When something bad turns into something good....
skibum609
Massachusetts
My cousin took his wife and family to see his favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, play their hated rivals, the New York Yankees, in the real Yankee Stadium. It was fall, and a sunny day, but soon it turned colder, and it began to rain. It rained and rained and rained, but they stayed. My cousin wouldn't leave a Red Sox game he told his wife, unless I have a heart attack...a big one. More than 2 hours later, cold, wet, and miserable, the four of them left, because they finally postponed the game.
The next day, after a crappy, angry, restless sleep, she slept through her alarm and instead of exiting the subway at her usual time of 8:00 a.m., she exited at 8:45 a.m. As she stared forlornly at her office, she wished she had stayed home and became angry at her Husband making the family sit in the rain for over 2 useless hours, on September 10. Suddenly, as she looked at her office, American Airlines Flight 11 appeared, striking the WTC, and killing every one of her co-workers who had showed up on time. She suddenly realized that if her crappy Husband hadn't made them sit in the rain, she would have been on time and while she had already survived the first WTC bombing, she would not have survived this and she would now be dead with all of her co-workers. They never made up the cancelled game, but this Thanksgiving we will celebrate 13 years of feeling differently about the rain, rainouts and will remember that sometimes something bad will actually turn out to be something good.
The next day, after a crappy, angry, restless sleep, she slept through her alarm and instead of exiting the subway at her usual time of 8:00 a.m., she exited at 8:45 a.m. As she stared forlornly at her office, she wished she had stayed home and became angry at her Husband making the family sit in the rain for over 2 useless hours, on September 10. Suddenly, as she looked at her office, American Airlines Flight 11 appeared, striking the WTC, and killing every one of her co-workers who had showed up on time. She suddenly realized that if her crappy Husband hadn't made them sit in the rain, she would have been on time and while she had already survived the first WTC bombing, she would not have survived this and she would now be dead with all of her co-workers. They never made up the cancelled game, but this Thanksgiving we will celebrate 13 years of feeling differently about the rain, rainouts and will remember that sometimes something bad will actually turn out to be something good.
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That day an armed man came in exactly 2 hours later and shot a guy right where they kept the newspapers, and then took hostages. If I didn't get fucking lazy and leave work early, that might have been me.
Eerie how that happens. I also knew someone who was on the tarmac for a flight to Newark on 9/11 when they had a "national security related air traffic incident."
3 years later I worked right across the street from the WTC, in a building that was used as a makeshift morgue.
We were all New Yorkers that day.
Also, what about the proposed ground zero mosque?
I would say stuff like that, shows that there are limits to freedom of religion just like there are limits to freedom of speech.
monday my boss chews me out for being late. monday night i watch the tv to see the weather report and there's a storm heading towards nyc from fla. tuesday morning i totally forgot about the weather report and yep was going to be late again and more than likely going to get canned. turned out that storm took a sharp right turn away from nyc that tragic morning. the sun was out that morning.
the tragedy actually saved my ass from getting axed from that shitty crummy job. but after running across some commentary about that storm a couple of years ago just made me wonder. don't most storms generally head a straight path and almost never make sharp 90 degree detours?
go to youtube and look for the weather news the day before. what may you conclude?
I don't see how not having a mosque there violates freedom of religion.
I don't think it's uncommon for storms that meet a powerful area of high pressure to have their paths diverted.
I can only imagine how they felt. They were not in their offices by a sheer stroke of luck. For that matter, if they had decided to hold the event if their event facilities in the WTC, the audience might have been there too.
Another friend was on the steps up to the Pentagon when that plane struck. Luckily, he was opposite from where the plane struck.
One more friend, an architect and former paratrooper,was doing his work designing reserve centers when the plane hit. If his office hadn't been moved due to the construction being done, his office would have been directly in the path.
Good things indeed!