[b]raffy[\b], I agree completely with you. As the towers were burning and disintegrating before our very eyes on Tuesday, vendors were still selling cheap wallets, belts and CDs as sirens wailed around them. I could not believe it. One vendor (on 6th Ave, with a clear view of the WTC) tried to shove a sales flier in my hand and I turned to her and said, "You have GOT to be kidding, don't you know what is happening?!" Then on a corner further south as the second tower exploded were three women, smiling and laughing, discussing one's sunglasses, where she had bought them, debating UV aspects of them and so on ... while most people around them were in tears and shock, screaming that the tower had gone .... I don't see how these women could have not known what was going on even if tourists. How oblivious and self-centered can someone be? I did see a few people shopping that day and wondered how they could do this. I even felt guilty taking my cat to the vet yesterday, how could I be thinking of this when so many have died, and even for eating something and for being hungry, when so many don't know where their loved ones are and so many will never be able to eat again, but then I also tried to give blood right after. Life goes on, I guess, even if we are all numb with pain. But it IS hard to comprehend how people could act so cavalierly.