Meeting a Famous Person

I was just reminded of my experience last week that I forgot to write about........
When I arrived at the library I noticed a stranger on the computer (I know virtually everyone that comes in to use the computers every day). He was a thirty-ish, tall, good-looking man with dark-rimmed glasses.
As I was walking by to put some movies on the cart he looked up and said,"Hi."
I smiled and returned the greeting and turned away to finish what I was doing. He was still looking when I glanced back. "Um...do you need some help?" I asked.
"No. Just saying hi," he said. He totally gave me THE LOOK.
Then Mr. Jiang came in a little later. He's very chatty and likes to make friends. He began chatting with the stranger and asked where he was from.
"I'm from Atlanta," the man said.
"You from 'nother country?" Mr. Jiang asked.
"No. I'm from Atlanta."
"'Nother country?" Mr. Jiang asked, confused.
"No. At-lan-ta," the man said slowly.
Then one of my co-workers told Mr. Jiang that he was from Georgia.
"Oh. Georgia," Mr. Jiang said.
Anyway, when the man was done on the computer he handed me the key and I went to give his license back, but we didn't have it. I wondered why. Then the man started talking about what a nice town this is and how nice everyone is here, all the way smiling at me in THAT WAY.
After he left Jan said,"I think he liked you..." I asked her who it was and she said,"Peter Fletcher."
Duh! Peter Fletcher. He is a classical guitarist. No wonder he gave me that look. It wasn't THE LOOK after all. He was just shocked that a cultured library person such as myself had not recognized him. I would have been a lot nicer if I'd known it was him. Maybe I could have asked for some tips...I told Jan I should have been nicer and she said,"No, I think you were nice enough...." wink, wink.
The library had hired him to do a concert at the local retirement home (it's the nicest concert-holding place in town). You'd think I would have known it was him. I mean, his picture was only plastered on every wall and bulletin board in the place. He looked different in person, though.
So that's my only experience with meeting a celebrity, unless you count the time when we went to Channel 22 and got to meet Luke Choate, Debra Daniel, Amanda Harte and that one tall blonde lady that used to do weather. Mr. Choate looked just like Regis Philbin up close. The meteorologist was the only one of the women that was nice. The other two were really snotty. Debra Daniel was dressed in jeans and a dress jacket and during commercial breaks she would look in the mirror and put her feet on the desk. Amanda Harte walked by us when we were in the hall. She wouldn't let Mom take her picture. That was right after the big scandal with the cop she had been currently dating. I don't remember what it was...something happened at the mall with the cop doing something illegal or something, I don't know. But anyway she was really touchy. After the taping Debra shot right into the ladies room so we wouldn't bother her. It was a fun field trip. We got some good pictures.
We also got to meet Jack of Jack, Shannon and Bruce from Sunny 101.5.
We went to WNIT once, too and got to watch a taping of Outdoor Elements with Eve whatever her name was. She was nice. I think the show was about walnuts or something. We got to walk around the stage after the taping and then we were shown the ins and outs of the recording process. That was cool. I wanted to work in television after that field trip. Did you know that WNIT comes out of Elkhart High School? Yeah, they're studio is in the high school. Weird, huh?
And at 22 WSBT they had a really cramped studio. It was in this long building right in the middle of downtown South Bend or Mishawaka or wherever it is. It was pretty tight. We got to see inside one of their news vans.
Who says homeschoolers never get to do anything? We had the coolest field trips. We went to all kinds of places that were fun and or educational.