Everyone walks away before I could tell them that the woman wanted to travel with her friends on flight 175 and that their brother/uncle had by coincidence attended a meeting at the WTC that morning despite being a random Irish guy and not a New Yorker and he’d been helping a woman who had been severely burned by jet fuel find an ambulance when the plane his sister and niece were aboard slammed into the other tower right above them.
Guess I’m not good at parties.
In a similar vein, there was an engineer in 1945 Japan who was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. He was injured, but still went home to report to work in his home town of Nagasaki three days later.
He also lived to 93! The people who survived both bombings are called the “Nijyuu Hibakusha” (“twice bombed”) and there is a few dozen known.
#inappropriatetherearedozensofus
Got to experience 2 atomic blast in one week. Some people have all the luck.