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Originally posted by pony_trekker
Elvis: Working a summer job for the NYC Housing authority painting fences.
Reagan: College Radio station.
Challenger: watching TV in a hotel room in Travers City Michigan after my roomate kept me up all night fucking some skank.
Berlin Wall: Working at a stock quote systems manufacturer which is in the same building I work in now.
Princess Di: DNR
OJ Arrest: DNR.
OJ Decision: Watched at a bar around the corner from Smith Barney (where I worked)
9/11: Got out of the City Hall train station after the second plane had hit. Walked over the bridge toward Brooklyn. I was near the EDNY court house when all of a sudden people started screaming. I asked what happened and some one said "The building fell." Then 30 seconds later that awful crackling sound hit.
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Working when Elvis died? Day-yum. You people are old.
Elvis: At the time that the King was found dead in his bathroom in Graceland, I was a mere molecule of water in a cloud, waiting to form a rain drop, after which I fell onto a wheatfield in Nebraska, after which I was processed into cattle feed, after which I was eaten by a steer in Iowa, after which I was turned into a porterhouse in Chicago, after which I was shipped to Natchez, after which I was consumed by my father a week before the annual anniversary riverboat cruise, after which none of your goddamned business, after which nine months later I was born.
I keed, I keed. I was actually on the monorail at Disney World.
I have a much stronger memory of Lennon's murder, probably because he was actually musically relevant at the time of his death. He had just released a new album, the first in a long time (as I recall, his retirement from music during the late 1970s was some sort of penance for leaving Yoko -- he stepped out for a pack of cigarettes, and was gone for 3 years, or something like that), and it was pretty good.
Uh, gym class. Coach Gallagher was upset.
