# Where were you when stories
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683 "2009-09-11T13:37:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/21 "2009-09-11T14:59:13Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#):
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> I haven’t done any such thing. You’re free to check.
You seem to be under the mistaken notion that this thread is entirely about this board. It isn’t. I’m talking about water cooler/FB/twitter chatter. Here I can avoid the stuff I don’t care to hear or read.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/22 "2009-09-11T14:59:43Z")
If it makes you feel any better I was in college and I missed 9/11 when it happened and I didn’t find about about it until the next day.
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### Author:  [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/23 "2009-09-11T15:01:14Z")
> [@cricetus](#):
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> You seem to be under the mistaken notion that this thread is entirely about this board. It isn’t. I’m talking about water cooler/FB/twitter chatter. Here I can avoid the stuff I don’t care to hear or read.
I forgot it was 9/11, despite having written the date on two daycare check-in forms, until I arrived at this thread. I have had no other human contact in over 3 hours.
ETA: Never mind. I see what you’re saying. Apologies.
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### Author:  [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/24 "2009-09-11T15:01:24Z")
I don’t know why that would make me “feel better.”
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### Author:  [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/25 "2009-09-11T15:03:20Z")
Well, arguing about whether or not I find boring people telling boring stories boring is also boring. So I’m out. I figure if you love those stories, you’d just go about your business listening to them and reading them rather than actually argue with somebody about whether or not they are bored by something.
I just needed to vent in an anonymous forum, and this is the only one I belong to where I don’t post under my name.
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### Author:  [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/26 "2009-09-11T15:15:52Z")
I still remember where I was when Michael Thomas scored Arsenal’s second in the last minute to win the league in 1989.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/27 "2009-09-11T15:24:39Z")
> [@Kobal2](#):
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> So, where were you when they shot JFK ?
In a grassy knoll.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/28 "2009-09-11T15:35:05Z")
Where were you
When they built a ladder to Heaven?
Did it make you feel like cryin’
Or did you think it was kind of gay?
Oh, I believe
In the ladder to Heaven
Whoa whoa…
Nine-eleven.
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### Author:  [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/29 "2009-09-11T15:43:35Z")
Epic thread fail…
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### Author:  [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/30 "2009-09-11T15:44:04Z")
> [@cricetus](#):
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> I think those stories are lurid, vapid, self-serving, and obnoxious. I think it is poor form to make other people’s tragedies a story about how you found out about it.
Right on. My FB feed is full of people from other places doing exactly this, and ordering me not to forget. It’s offensive all around.
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### Author:  [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/31 "2009-09-11T15:59:02Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#):
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> Epic thread fail…
Based on that contribution, you are a high scool girl on live journal five years ago.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/32 "2009-09-11T16:02:14Z")
I remember where I was when I found out about Challenger blowing up. And about Princess Di dying. And about the Tiananmen protests (but not the massacre).
Oh, & September 11.
But yeah, it’s not relevant.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/33 "2009-09-11T16:58:44Z")
I’m not even sure where I am right now.
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### Author:  [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/34 "2009-09-11T18:03:05Z")
I was in Belgrade at the time and very busy with family problems, so I didn’t actually find out about the attack until September 12. I went into a restaurant. Many men were celebrating and toasting. I thought they must have won a soccer match or something but when I asked what had happened, they said “The Turks just stabbed the Americans in the back.”
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/35 "2009-09-11T18:20:41Z")
This is about bonding through shared experience. If you tried to establish what everyone was doing on any other day, they wouldn’t remember. Even Christmas 2001 falls into a blur of other Christmasses for me.
We all remember that day clearly, and with emotion. That’s a rare thing, and not every generation has one.
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/36 "2009-09-11T18:21:46Z")
> [@cricetus](#):
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> I do find myself exaggerating the offense to make a point. I mostly just find the stories boring. I don’t really care if other people tell them but I would like to get through the day somehow without hearing 500 of them.
See, here’s the thing. In order to get this, you would have to be interested in getting to know other people. . . you would have to be someone to whom alternate perspectives and experiences are interesting. For a narcissist like yourself, yes, the answer is probably to put your hands over your ears from Sept. 10-13 each year.
😉
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/37 "2009-09-11T18:30:34Z")
I remember the day Archduke Ferdinand was shot, like it was yesterday…
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### Author:  [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/38 "2009-09-11T18:39:51Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#):
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> Where were you
> When they built a ladder to Heaven?
> Did it make you feel like cryin’
> Or did you think it was kind of gay?
>
> Oh, I believe
> In the ladder to Heaven
> Whoa whoa…
> Nine-eleven.
I was sitting on my couch. I thought it was kind of gay, since Cartman is surely the kind of guy to just rob the damn store to get the candy.
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/39 "2009-09-11T18:51:37Z")
I’m moving this from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share.
**Gfactor**
Pit Moderator
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-when-stories/509683/40 "2009-09-11T18:56:50Z")
Unless I’ve missed a bunch of threads, there appears to be one 9/11 memorial thread currently active on the SDMB right now, and it seems to me that if you know that you are likely to become irritated, bored, and/or annoyed by people reminiscing about 9/11, that it would be pretty easy for you to simply not open the thread.
As opposed to this thread, which I thought was going to be a collection of “where were you when?” stories - which I completely unapologetically like to read.
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