Crazy semi-famous celeb customer!

[JustAGirl]

Well, this is actually two or more stories, but here's the short version:

Stuart Townsend (actor, BF of Charlize Theron)
Ian McKellan (Gandalf and Magneto)
Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler and a billion others)
Pierce Brosnan (Bond, James Bond)

Two of these men came into my shop and were very non-SC
Two of them I have seen naked.

Ah, memories.

LONG VERSION WANTED!

And I'm hoping its Stuart and Pierce... but I can deal with Ian and Alan as well.

damn you.

I was 16 when I played a few hands of poker with a drunk and stoned Willie Nelson after he was done signing autographs after his concert at our County Fair (won 50 bucks off him and had never played poker before). I've jammed with 3 Dog Night, and seen Sammy Kershaw in his black silk boxers. Oh yeah, and I've called Leann Rimes a foul-mouthed cunt, to her face (she was AWFUL while in her dressing room, think of the worst SC you've ever had, multiply it to infinity and you've got her!)

DAYUM... I was hoping Leann would be nice... the worst SC? WOW... she looks so... sweet. I guess those are the ones you need to worry about.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I learned last time my aunt came to visit from Texas that my cousin went to high school with Dr. Bailey from Gray's Anatomy

[ominousoat]

I'm guessing Allan Cumming was one of the nekkid ones.

I'm crossing my fingers for Ian McKellen.

[Severen13]

Several years ago I was getting ready to move to Washington DC to start a new job. My dad and I were in DC looking at apartments when we stopped in a Starbucks for a break. At the counter there was a well dressed and polite man placing an order, and rather noticably, two Secret Service type guys hanging around. They had the shades and earpieces and everything. My dad started chatting the Secret Service guys up and it turns out the man at the counter was the mayor of DC, Anthony Williams.


Who woulda thunk?

[Jack7957]

My only store related meeting was with one of our local news anchors. She came in right at closing with her kids, they were going on a school trip the next day and needed Twinkies. We didn't have any so I told her try the other store across the street.

I said hi to Chuck Mangione and didn't realize it was him till he was a good 200' away. He had said hi to my friend and I first before a Buffalo Bills home game.

Saw Quadry Ismael (Syracuse University, Baltimore Ravens) at the mall going to see the movies while he was still at SU. You could hear everyone in line whispering "there's Quadry" but no one approached him for pictures/autographs.

Met many former Bills players through my volunteer work with the Bills Community Relations dept several years ago. Leif Larson asked me for some pizza at an event because he was starving. He called me sir, and even said please/thankyou.
Rob Johnson was interesting, at any event that was mostly adults, he would get out as soon as he could. But if it was a kids based event, he would be there till the very end.
Doug Flutie was an ass. He would be polite to peoples faces, but you could tell from his mannerisms that he never wanted to be at any event. He was just doing it because of his job.

[zzapp the witch]

I was 16 when I played a few hands of poker with a drunk and stoned Willie Nelson after he was done signing autographs after his concert at our County Fair (won 50 bucks off him and had never played poker before). I've jammed with 3 Dog Night, and seen Sammy Kershaw in his black silk boxers. Oh yeah, and I've called Leann Rimes a foul-mouthed cunt, to her face (she was AWFUL while in her dressing room, think of the worst SC you've ever had, multiply it to infinity and you've got her!)

I was in 4-H at this time, and the stars' dressing room was attached to our small animal barn and you could hear everything they said in there. I and a few others were invited over to visit more than once, and to help finish off the catering.

Troy Palumalu (the Samoan Headhunter, Steelers) grew up around here, my bf was in the same class as him, his father lives down the road and is an absolute sweetheart (actually, the whole family is nothing but wonderful people) and I remember when Troy was a scrawny teenager who gave big hugs. (Can't remember if he was in 4-H, or just hung around at fair, but I remember that he helped me pack feed sacks more than once, I had a secret crush on him).

And when my hubby was a teen he watched Bill Murray buy toilet paper.

[neuman1812]

This isnt a customer related greeting, just a celebrity meeting.

An old friend of mine's uncle is the guitar tech for a famous rocker from the 60's. Out of respect for her family I wont mention his name cause you'd know her family with a simple google search. ANYWAY.. when he came to town on a tour we were offered a chance to see the show free Great! so we got there and my friends uncle got us in before the show while they were still setting up the stage. On the side of the stage was a little rest area with a couch and some tables. My girlfriend and I were sitting on the couch when some people showeup. This one nasty old looking guy comes and sits down next to my GF on the couch.. At first i thought he was a roady. This guy starts hitting on and flirting with my girlfriend. Im look at this guy giving him the evil glare and he still doesnt get it!.

After the guy left, my friend comes over and ask's if I knew who that was, When I said no she just laughed and said it was JAY GILES!

Thats right..Jay giles hit on my girlfriend

[trunks2k]

Oh come ON. You KNOW you have to tell us the long version now. And you also know that I am not merely talking about the two who were very non-SC, either!

I'm guessing Allan Cumming was one of the nekkid ones.

[smalltownclerk]

25 years ago, when I was a secretary at a local college, I met Jerry Ford. He was a very sweet person, with a warm handshake.

[Jester]

Well, this is actually two or more stories, but here's the short version:

Two of these men came into my shop and were very non-SC
Two of them I have seen naked.

Oh come ON. You KNOW you have to tell us the long version now. And you also know that I am not merely talking about the two who were very non-SC, either!

[RogueThinker]

Lucky Me

Well, this is actually two or more stories, but here's the short version:

Stuart Townsend (actor, BF of Charlize Theron)
Ian McKellan (Gandalf and Magneto)
Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler and a billion others)
Pierce Brosnan (Bond, James Bond)

Two of these men came into my shop and were very non-SC
Two of them I have seen naked.

Ah, memories.

[Casino Jockey]

the takeaway i used to work at was opposite a venue in where alot of bands and sports (such as boxing) took place. i have had people such as Kyle Gass (from tenacious D), Lisa Ogissaro (From the veronicas), and the lead singer of wolfmother. but the three that i really freaked out for were the following:

John Petrucci (from dream theater) - i was a massive DT fan for years and the entire band has never been to australia but John came for G3. he brought some bottled water and i asked for his autograph. he gave it to me and we talked a little about DT's music

Rebecca St. James - rebecca st james freaked me out. i love christian music so to meet one of the highest selling females of christian music was awesome

Michael W Smith - exremly nice and when i asked for an autograph he was awesome. funnily enough when he left my co-worker asked who it was. i told him and he freaked as well.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Reyneth - yes, Giada is very cool. I'll have to ask my ex how her latest visit to Store1 was. He was doing "security" for the event (he used to work there too and now works at a different store). Mario Batalli has been there a couple times, I think. Oh, and Nora Roberts. She's done that store several years in a row in the spring, so she'll probably be back soon.

We've had Steve Schirippa from the Sopranos. Some woman brought him a lasagna

One of my favorite author events was for Robert Kurson, the author of Shadow Divers. The divers who are the main subjects of the book, and 2 others who are also prominent, are from this area and all happened to be in the area that night. It was the first stop on his book tour and all four of them came; probably the only time that all 5 of them did an appearance together. So I have a copy of the book signed by all 5 of 'em. The 2 main guys are John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, who host Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel (Discovery Channel? one of them). They were very very cool. My ex had read the advance readers' copy of the book and got the community relations manager to book the author. BTW, if you're looking for something to read, I highly recommend the book.

Oh, I forgot, Queen Latifah has been seen shopping in Store1, several years ago. I wasn't there but I heard about it and the person who helped her didn't even realize it was her; another employee recognized her.

Oh, and draggar, last night I had a dream that Sylvia Browne was at Store1 again, and I went over to try to get you an autographed copy of her book, and they were out of the title you wanted and only had a bunch of a different title that apparently no one wanted. I was going to get you that title, but I guess I woke up cuz I never actually met Sylvia. Oh, and for some reason it was the weekend before Thanksgiving, but we were having Thanksgiving dinner, and I thought it was actually Thanksgiving, and somebody had to correct me on what weekend it actually was. I wonder if Sylvia could tell me what that means...

[Andara Bledin]

Oh, yeah. My brother's current girlfriend is friends with Axl Rose. She's a huge fan of Guns'n'Roses but will freely admit that Axl has a tendancy to turn into a whiny bitch at times.

The first time she met him was at a bar and she didn't recognize him and he had heard from her friends that she was a big fan, so he started chatting her up about the band and stuff. She says she about died from embarrassment when her friends told her who it was at the end of the night.

Also, my brother was on the golf team in high school with Tiger Woods. His opinion was that he was a spoiled little entitlement whore. My brother's word is not entirely reliable, but Woods did get banned from a benefit tournament for poor attitude/sportsmanship a couple of years ago.

^-.-^

[Misanthropical]

I hope you mean volunteers for their respective campaigns, not the volunteers that run the voting place.

It's the volunteers for their campaings. The volunteers for the voting place only tell me that my name is what they have down, not what I say it is.