Bagel Day

Tuesday was Bagel Day at the software development center. I favored Bagels & Baguettes near Stanton Park. There was a line when I got there, around 8:30 AM. The shop is near Senate office buildings and the Heritage Foundation, and the TV is tuned to CNN to keep news-obsessed customers occupied.

By the time I got my two dozen hot bagels, the damnedest thing was on the television. An airplane had crashed right into the middle of a World Trade Center tower in New York, and the building was on fire. It was September 11, 2001.

Bagel Day

Tuesday was Bagel Day at the software development center. I favored Bagels & Baguettes near Stanton Park. There was a line when I got there, around 8:30 AM, but the shop is near Senate office buildings and the Heritage Foundation, and the TV is tuned to CNN to keep news-obsessed customers occupied.

By the time I got my two dozen hot bagels, the damnedest thing was on the television. An airplane crashed right into the middle of a World Trade Center tower in New York, and the building was on fire. It was September 11, 2001.

Bagel Day

Tuesday was Bagel Day at the software development center. I favored Bagels & Baguettes near Union Station. There was a line when I got there, around 8:30 AM, but the shop is near the Senate office buildings and the Heritage Foundation and has a TV tuned to CNN to keep the customers occupied.

By the time I got my two dozen hot bagels the damnedest thing was on television. An airplane crashed right into the middle of a World Trade Center tower in New York and the building was on fire. It was September 11, 2001.

I got the to the office break room, put out the bagels, cream cheese, and smoked salmon. I guess I was making coffee when the second plane hit the other tower. I figured people still had to eat.

The developers were plugged into the web, and learned as much – or as little — as anyone that morning. We knew another plane hit the Pentagon and heard the false report that a fourth had hit the White House. There was a rumor that a plane had hit the Capitol, but we were two blocks away and would have heard that.