LogFAQs > #967965165

West coast, was living on a military base. The news was on as my older sister and I were eating breakfast and when she pointed out the plane crash stuff to my mom, my mom insisted it was like the war of the worlds broadcast. And if it actually was real, that was across the country so it shouldn't affect us. Not long after my older sister and I headed out to the bus stop.

Now, as you can probably imagine the gates in and out of the military base were shut down as tight as they ever possibly could be. Nobody was getting in or out except on priority business so only the most important ranking officers who lived off base.

Like 40 minutes after the usual pickup time my older sister and I were 2 of like 6 kids left at the stop. The rest had gone home by then. Mom told us to go back and keep waiting. She was busy getting ready to head out to work.

An hour more passed and no bus. We ended up heading to the house of a neighbor kid who was still waiting with us that whole time since her parents were both gone.

Eventually my mom showed up and was yelling at us for not telling her where we were. Ugh. There's more but mostly it was just the memory of breakfast and waiting for the bus.