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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
never in person, of course we all saw on this TV
flying is statistically safe but still unpleasant-- crammed like cattle in coach, anal probes at the security check, walking on everyone's foot fungus spores (disgusting), 3 hours sitting on the runway--
what i fear the most is sitting next to a really voluminous person who should have paid for 2 tickets and "expands" into one's seat-- last time it was this big woman that kept taking up more & more space-- my elbows were deep in fatback-- i fucking hate that. |
I also thought about this moment when I posted this thread.. on 9/11 my moms came in my room waking my up for school saying in what I had interpreted at the moment as a sarcastic tone, that "America is under attack. Get up quick!" (I thought she was being facetious because I was a blatantly out-spoken anarchist at the time)
so I scratched my ass and got up and just as i turned on the TV expecting to see GoodDay LA and annoying Jillian Barberie give me the predictable sunny, LA hot hot fall weather, I saw the second plane crash live into the tower.. that was quite a moment. I was like, "holy fucking shit!" I couldn't believe my eyes, I simply thought it was not real.. and then, still trying to grasp at what I just saw, the first smoldering tower suddenly collapsed.....
that was quite a morning I tell you. I walked to school (well towards school, I never intended to go rather I was going to ditch and go to my friends house on the street behind the school) so terrified of everything, I thought the police and army would hit the streets with tanks and roadblocks at any moment, I thought I was gonna get gaffled up in the confusion.
The El Toro Crash is equally vivid but for different reasons, I remember seeing the plane fly up and do a flip, and as it was coming back down we ALL knew it was diving a bit fast and low, but none of us expected the horrific, fiery crash the happened... that fire-ball, the smoke ploom, the smells and heat...
Considering the show went on, even at the cost of a man's life, that was one of the first days I ever remember being ashamed of being an American, because Americans were more down to watch planes fly over-head showing force, dropping bombs to show off their balls and lack of brains, when a man had just died for Christ's sake! Over our entertainment? fucking shit, the disillusionment still stings like a knife..