May 23, 2002
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Back to Normal Coverage
Done feeling sorry for myself. Sorry about that. I'm a very lucky guy.
Speaking of which, I'm not sure if I related the strange story of my neighbor who worked in the World Trade Center. He's an equity portfolio manager. On a typical day he would join his fellow analysts and managers for working breakfast at the club next to Windows on the World Restaurant. He usually arrived between before 8:30. On-time would have been fatal on September 11.
As he was leaving for work that morning one of the toilets in his home overflowed. He stayed to clean it up and change. The delay was enough to save his life.
I have a colleague who was headed to the same place for a technology conference but stayed in our building for a meeting with me (and others). Another friend who worked high up in the North Tower was suddenly called to Chicago the night before.
Everyone's schedule is impacted by random events, but it must feel strange to be one of these folks.
My colleague attended seven funerals the next week.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at May 23, 2002 6:23 AM | Technorati inbound links9-11 I got an email in mid-morning from a woman I worked with in '98 or '99 saying of one of our former co-workers: "He wants everyone to know that he's okay -- he missed his train and was late for work".
A little querying turned up the fact that he'd given up contracting and gone to work for one of the firms above the plane -- I believe Cantor Fitzgerald.
The mailing list she'd sent it to was huge -- I hadn't seen any of them in several years. But the mails started flying back and forth. One of them said "It's a miracle."
The next one said, "What do you mean, it's a miracle? He misses his train every other day". Which is true. When I worked with him, my boss was constantly on his ass about his lateness.
He has a hell of a rejoinder now.
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