William Rodriguez never took a sick day in his nearly 20 years as a custodian at the North Tower of the World Trade Center. But he seriously considered it on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
“It was so beautiful outside, I thought, ‘I’m just gonna stay home and hang out,’” he told The Post. “I called my supervisor and said I wasn’t going to work.”
But his boss begged him to come in — a decision that would change the course of his life.
Rodriguez arrived at 8:30 that morning, too late for the free breakfast his friends working at Windows on the World on the 106th floor usually gave him on the sly. Instead, he went directly to the B1 basement.
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