I normally am not at a loss for words. I speak in front of large crowds, and I have a decently fast quick wit. But for some reason whenever I meet celebrities that I look up to I become a blabbering idiot.
Take for example the band dc talk. The summer of fifth grade I discovered dc talk and they instantly became my favorite band. The day before my senior year of high school a friend and I drove to Maryland to see them in concert. We got to the concert really early and ended up watching their sound check. After the sound check the band came walking towards us. Now you need to understand that I was such a big fan that I had compiled a list of questions just in case I ever got to meet them.
The band was walking towards me. I got nervous. My palms started sweating. When TobyMac, my favorite member of the band, approached I blurted out “REMEMBER ME.” It wasn’t a question. It wasn’t even really a statement. It was more of a pathetic request. He smiled and nodded and then quickly walked away. I felt like a starstruck idiot.
haha. i remember you rob…and i get a feeling he might now too…lol.
So funny. I, too, got to meet my favorite band at the time. In college, I was crazy about Bon Jovi, had pictures plastered all over my walls. Well, my junior year right before spring break, I told my roommate that I was going to meet them one day, and I meant it. She laughed. Well, I won backstage passes from an obscure music store that very spring break, probably within a week of telling my roommate. I had not planned on going to the concert before I got home, but saw the ad in the paper for the chance to win backstage passes, entered once, and won. I was 19 at the time. I knew this opportunity would never come again (and frankly I can't believe it ever did happen), so I forced myself way out of my comfort zone, and talked to Jon about another concert of theirs I had attended a couple of months before that was postponed due to snow. I'm sure it sounded really stupid, but hey, I had a conversation with him!
He got married about about a month or so later, so I guess I didn't make much of an impression. 😉
Nice walk down memory lane.
This was hilarious. Such a random thing to blurt out.
Very random… for sure. Funny stuff.
I'm curious to know if this is your most embarassing time with a "celebrity?"
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Haha…I hate when I do stuff like that. Looking back on it you can always think of great things to say, but right at that moment it's like your brain fizzled out.