<p>I was a bigger dork for saying “hi” to a man I saw in the grocery store several years ago. Later that week, I realized that I had never met the man. He had been on the local news for weeks, as the prime suspect in a young girls’s disappearance.</p>
<p>Oh Toledo, you poor thing! </p>
<p>Yikes. Well, you did recognize him…just didn’t know why. I can’t tell you how many times I see someone that I have met, sometimes more than once, and can’t recall their name until I leave. It’s so embarassing!</p>
<p>Toledo that gave me a much needed LOL.</p>
<p>I live in a small town popular with celebs and was very involved with kids stuff so lots of moms know me but I don’t always remember them. I am constantly struggling to remember someone in the store and realizing later that they aren’t local they are a celebrity. duh!</p>
<p>I am both a geek and a dork (happy to admit to being both! :)).</p>
<p>A couple years ago D & I were walking down the street in Chicago and we passed a very questionable-looking bunch. I commented to D on the fact that they were pretty scrungy looking & she laughed … it was Kid Rock & his posse.</p>
<p>I have since seen him around town (I live near his home town). I keep my opinions about his appearance to myself … the man is incredibly philanthropic, so I have decided his looks are his business. ;)</p>
<p>that thing happened to my friend twice. First time with Kobe Bryant at the irvine spectrum he bumped ways with him</p>
<p>second with pau gasol walking down sunset. I envy him so much</p>
<p>I have taken care of alot of professional sports players wives when they are having their babies. They all (husbands and wives) really appreciate when you treat them like anyone else.
Usually I know who they are but I was taking care of the wife of our NBA team’s head coach and I couldn’t understand why they were concerned about being delivered before that nights game started. I just thought they were huge fans!</p>
<p>PRJ - that is so cool!</p>
<p>My husband often meets very famous people and he is usually oblivious. My favorite is when my husband was at a dinner in DC that I couldn’t go to and he’s sitting next to a super model and her boyfriend. He told me the boyfriend was really interesting and they had a great time that evening talking about all sorts of stuff. I asked him which super model and he said he recognized the name but couldn’t remember it anymore and he was much happier with the boyfriend than her. This is why we will be married forever - this woman was half my age, half my weight and twice my height and yet, he had no interest in her!</p>
<p>I was just at my class reunion a few weeks ago. One of my classmates (a guy from my neighborhood that I used to ride the bus with) is in the entertainment industry and he’s married to an actress. I heard this lady had played a mom on a TV show, but I don’t watch TV, so I didn’t know which show. At the reunion, my twin sister and I were getting dessert, and the “actress” started talking to us–saying, “I really like your class, everyone is so down to earth, etc. (LOL, of course, this is Ohio, not Hollywood. . .) What do you do?” Well, my sister is a doctor, so that always sounds good. I said I’m a stay at home mom. Then she said, “Well, when I started my show, there was some debate about whether my character could be “just” a mom–shouldn’t she be going to college part time or something, since it wasn’t that PC to be a SAHM. . .” Then I told her,(as my “excuse” for being a SAHM) “Well, I have 7 kids, so most people would rather go to work than do what I do.” She didn’t seem to understand this–like the fact that someone could have 7 kids was automatically deleted as “impossible”, and my sister had to explain that, yes, indeed this lady right here had 7 kids. . . She was stunned. Whoa! I told her that I was hoping to win the prize for “most kids”(which I did). Anyway, after I went home I looked up this actress. Turns out that she played a mother of 7 on a show that was on for like, 10 or 11 years! DARN–If I had known that I would’ve offered her MY autograph. (She didn’t seem interested in meeting the “real deal”–she wanted to see the cartoon her H had drawn in my sister’s yearbook . . .) She seemed like a perfectly ordinary, nice person.</p>