Where were you?

I was standing in the lobby of the famous Lucas Theater in downtown Savannah. Tickets to Penn and Teller were to become available that day and I was buying three--one for me, one for my best friend, and one for her (then) boyfriend. The show was in January so this was sort of an xmas present to myself and to them. (The show, btw, was wonderful. We had a blast. See those guys if you get a chance.)

Everyone around me was acting funny. I was on vacation from work that week and I'd overslept and hadn't even turned on the TV that morning. I had no clue.

That is, until I turned around to see a TV set up in the lobby--I saw what looked like a passenger plane crash into one of the Twin Towers. It just flat-out didn't register with me when I saw it. My mind refused to accept it.

I finished my business and went home and finally turned on the TV to get the news. Then I got onto Internet and logged onto a forum I visited frequently and went into the chat room--a lot of my online friends were there. Most of them were at work and didn't have access to a television, so I was keeping them posted when something new came up.

At one point someone asked, "What about the hurricane?" I thought, "What hurricane?" Then I remembered there was one out in the Atlantic that had a chance to hit Savannah and I had been keeping a close eye on it up until then. I'd completely forgotten it. Fortunately when I checked my little spot was out of the possible path.

But it's a day that is impossible to forget--where I was, what I was doing, when I first found out about it.

How about you? Where were you when you heard? What were you doing?