User talk:Annoyedperson

Taylor Erickson 3rd mod 12/14/09 I was looking at articles in magazine from 2001 when I was in pop culture. I saw an article of the September 11th attack. I started to think about what happened that day. I only knew about my sister being deployed to Iraq I didn’t find out about 9/11 until the week after. I thought about the attack for a while after it. I couldn’t help but wonder if anyone did anything to stop it.

I know I would have it would have saved a bunch of time and my sister wouldn’t have gone to Iraq. At the end of the day I was walking home and I needed to call someone to pick me up because it was too cold. I walked up to a pay phone and called my mom. She didn’t answer her phone, so I just decided to walk instead of waiting for her to pick up her phone. I was walking home and a truck was speeding and drove past me turned a corner and something fell out of the back of the truck. They didn’t seem to notice considering they kept driving.

I walked up to it to see what it was, and I didn’t know what it was. It was heavy, made of metal, and had a keypad on it. I thought it was a calculator for a minute so I pressed a button. Several lights started flashing, I pressed some random buttons and they showed up in separate LED screens. I pressed another button and it started humming, then it got really hot so I dropped it. Suddenly blinding lights shined in different directions, the light began to rotate. I closed my eyes for a second and it turned off. I looked around things looked different.

I tried to pick it up but it was still too hot and when I dropped it, it started rolling. As I walked toward it I realized, it wasn’t cold. In fact it was warm. I looked at the street and saw cars coming, but they weren’t modern cars. I saw the cars go by and they were Chevy, Mercedes, and Cadillac’s from 1980s. Although I thought it was weird for so many cars from the 1980s were in the same place I just walked towards a gas station.

As I approached it I noticed it wasn’t the seven eleven that should be there. It looked much different kind of an older look for gas stations. I walked inside and looked around. There were no starburst, skittles, or even snickers. I looked down and saw a newspaper on the floor that fell apart. I picked it up and read the headlines “Titanic wreckage found!” I looked at the cashier and said “ How old is this newspaper?” He gave me a funny look and said “I don’t know a day maybe I haven’t changed the newspapers from yesterday. ” “yesterday?” I said. “yeah you know the day before today”. Ignoring the cashiers smart remark I folded up the first page, and put it in my pocket, and I walked outside. I looked around and saw everyone where a much different kind of clothing then I.

I ran back to where I left the strange object, I came up to it still laying where I left it. I picked it up, it was much cooler now. I read the screens It said 09 1985 4 30. I thought for a minute, this thing was definitely not any kind of calculator, I pulled out the newspaper and looked at the date the date was 9/18/1985. I looked at my phone I had no signal, and it said it was about 4:35. I couldn’t believe it, then I thought what could I do with this? I couldn’t buy a lottery ticket. “Nine eleven!” I yelled. I walked away to a parking lot, I looked at it and dialed in 09 11 2001 6:00am. After going through the blinding process of time traveling I waited with it until it cooled down.

When it was cool I called a cab and rode it to the airport. When I got out I told him I didn’t have the money and ran inside. I looked for a flight going to New York. Gate 10b was the one I was looking for. I went in line thinking I could tell them I left my ticket on the plane until I saw the person in front of me had their ticket hanging out. I quickly grabbed it then tapped him on the shoulder and said “ do you mind if I go in front of you? I the rest of my family is already on the plane” “go ahead” he said.

I walked up gave the ticket to the attendant and walked onto the plane. It was pretty full I guess we were about to leave. I walked up the aisle and found my seat. Thankfully I got and empty row. I sat there for a few minutes than someone sat next to me. It was an older man he was wearing a suit probably off on a business trip. After a few minutes I realized this is a pretty big plane.

I asked “do you know what kind of plane we are on?” he replied “I believe this is a Boeing 747”. A Boeing 747 I thought to myself…..this must be the flight. I nervously sat there waiting for the flight to be over. Each minute passed painfully slow. About halfway through the flight we turned, and I was wondering why. With a loud bang one of the terrorists kicked the door to the cockpit open. Many screamed everyone was scared.

We stared at him with fear on our faces, he was just standing there. Holding an AK47 ready to use it when needed. We were talking amongst ourselves someone who had contact with his family on the ground said the plane has been hijacked. I decided to get 3 other people to go with me up by the door while they terrorists were all in the cockpit. As soon as he came out we grabbed him took his gun away. He was struggling and making noise so we closed the door and knocked him out with a tray. He was out and as far as we knew the others were not aware of anything that happened.

We went to the kitchen area of the plane and boiled water and put the into bowls. We took the bowls of boiling water with us to the cockpit. One of them busted the door open as the four of us stormed the cockpit poured the water on the terrorists and knocked them as well. While the plane was losing altitude fast I left the cockpit and yelled “does anyone here know how to fly an airplane?” “I do!” yelled a passenger. He came up into the cockpit and took control of the plane while we tied up the terrorists. It was bump but he landed the plane on the nearest airport runway nearly missing another 747.

The first plane that originally hit the twin towers landed so airplanes were not given permission to take off so the second plane never left the ground. Since I helped they offered me a free flight home, after the flight I walked to where my house would and dialed in 12 15 2009 4 00 on the device. After the blinding light left my eyes and I was home I decided to bury it. I carried it on the shovel and buried it in my backyard, never to be seen again.