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I haven't been to Vancouver since Sept 2010.

Time for another visit.

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There is a category of stuff that falls under the heading of: I remember exactly where I was and exactly what was going on when it happened.

9/11 is probably the prime example for this part of the world and this generation. Many people of a certain stripe would say the death of Princess Di.

I myself would add the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I don't know why that one struck me so hard - doesn't seem that wildly significant in retrospect - but whatever, I remember exactly the intersection I was sitting at in my car when the news came over the radio.

I don't have a whole bunch of those things. John Lennon's death is one for me. Very clear memory of seeing the headline and going home (I was on my way to work.)



to be continued . . .
 
Dude the Challenger disaster was awful for me. I was in 1st grade, my teacher hated me because I was always clowning around. We didn't have a TV in our classroom so she asked me to go to another room and check on it. Everyone there was crying and when I came back I had to break the news to my class, and no one believed me when I said "it blew up!" because I was always clowning around. Fokked up. Then it was verified and everyone in my class started crying etc., etc. :fok:

Congratulations on the Cup Matty that's one way to start a work day.
 
Now on this topic of stuff remembered so clearly . . .


I might just have those 3 things: 9/11, Challenger, John Lennon. Maybe someone will remind me of something else but that's all I got at the moment.

Sports, I consider a different category of thing. There are dozens of sports events where I have a clear memory of my circumstances when I saw them. What TV I was in front of, with whom, blah, blah, blah. I am cursed with a ridiculous memory with a lifetime of stuff - much of it insignificant, much of it annoying - and sports is right in there. Mostly good stuff though, with the strong sports memories.

But anyway it's a different category of remembering than 9/11 etc. which are almost like traumas.



Why do I bring this up? Because I heard a guy blabbing on the radio and he talked about Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfields ear as one of those life events where he will always remember where he was - and he's sure many others feel that way.




Face-fucking-palm.
 
I have a lot of boxing-related moments like that. I vividly remember where I was when Roy Jones was KTFO by Antonio Tarver.

I was home.

No but seriously that was a traumatic event. Roy was Superman until that point.
 
Yeah I know shit. Even when I don't want to know shit, I know shit. Not that Tupac is in the category of, like, Britney Spears where I know a whole bunch of shit I really don't want to know.

To be honest, Tupac is nothing to me. I'm not sure I had heard of him before he died. I couldn't identify a single song of his. Couldn't tell you if he was happy or angry or interested in racing RC cars or what.

But yeah, I figured I was probably in the ballpark with the year of his death.
 
Seems like a dubious choice by the kindergarten teacher.

I was in my car in Brampton, sitting at a red light at the intersection of Steeles and Highway 10 heading north when the news came on the radio. I was in the middle lane. There was quite a bit of traffic, many cars all around me.
 
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