Dialog Fails
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What do you remember about today?
On Sept. 11, 2001 I woke to the clock radio and a bulletin about a plane crash. We hadn’t owned a television for ten years, so I went to a neighbor’s house. This man had been raised in a small farming town, and had moved to another small town, and had never been to the East Coast.
As I watched the endless televison coverage, this neighbor joined me for a moment. As he watched the planes veer into the towers, he said, “Well, if you’re going to live in a city like New York you have to expect these things to happen.” He shrugged and walked away.
Note how sometimes the most stupid lines of dialog are the most lasting.
Dialog Fails
I was living in Hawaii. Had never been to New York. My tween son said, “is that the new Die Hard movie?” Truth stranger than fiction...
I was a Junior in HS, still drunk from the night before off of Heaven Hill vodka. Nearly barfed on the bus ride then slept through the entire day minus flashes of watching the catastrophe on the classroom TVs.