Fruit Machine Chat

Ten years ago. September 11th happened, I was 18 and going to play halo with my mates for a couple of hours before my shift at pizza hut.

I was in bed and just woke up and put telly on at quart to two. Watched it all without getting outta bed

id just done about 15 vivids and a snake rattle roll, then was just wandering into work for the late shift.

I was working for a builder at the time building an extension, all my work mates went pub at dinner time (never wanted to back after one so did'nt bother) and told me about it, at the time we thought it was an accident, then we heard the second plane hit, got home just as one of the buildings collapsed and could not believe my eyes, still sends a shiver down my spine watching it now!!!!

was living in my council flat with tracy (only a year together at the time),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,, couldn't believe what we were watching ,,,,,, all those lives wasted . ,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, it seemed so surreal at the time ,,,,,, like it wasn't really happening ,,,,,,,, but sadly it was.


doesn't seem like 10 years has passed

In food technology at school.... Making a pasta salad. Was nom.

Just returned home from sixth form and the news channel was showing footage of the second plane hitting. Sixth form seems an awful long time ago. 9/11 sure doesn't.

Agree 100% with trayhop

Sitting in the dentist to get a filling done, and watching it on televison in the waiting room.

Was doing a jpm fireball in a pub and then watched it unfold. Same pub has a mega now.

Did a few more fruits whilst watching it on tv, but eventually lost interest and went home.

I was in a casino in Bristol enduring a miserable run at blackjack, I was losing so quickly that it seemed I was just constantly handing £50's and £20's over the table, and my chips were disappearing as fast as I could lay them out.

A casual acquaintance sauntered over from the bar area and said,

"Have you seen the news?"

I replied, "No, I can't see the tv from here".

"You should come and see, it's terrible, a plane has hit the World Trade Centre, it's like a war zone out there..."

"Card please"

Shortly I went skint and wandered over to watch it all unfurl. It was all pretty disturbing, but I remember feeling strangely ambivalent, because it was America and not Britain, and i'd just lost around £3000. Others were joking that it must have been a woman pilot.

However when the second plane hit, EVERYONE, including myself, was just stunned, as it dawned on us all that this was no freak accident. Incredible stuff, spent the rest of the day glued to the news. The sight of people leaping from the burning buildings was particularly harrowing, what a choice to have to make, burning to death or jumping to certain death from a great height.

What really made me sick was reports of muslim enclaves in areas such as Bradford and East Ham reacting to the news of the atrocity with glee, literally taking to the streets in celebration, and burning the American flag.

Dirty, vile animals, deportation orders should have been slapped on all of them.

Here here!!!

Was at a mates house after school when I heard about it, my mum was on a plane home from the UK, so naturally I was a bit shocked, and worried at the same time..

I was working in a library between uni years 2 and 3. Was told by staff to go downstairs and watch the news on one of their big screen TVs. Saw a replay of the first collision and saw the second one live. I was a clubhead back in those days and I could tell that the atmosphere was different when I went clubbing later that week. Following week, I was back at uni for year 3, then student mindset kicked back in. Beer, clubbing and a bit more beer, and it was also when I started playing fruit machines actually!