I was at work in downtown T.O..
At that time, my employer had just laid off the entire company, well everyone but me! So, there I am, in a huge office working by myself when my mother in law called me to tell me that a plane had just crashed into the tower.
I ran down to a coffee shop on the ground floor, just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. People were obviously very concerned. Rumours started that perhaps Toronto was going to be a target as well and company's began sending people home.
At around 11:30am I called my new boss to find out what my instructions were only to be told that they had shut the company down for the day and "geez, I completely forgot about you there by yerself!" "Get out of there as people are saying the First Canadian Place could be a target and you aer only half a block from there...". I really didn't want to have FCP and it's 72 stories land on my head, so I got outta there!
I was home by noon and like many others I'm sure, spent the rest of the day watching the news and wondering how our happy little world had gone to hell in a hand basket.
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