I drove up 33rd Street and made a left onto 5th. I drove two blocks south and parked outside the bagel store, smelling the bagels before we got in the door.
"Are the everythings hot?" I asked the guy behind the counter.
"They just came out ten minutes ago."
"Great," I said. "Give me an everything with butter and a regular coffee."
Joe was getting an egg sandwich, so I went outside with my coffee. I pulled back the plastic tab on the Styrofoam cup to blow on the coffee. Something caught the corner of my eye, and I looked straight down 5th Avenue and saw smoke coming from one of the towers of the World Trade Center.