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Someone didn't cancel their plans for the day. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Two possibilities here; either the country was under attack, and not only did this guy decide it was a good time to go bowling, but the bowling ally decided not to close for the day, or; this guy bowled at least one full game before 8:46 am. Not sure which is weirder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was in college in Texas when it happened. I don't remember anything closing.

All of my classes kept to their regular schedules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Interesting. I grew up in NYC, so obviously, everything shut down. We were kept at school (high school), but they gave up on teaching before noon, and everyone needed to be picked up by an adult (which was frustrating for me because I lived two blocks away).

I live in Massachusetts now, and most people recount something similar; not as severe, but school was let out early and their parents left work early. Maybe it was because some of the hijackers left from Logan.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Or started the game before then and decided to finish anyway. Or started before then and was too in the zone to hear about news.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Hey Earl, they just hit the pentagon. Maybe someone should tell Bill?"

"Look, he's at 260. Unless they get the White House, I say we let him have this."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Bill does for us in the bowling alley what G.B. did for those kids in the classroom.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

My money is on everyone being distracted so he took the opportunity to walk to the end of the lane and keep knocking over all the pins by hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even better, he was at work and couldn't think of anything better to do after the shift ended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait is this the real answer?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

It sure was:

And then it was 9/11.

“I was at work when it happened,” Bill said. “Of course we didn’t have a television there, but we had a radio and a newsflash came across the radio. So of course everything was dead silence.”

Bill and his co-workers finished out the day, and not knowing what else to do he said fuck it, let’s go bowling, and man is he glad he did because it was the best game of his life. He’d never bowled so well in decades of trying. He’d never bowl so well again. Amidst the chaos and fear and uncertainty of the world changing in ways neither he nor the rest of us yet understood, Bill Moro went and bowled a perfect damn game on 9/11.