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Flashbulb Memories
In psych the other day we had a hardcore discussion about "flashbulb memories"...memories where something big happens and you have a "flashbulb" picture in your mind of where you were when it happened...most notably today 9/11, and about how people consistently change their story over the years of where they were, what they were doing, whatever.
Anyway, here's what I was doing on 9/11:
I woke up when my alarm went off at like 6:00, but I went to hit the snooze and accidently hit off. My sis woke me up at around 7:30 and said "Hey Keith we gotta get to school...and yeah, the World Trade Center got bombed." I remember thinking..."Why is this such a big deal? Everything's been getting bombed lately. Probably just another stupid thing the media was blowing up..." Brushed my teeth and went downstairs to see the first tower collapse. That's when I knew it was really, really bad. I remember going to school and my dad talking about how the tickets we had for tonight's A's game were probably useless, cause they were going to get cancelled. I remember Chilcott, Boden, and Holman not making us do anything, Jorden Roberts completely blaming everything on Bush being an idiot, Sezen making us do work (shockingly) and looking up stuff with Ed Gonzalez on terrorist organizations.
The other big one is the OJ verdict:
Don't remember much about this one. I remember being in Mr. Bass's math class doing ditto-work and he had the radio on all morning. The verdict got read and the overall reaction was just a muffled groan. Then we just got back to what we were doing. We were 11, 12 years old...and it didn't matter much to us.
Anyway, what are your memories of these events?
Anyway, here's what I was doing on 9/11:
I woke up when my alarm went off at like 6:00, but I went to hit the snooze and accidently hit off. My sis woke me up at around 7:30 and said "Hey Keith we gotta get to school...and yeah, the World Trade Center got bombed." I remember thinking..."Why is this such a big deal? Everything's been getting bombed lately. Probably just another stupid thing the media was blowing up..." Brushed my teeth and went downstairs to see the first tower collapse. That's when I knew it was really, really bad. I remember going to school and my dad talking about how the tickets we had for tonight's A's game were probably useless, cause they were going to get cancelled. I remember Chilcott, Boden, and Holman not making us do anything, Jorden Roberts completely blaming everything on Bush being an idiot, Sezen making us do work (shockingly) and looking up stuff with Ed Gonzalez on terrorist organizations.
The other big one is the OJ verdict:
Don't remember much about this one. I remember being in Mr. Bass's math class doing ditto-work and he had the radio on all morning. The verdict got read and the overall reaction was just a muffled groan. Then we just got back to what we were doing. We were 11, 12 years old...and it didn't matter much to us.
Anyway, what are your memories of these events?
Fairly similar
I had Sezen's class with you too, even when all of Cali was losing power, he made us do work. I wonder how Ed is doing heh.
I was in my 6th grade class except I remember people being happy instead of sad. My grandmother had been visiting and most of what she did was watch that trial. I thought it was so fucking boring. I didn't really care at that time.
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Flashbulbs memories are cool. I always have them for the most random events.
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