I remember this day well too.. (Score 1)

I had just started lunch in the High school cafeteria. Some school official came on the loud speaker and said something that was too low volume-wise to compete with the always deafening roar of the students running their mouths. What we could make out were the words Challenger and teacher. My friend Eric said "It's prolly just some PR spiel about have the first teacher in space". With a big smile and quite the kidding tone I said, "Hey, Maybe the shuttle just blew up!" We laughed, and went back to plowing through our sheppard's pie and running our mouths.