heard.Then he asked use to bow our heads for a moment of prayer. Yeah. Bullshit if I'll be doing that. But I let it slide because it was not a planned thing. I plopped my fat ass in front of the TV when I got home and watched explode over and over again.
4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
I was at home working on zine stuff. Answering mail. My friend Amy Called me and told me to turn on the TV. Not even a hello. Turn on your TV now. Oh cool. Holy shit. Glue to a TV again. When to sleep with it on too. Somewhere I still have photocopies of some of the newspaper articles covering it. While watching I got a couple of more calls telling me to watch it. Major disaster? Call allin. Why couldn't it have been the big one?
5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)
Don't remember it. What i do remember is a footnote and fucked up. I was walking around the Omniplex in OKC and they had a piece of the wall on display there. I looked at it for a bit and then went off to roam the gift shop. While going over the postcards, I smelled something funny. The picture on the postcard was not the same as the thing on display. It was mostly the same. There was a copyright spraypainted onto it but they were on opppisite sides. So I bought the postcard and went out to look again. It was pretty easy to see where the orginal one had been painted over. History altered once more. The revolution will be copyrighted.
6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
I was at work at the hospital. I knew it was coming. I wanted to see shit blow up. I wanted them to pull out that big weapons catalog. I wanted to see G12. Words to that affect were what I was saying. But as I was getting ready work at Subway, while watching the news, I started getting covered in hives. Nothing like your body telling to go fuck yourself. So I went into work thinking I could get through it. I walk in and my boss looks at me and tells me I look like shit. White as a ghostt. I rolled up my sleeves as I was telling him that he didn't even know half of it. My arms looked like some weird world map full of colors. So he told me to go home and get some sleep. Yeah right. When I got home and explained everything I got my ass chewed out for not telling her the truth about how I felt about the whole thing. Why was I so nervous? Wasn't this what I wanted to see? Yeah it was what I wanted to see. I did tell the truth. Then it happened. At that point my whole outlook changed. I was draft age and this was the government doing more shit I didn't agree with. Die for oil sucker. I had no desire to.
7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
Who the fuck cares about OJ? I think this question needs to be replaced by "where were you when the LA riots happened?" OJ can kiss my fat ass.
8. When the building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
Ub, In Oklahoma City at work at the hospital. Didn't I already cover this? How about a few details? I was working as a valet and I had just stepped out of a car. Loud noise. Big wind. What is wrong with my heart? Why is my hearing fucked up? A few minutes later one of our regulars pulled up and gave use the basics. A big bomb and that some middle easten guy did it. I have a big rant on this you might see someday, but I called bullshit on that second thought immediately. There is no fucking way they know that. No way. No how. And business dropped quickly. The security director, mu boss, came over to tell us we were going to be turning away voulenteers at the entrances. So that is what I did for the rest of the day but I did get to go home early. Went home and, well, more TV and hives. I tried calling AEPB to find out if his parents were ok since they worked downtown but I don't know if I actually found out that night. The phone system was fubar. Any calls outside of your exchange was met with an "all circuits are busy" error. Then I went to bed early. I have some very fun tape that
Mikey and I shot while down there a few weeks later. Always felt like I didn't do anything to help. I still haven't found out what happened to the concorse after this.9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
Read the OJ answer.
10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
Bush or Gore. I was to busy laughing at that. Were we picking out videos or voting for the president? I gave up caring about that race a long time ago. Just a figurehead.
11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
What? Where? When? Beats me.
12. When terrorists
I was at an appointment with my shrink about 30-35 driving miles away. I find that very funny and very scary. Part way into the appointment his wife calls and tells him a plane just hit one of the twin towers. So of course as soon as I got in my car I turned on the news station. Then it hit. I was barely paying attention to the fact that I was driving. I continues on to my plan to go check the mail. As I am listening to this I am thinking that I should go there. I have that night off. Then the woman on the phone to the station I am litening to starts freaking out. Tower one had just collapsed. Ok I should go there but I have to make a phone call. So I go get the mail. Then head next door to the drug store to buy a phone card. Good timing. Bad timing. Debi had just gotten up. Just in time to see the second tower go down. I tried to calm her down and then headed home. Made a couple of stops on the way. Had to get soda and videotapes. The VCR ran for three days almost straight and I still haven't been ab;e to go back and watch them. All the stuff is in a box until I think I am ready. Then I started trying to let people know I was OK. Living one to two hours away, this would usually not be a problem. Turned out to be a good thing because a few people knew it was possible. Unlikely but possible. they knew I had a habit of driving the streets of New York but they didn't know I would never be there that late in the morning. I gave that up due to a number of reasons but this was not one of them. No hives this time but a whole lot af talking to the TV.
