Exiting a sales meeting with a client. My Dutch colleague called crying "what the hell is happening in your country!?"

Horrible.

8th grade gym class. 

I remember going to the gas station with my mom after school to top off our car, we had to wait a long time to get to a pump because so many other people were there.  My dad was also out of town on business on the west coast so he had to drive home.

Those are just some random things I remember from the day.

RIP Gordy Aamoth and Darya Lin

In high school, on my way to 3rd period. Saw a kid that had this awful look on his face. I asked him what was wrong and the rest is history.

7th grade, Sports Sociology class. Teacher turned the game on and within minutes was instructed by the principal to cut off all live feeds. School was dismissed early; insanely long lines in carpool lanes. Went home and called friend to get his thoughts. I'll never forget the shock and general lack of understanding. Parents didn't do the best of jobs fully explaining the situation.

Freshman year high school English class. TV's were on in each class the rest of the day. No work was done the rest of that day.

I walked into Hutchins Hall, and there were TVs in the hallways.  

Getting my wisdom teeth pulled...I was real, real confused when I woke up.

8th grade history. Our teacher was pulled out of class and told the news and then came back and told us. Everybody spent the rest of the day watching the news on tv.

I had no idea anything was going on the entire day. Some kids got pulled put by their parents but mine left me in. We were far enough away in Flint that I think they just didn't want to freak me out as much. So I didn't actually find out until I got home and saw the coverage on TV.

Working as a bank teller the week before classes started for my sophomore year in college...customer came in and asked what we all thought...spent the rest of the working day in the break room...watched both towers fall...most surreal experience of my life

I was at my office. Coworker had a small black and white tv that he kept in his office. He pulled it out and turned it on after the first tower was hit. Several of us were in his office when the second plane hit.
Never forget.

In my living room, homeschooling my four children.  We didn't turn on the TV during the day, so we were all just immersed in grammar and math...until a friend called and said, "Turn on your TV, it doesn't matter what channel."  As we sat there and watched, the second tower was attacked.  My kids didn't learn any more math or grammar, but we had a long lesson on war and peace, aggression and forgiveness, and what it means to be the United States of America in an angry world.

Working in Grand Rapids had Stern on and Bababoey comes in says a plane hit a tower they just carried on like it was a accident . Bit later he comes in with the news of the second plane. They were right there and it was pretty intense. Howard called it right away, it's those F ing terrorists. I knew the jet fuel would drop those buildings and it was sad to just wait for it.

In a class on the third floor of French hall, at the u of m flint campus. Once we heard about it we all went and watched the tvs on the third floor UCEN. Crazy that was 15 years ago.

In my office in Sarasota, not far from where George W was at the time it started.  Headed home shortly after the news broke and really hadn't grasped the magnitude of the event until much later in the day as more and more info became available.  

I was a first year med student in class. I remember it was the most beautiful day outside and being very confused as several classmates kept leaving the lecture hall. A few minutes later the professor announced that the first flight had crashed into the World Trade Center and canceled class for the day.

Working in the Galleria in Southfield. Had my own broadcast to deal with at the time, was getting spotty information and not quite understanding what the meaning of "It"s gone" meant until I went out to look at the CNN feed.

Senior in high school in calculus class.

My teacher had a goofball personality and told us. This lead us to think it was a joke.

We didn't understand the seriousness of it until later.

I was in ISS my Jr year of HS, we watched it live on Channel 4 here in metro Detroit, the school went into a panic and a bunch of us just left not knowing the significance of the situation, we just wanted to leave school.

I was in the 10th grade and got pulled out of history class because my dad had a ticket for AA Flight 11 out of Boston. I met my brother and mom (who was a teacher at nearby middle school) and we basically assumed my dad was on the flight. You couldn't call anyone bc all the phones were down. After a few hours he walked through the front of the school which was like a moment out of a movie.

Thankfully, he had a last minute meeting that morning and decided to move to the afternoon flight but still has his ticket for Flight 11. Probably the worst few hours of our lives, but thankful everyday he made that decision.

1st or the 2nd grade, in class waiting for the teacher to tell us what to do. Principle walked in whispered in her ears, and then we got dismissed. My school was a couple blocks away from the river, right across the buildings. Me and my parents stood and watched as it happened, like everyone else. I didn't really watch it on tv since we saw it person and I couldn't really process what happened.

At work. My wife stopped by to drop off something I forgot for work and told me that a plane had hit the World Trade Center (this was before the second plane hit). I became concerned later as the daughter of our friends worked in Manhattan, was later that night I heard she was safe

i was at work. all government employees were sent home early. ran home to call my family in DC and make sure my aunt wasn't at the Pentagon that day. luckily she wasn't. then called my best friend mom to see what was going on with him as he was in the Navy at the time. spent the rest of the day wondering what to do next while watching constant news coverage. terrible day

I was interviewing at Morgan Stanley for my first job post Michigan.  I was chatting with the department MD when someone opened the door and told him that he needed to come asap. This was about 5 minutes after the first plane hit, before the second plane hit and before anyone knew what was happening.  We were all watching the TV trying to figure out what happened until the 2nd plane hit... just the most awful day ever.

I was in 6th grade. We were not dismissed early from school but can remember the teachers being called to the staff room mid class to inform them of what was going on and one kid in our class who was picked up early telling us he went home because the Eiffel Tower was bombed.

The only day I remember being picked up from school by both my mom and dad as they were dismissed from work early

I worked in Tower One but never made it in--I was running late and PATH train service was suspended by the time I made it to the Journal Square station.