Everybody's got that story that's true that nobody else believes, and mine is that my family was in NYC days before 9/11. We'd been visiting relatives on Long Island, and spent a few days in manhattan doing things like going to Macy's and FAO Schwartz and climbing the statue of liberty because that was a thing you could still do. I remember we left on the 9th, and as we were on the thruway headed back across to new jersey I swear on his goddamn ashes in the urn on the mantle my dad said, "You'll always know it's the New York skyline by those two towers."
No one in the family talked about this for approximately a decade, because oh my god, oh my god.
Also, one of my aunt's exes worked in the one of the WTC towers, but he was on vacation that week. That one's less incredible but still a bit wild.
Anyways happy 9/11, please remember one of the most inadvertently funny things in retrospect my dad ever did.