i watched the events unfolding in the classroom of my 7th period AP english. the 20 of we 16/17 year-olds sat and watched it on the monitor, not even comprehending that it could be true.
we didn't see any planes hit the buildings, we all tuned in too late for that. we did not yet understand how grave the situation was.
we were watching fox news in the room and a reporter was walking around on the street. he interviewed some fellow who was on his way home, stuck in traffic. the man had an amazingly thick new york accent who chose some *cough* interesting diction (as in: every other word was fuck) and we laughed. it was involuntary, as many laughs are, and it was just a chuckle, but as soon as the class laughed, we realized as a whole that it was totally inappropriate for the situation.
i completely forgot about us laughing until reading blusNvodkas replies....
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Re: Yes...
Date: 2001-09-17 06:33 pm (UTC)we didn't see any planes hit the buildings, we all tuned in too late for that. we did not yet understand how grave the situation was.
we were watching fox news in the room and a reporter was walking around on the street. he interviewed some fellow who was on his way home, stuck in traffic. the man had an amazingly thick new york accent who chose some *cough* interesting diction (as in: every other word was fuck) and we laughed. it was involuntary, as many laughs are, and it was just a chuckle, but as soon as the class laughed, we realized as a whole that it was totally inappropriate for the situation.
i completely forgot about us laughing until reading blusNvodkas replies....
O_o very strange.
i guess it was just a release.