9/11. Where were you when you heard about the insanity of that act of mass murder perpetrated by insane criminals. nota bene - my long term memory and recall is every bit as accurate as yours. (2Bcontd...)

On 8/11 with two other BT operatives I travelled as a passenger to Amersham Rd. A355 in a BT PEU vehicle where we met three BT operatives from Reading TEC. steve williams drove the BT Hoist 5A vehicle. 

Along the length of a part of the A355 which was controlled by temporary traffic lights I assisted to erect the required number of telegraph poles (a total of eight poles) as described in the issued job pack. That completed the work for the day.

On 9/11 I drove a BT Land Rover vehicle on which was attached a trailer containing a drum of ariel telecomm. cable to that same location The "substantive" C1 grade BT IT Gold User drove the PEU and steve williams drove the Hoist 5A.

Alongside steve williams (and dave west, John P. & a graham somebody-Reading TEC) and a "substantive"(if you don't mind) C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor, I assisted to erect some 300+mtrs of ariel telecomm. cable. The work was completed by approx. 4 p.m.

Job completed, about to travel home and the phone calls come in about what was happening in New York.

The three Readings BT operatives drove off home, steve williams drove home (High Wycombe) in the cherry picker and I boarded the PEU and travelled back to Aylesbury TEC with the "substantive" C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor. On that journey home the radio was on (5Live I think it was) and I listened to what was being reported of 9/11. I recall a shocked and outraged Ehud Barak referring to the reported terrorist act as being the work of modern day international pirates and fanatics. I recall a completely shocked and unbelieving  Jack Straw being asked to speculate on the numbers of British people who may be involved. I recall hearing the incredulity in every persons voice on the radio. I recall a reporter using the term Al-Qaeda, I recall recognising that term and it's meaning. I recall being a little worried that the horror of what was being reported as happening, was happening to the most powerful nation on earth and that the man who was currently in situ as Commander in Chief was a man who wielded ultimate virtually unlimited power, and a crime against humanity is reported as being carried out against the USA. Even from my moderately uninformed position of the body politic of the USA, the anticipated knee jerk reaction and response of that man and his Neocon White House buddies worried the shit out of me. 

I recall thinking that I instinctively knew that good ol' George dubya would loose the plot. Loose the plot and label all Muslim PoC as, in part, responsible for the sick, criminal actions of an infinitesimally small number of insane fanatics with brown skin, who have usurped the name and identity of a respected worldwide religious faith, to their own sick ends.

In short I thought: There will be hell to pay for this, but not by the arse holes who have carried out the atrocity. They are untouchable, unlike the millions of people of the Muslim faith still living.

Little conversation was engaged in on that return journey to Aylesbury. I recall some many ...fuckin 'ell, ...fuck me ...the fuckin cunts. (sic). I recall hearing ...this'll fuckin do it, come the revolution, fuckin 'ell, I told ya. (sic). I in turn thought: What a twat, him and his twat's fucking revolution. The racist arsehole.

Back at Aylesbury TEC, the driver jumps out of the PEU and cannot wait to spout off to other BT operatives who were in the yard and in the signing on room that in his opinion WW3 is about to start and that his (so-called) revolution is imminent. Only he, obviously, never used the word imminent.

I ignored the prick and went to wash up to go home and watch the telly. Washing my hands to have a piss and go home and: Oops! you're not going anywhere Colin, except back to Amersham. I re-entered the signing on room and told the "substantive" C1 grade BT IT Gold user team leader supervisor that he was not going home and nor was I. 
I received a ...oh, have you twigged then... look in response. 
I responded by saying: You have to drive me back to Amersham, the Land Rover and trailer are still there and the keys are in the vehicle. To which I was told ...ahh no, I got the keys, it's locked.

I do not know whether that BT vehicle would have 'disappeared' overnight had I not recalled leaving it in situ with the keys inside as I had deliberately left the keys in the ignition after reading the newspaper in the Land Rover during lunch. You see I being responsible for the vehicle having driven it to site, I was responsible for the BT vehicle returned back to BT premises. n.b. I did not receive a logical or coherent reply that made any sense when I asked the person in possession of the Land Rover keys: Why he had taken the keys out of the ignition, locked the vehicle, put the keys in his pocket and allowed me to drive back to BTs Aylesbury TEC as a passenger in his PEU vehicle, leaving that BT Land Rover on site 25 miles away?

I could not be refused a lift back to Amersham. A BT operative named ron something or other allowed us to use his, small transit vehicle in order to go back to Amersham and collect the BT Land Rover. No radio in ron's vehicle, so that half an hour journey was back to Gore Hill/Amersham Rd was conducted in silence. I was thinking about the images of what was currently on the telly and I was thinking whether that BT Land Rover would have been visited during the night and removed to a 'safe' place had I not recalled the fact that I had left it at Amersham with the keys in the ignition, or at least that is where I presumed the vehicle keys were as that is where I had left them. I did not know that unknown to me another BT operative, had locked the vehicle and put the keys in his pocket.

I was dropped off on site and drove the vehicle back to Aylesbury and then went home and like you, watched the TV news with horror and incredulity.

That is where I was when 9/11 happened. Where were you? No don't tell me, let me guess: ...No that never happened. (sic) c.April 2007 courtesy of Horwood & James Solicitors. Bless 'em!

I can also tell you where I was and what I was doing and thinking when e.g. when Kennedy was shot, when The Great Train Robbery happened, when Churchill's State funeral was happening, when the Rev. Dr King was shot, when Bobby Kennedy was shot, when I saw men talk to other men from space, when I got my Heinz Apollo big colour posters of Earth Rise etc. 

Yeah, I can tell ya a lot of shit. Mostly about how vehemently and adamantly opposed white people in BT are to being legitimately and openly outed for who they are, for what they are, for what they represent and exposed/outed for what they can, with confidence, lie and deny their way out of and be believed, be supported, be endorsed and encouraged by other resentful white people of similar and/or like mind set to themselves. 

And then confidently proceed to openly and persistently call a black man - me - a liar and proceed to poison the minds of gullible fools with your and your mates' vindictive, cowardly retaliatory, totally false and untrue racist's bullshit denials and lies in order to make BT workplace life intolerable for the black man who outed you, who outed your scum bullying big mouth gobshite mate poozicKA and who outed your line manager BT Colindale TEC suck buddies, outed your pathetic, BT Oxford Woodstock Rd. TEC sad twat followers et al. at various levels of that FTSE 100 company. A company who contractually gives all those people whom I have legitimately attempted to hold accountable and responsible, a very good living in exchange for undemanding unskilled telecomm field and office work, whilst many of those very same people screw you, the employer, day in day out. 

Yep, I can recall bucket loads of that shit, just as well as I can recall where I was when the disgusting, incomprehensible and total criminality of the shit that was 9/11 happened. 

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