[ramonesfreak]

I remember every little detail of that morning. I was 29 yo. I had to go to court on LI to argue a motion. Before court I stopped at a gas station and vacuumed my car and then went to a deli and got an egg and cheese sandwich and I remember walking in and was amazed at how the place smelled exactly like my elementary school cafeteria and thought it was odd how I haven’t thought about that smell in all those years until that moment. Then I stopped into the county clerks office to pick up a file and the ladies behind the counter were huddled around the TV and said a plane flew into the tower… and then went to court and the judge screamed at me as I sat in the back row with a news paper open - only judge in 30 years of work that ever cared one bit about such things. I remember that motion, what it was about and how I lost it because I was distracted and worried about my fiancé being in the city and how the only time in my career I lied to my boss about my argument I made..he later got the transcript to appeal and saw that I made no such argument…ooops. And the drive home on the LIE under that blue sky and seeing the smoke as I got closer…..on and on……after that, about a week later my life fell apart. No way I will ever forget that horrible day. My lucky day because typically I would have been at the Borders Books at 5WTC getting a coffee and using the bathroom. Luck had me away from that WTC area for whatever reason. Thanks for letting me ramble