Cranjis McBasketball
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Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 11, 2019 18:46:16 GMT -5
Honestly, the OJ chase is the first moment of my life that I remember exactly where I was. It was my last day of 4th grade. Mom picked us up, went to Toys r Us because I had a great report card, got home and instead of cartoons, every channel was just covering that damn car chase. Columbian was the next, mostly because I was a 15 year old goth pot head who cut school that day(4/20). The next day at school was the first time literally EVERYONE was nice to me. The verdict for me. I was in jr high. We had just come back from lunch and they actually delayed class so we could watch the decision being delivered. Our teacher walked into class and just wrote “OJ free” on the board.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Dec 11, 2019 21:37:06 GMT -5
Challenger. Watched it live in school. I remember what I was WEARING that day.
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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Dec 11, 2019 23:20:01 GMT -5
New Year's Eve 1999. I stayed up just to see if anything would happen. Some kids thought the world ending or the resurrection would happen. I just thought the power would go out or maybe an earthquake.
I remember playing Twisted Metal 3 and checking the clock to see midnight had passed. At that point everything was good.
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Post by Stu on Dec 11, 2019 23:43:57 GMT -5
Some of ya'll are young.
I remember hearing about the Challenger like the day after it happened. But my first full memory goes to the 1989 Bay Area Earthquake, also known as the World Series Earthquake. I was outside riding my bike and I happened to be in a neighbor's driveway. I heard rumbling and thought it was the garage door opening, so I moved. But the shaking continued. I went inside to find our shoe rack had collapsed and my brother saying the game was probably cancelled.
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Milkman Norm
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 11, 2019 23:58:30 GMT -5
Aware of: Baby Jessica
Can Remember: Fall of the Berlin Wall
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mattperiolat
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Post by mattperiolat on Dec 12, 2019 0:10:30 GMT -5
Challenger for me too.
First, some context.
In July 1985, my dad treated me to a two week trip all over the US. The surprise was flying from Texas to Orlando for Disney World and the Cape. I remember driving around the space center on a bus and there, on the pad, being prepped for a launch, was Challenger. She was actually supposed to launch the day I left Florida and I was practically begging to stay to watch, but Dad said no way. For the best since there was a delay.
Flash forward six months to third grade. It had been played up, of course, that a teacher was going to be on Challenger and also the mind blowing frustration with delay after delay of trying to get Challenger up. I remember... just before recess, the teacher called us all to our seats and told us the shuttle had exploded.
I started screaming.
Not proud of it then or now, but... it hurt. It hurt in ways I still can’t even define. I remember going out for recess, finding my sister on the playground and telling her. I don’t remember the recess to lunch period, but when we came back from lunch, the TV was in the room and on and we just watched for the rest of the day. That video playing again and again... it haunts still.
What’s weird is... it took weeks for me to be able to cry. I think I was just... numb to it for a while. Too much shock. But after a week, I was just reading a USA Today article on it and I collapsed in tears. I wanted still, even after Challenger, to someday be an astronaut and go into space. Unfortunately, my father did not share my optimism and turned it into a torture. I was never good at math and every night as I struggled with multiplication, division, fractions, I mess up, I heard the same response: “Nope, sorry, shuttle just blew up.”
I hate my father.
Sorry, this went way darker than was meant. But that’s what I remember. But I pretty much have a story for what everyone else has shared too - Loma Prieta, the fall of the Wall, Chernobyl, OKC, OJ, Waco, 9/11, Columbia, JFK Jr. Diana... I’ve seen a lot and remember as much.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 0:33:11 GMT -5
Not my first, but one that really stands out:
Person: "Hey, did you hear about Michael Jackson?"
Me: (Rolls eyes, expecting a tired joke) no, what about him?
Them: "He died."
Me: (thinking, "is that a lame joke, or not?")
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Kyn
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Post by Kyn on Dec 12, 2019 2:23:35 GMT -5
Princess Diana dying.
The other is 9/11. I had free period one and two that day, so I was still home in bed. (It happened in the morning here in Australia.) My mum came home from dropping my sister at school and came into my bedroom and said very dramatically, "The shit's hit the fan."
I asked why, (because my mum thinks everything is dramatic, and I was expecting it to be something like a catfight at school.) She said someone had flown a plane into the Twin Towers, and by the way she said that, it was obviously a big deal.
Unfortunately, I had no idea what the Twin Towers were. So I lay in bed giving her my best 'yes this is very bad and serious news' face, then stayed home for the rest of the day watching television to work out what going on.
In retrospect, it's the only time her 'civilisation is collapsing' approach to everything that happens in life has been warranted so far.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 2:50:17 GMT -5
I remember my favourite gaming show not being shown on tv because of 9/11. I was probably under 10 during that time. After that, ' imagined planes dropping everywhere daily and was kind of sad 'cause I learned and understood what terrorism really meant. It's kind of crazy how many people died in 2004's Indian Ocean earthquake and/or tsunami. After hearing about the whole situation and seeing pictures of that scene, I was ready to leave this planet already.
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