I was working in a hospital in Florida... as a sitter for a junkie who was in detox.
He freaked out and had to put in a straight jacket.
2006-08-30 18:45:39 · 27 answers · asked by Chris C 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I had just gotten off of work at a pizza joint. I worked really late hours and I used to turn on the TV to help me settle down to sleep. My husband and I were both trying to unwind and there it was. I just stared at the screen, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
2006-08-30 19:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by jmlmmlmll 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was on the news as I was leaving with my mom & son to go to Urgent Care at Kaiser Permanente here in Calif. The accident had just happened & not much info was on the news. By the time we got to Kaiser, the news had a whole lot more information. My son wasn't even a year old at the time & I was feeding him in his stroller while waiting on my mom to finish with the Urgent Care staff. He was fussing about eating the food when the news announced she'd died. My heart dropped to my stomach & I started to cry. Several people around me were shocked, a few gasped in horror, a few shook their heads in disbelief. When the nurse called me into the exam room to wait 20 minutes with my mom for a possible reaction to the antibiotic shot, I told them what'd just been reported. They were shocked too.
I started tuning into NBC & Dateline to find the best coverage. Dateline gave accurate information, even going so far as being one of the few news channels to state they didn't know an answer or that they had no new information. ABC would too but encouraged too many rumors of the papparazzi chasing Princess Diana's car. CBS kept repeating things & was frustrating to listen to. NBC had the best reports in my opinion.
Her death used to hit me hard for a few years. I would have to take 3 days off work, the 30th, the 31st of Aug & the 1st of Sept to deal with my emotions about her death. Kleenex & Puffs sure made a bunch of money from me for those 3 days in the past. I've always wanted to travel to England to meet her somehow, but now I won't get to. I still want to go to England to see her burial site. Now, to deal with her death, I light a candle & say a prayer that she's at peace, watching her boys grow up.
2006-08-31 02:03:33 · answer #2 · answered by Belle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I remember like it was yesterday. I was with my twin sister staying in Bellville,NJ staying at my 2nd older sister's house for the weekend. I was watching cartoons on one of the network channels,while eatting breakfast. Then the cartoon was interupted,as news report came in. Of Princess Dianna's accident in Paris. I was glued to the TV,praying that she'd be okay. But as minutes turned into hour or so,then when it was confirmed she died and how. I couldn't eat anymore of my breakfast,cried uncontrolablely for most of the day. :(
2006-08-31 01:54:12 · answer #3 · answered by Gadget 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in Puerto Rico at the time and I was going to pick up a friend in town called Caguas. I remember seeing the newspaper in my front door and just being flabbergasted. I felt numb throughout the long drive.
2006-08-31 01:51:01 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was out with some friends having a few drinks and playing pool, when they had the news flash on this big TV screen... and the whole place became very quiet, as we all became glued to the sad news...
2006-08-31 01:52:30 · answer #5 · answered by Ms Fortune 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was at my best friend Nita's house and it came across TV. Reading the person's answer who said they thought Pavarotti did it made me remember that a friend of mind also thought that and signed that to his hearing-impaired dad. His dad signed back, "Why was that fat guy on a motorcycle??" His dad figured it out on CCTV a few hours later, but not before we gave Bobby a really hard time for telling his dad that.
2006-08-31 01:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by pvpd73127 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Getting High, playing Tomb Raider
2006-08-31 01:48:15 · answer #7 · answered by Wineguard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We were at the stock-car races when the wife of one of the drivers came up the stairs and said somebody told her they'd just heard the news on the radio.
Princess Diana may have been a "complete stranger" in that most of us never met her, but her death was one of those occasions that sticks out in most of our memories.
2006-08-31 01:55:54 · answer #8 · answered by 60s Chick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was working driving a truck in Scotland, thankfully the roads were not busy as I found myself almost on the wrong side of the motorway (freeway). To this day she is still missed.
2006-08-31 02:36:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sleeping...she was killed in the early hours of the morning and we're the same time as Paris here in South Africa.
2006-08-31 01:54:46 · answer #10 · answered by waterbabe23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋