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  • Celebrity Sightings on the Job?

    Anyone have any dealings with the famous and near famous in the course of their job? After today's crap fest of people screaming that I manged their gender or can't explain how tall twenty inches is or bend the laws of time and space I had a semi celeb sighting.

    Robert Conrad called up to order flowers and he started flirting with me! Okay, so I know he's a million years old and he's not acted in years but it was a nice ego boost after the day of crap.

    Usually I only get crappy z-list celebs, who act all filled with self importance. He was egotistical and was trying to get me to be all squee-fangirl with him but I wasn't playing that game.
    "No, I will not poop a shopping cart out for you." - Irving Patrick Freleigh

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    The only celebrity-type person I've known of at the clearance swamp is Tim Harris, former Green Bay Packers linebacker, who was involved in a local charity event for the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

    He was one of the people in the dunk tank during the fundraiser. He bought a water gun to shoot at people.

    From all accounts, he's a damn nice guy and offered to sign autographs for the manager. I would've preferred to see him perform his sack dance.
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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    • #3
      Only a local sport commentator who was surprised that I recognized him but didn't tell him what he did wrong when he was a football coach.

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      • #4
        I don't get any celebrities that I can speak of in my current line of work (HIPPA stuff), however, I grew up in the same town and Mom and Dad went to school with a couple of the guys in the Kentucky Headhunters (Fred and Richard). A girl that my hubby graduated with is now married to Fred. And one of the band members can be seen frequently walking at our local park.

        As a Team USA mom doing a fundraiser, we held a poker run in Nicholasville, KY where we started and ended the run at the restaurant owned by John Michael Montgomery. It was nothing to be sitting there waiting on the bikes to come in and John Michael to come in and speak with us.

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        • #5
          This was about 10 years ago, but Donald Trump came into the Lexus dealership I worked at one night. We closed the showroom to the public for him. He was "nice" enough, but still pretty snooty. He also bought 3 cars.

          Kevin Costner came in there on another occasion. He asked me for a pen....and kept it. lol

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          • #6
            Not my job, but my boyfriend works for a company that went into partnership with Livestrong.com. They had a party to celebrate/publicize it, and Lance Armstrong was there.
            Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. - Good Omens

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            • #7
              Working in a bookstore, I have seen many famous people there for signings or events. The only one I remember seeing just shopping was William Shatner.

              The Shat owns a horse farm by my old bookstore. When I checked him out he looked sunburned and grumpy so I was polite but didn't say anything else. He had a reputation among the other employees and cafe staff for being, um, less than a stellar customer.
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              • #8
                only two of note

                Gallagher bought his supplies from my grocery store at around 11:30 one night-he was funny and very nice.

                and a local radio dj(with a now syndicated morning show-so I won't mention his name) that I had never seen before-very full of himself-I carded him for alcohol and he got very belligerent with me-"do you know who I am?" Called me a "stupid little b***h"-a few years later my mom waited on him at wally world-he asked if she knew any single women-she said "yeah my daughter", and showed him my picture"-he asked for my number-good old mom replied "well considering she still talks about how you called her a stupid little b***h, I don't think she'd be all that responsive to dating you" He apologized profusely, mom did give him my number just for the heck of it-and yes I did turn him down, on air-jerk called from the studio-thought I'd swoon over him-PWNED!!!-he is married now and I wish him the best.
                Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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                • #9
                  Years ago (in the 80s) when I worked up in Connecticut, we had quite a few celebrity quasi-regular customers in the store --

                  Antonio Fargas (played Huggy Bear on Beretta)
                  Robert Vaughn (Napolean Solo on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Superman movies star)
                  Felix Caveliere and his wife (60s/70s rock group The Rascals)
                  The guy who played Chuck Tyler on the soap All My Children
                  Mia Farrow
                  John Oates of Hall and Oates
                  Meatloaf (singer)

                  Around here (NJ) I've only seen Phil Rizutto (sp?) -- Yankees and Rich Vos (comedian) in the stores. Well, before Phil died, I saw him a lot. I'm not seeing ghosts!

                  I know I'm forgetting some of the ones in CT. For a while up there I also had a part time job doing the vehicle emissions inspection. I failed three cars belonging to Paul Newman and one owned by John Oates. The Newman cars were souped up Maserati and Ferraris. The Oates car was just a Saab Turbo. Oates was nasty about it.

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                  • #10
                    My daughter is currently working in an upscale liquor store in the Geist area of Indianapolis. One of their frequent customers is Bob Kevoyan of the Bob and Tom radio show. On New Year's Eve, he came in and bought a couple of thousand dollars of liquor and cases of sodas and left without the sodas. The boss told my daughter to load them in his car and gave her directions to Bob's house. When she got there and told him he left them behind, he just told her where to take them to and left her to unload several cases of drinks from the car and into his house without any help. She was less than impressed. She had also served him before at the restaurant she used to work at. One time, she had to tell him that his credit card had been declined.
                    "I guess they see another cash cow just waiting to be dry humped." - Irving Patrick Freleigh

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                    • #11
                      Never in a service industry...but I did used to work as a journalist and I got to interview a few famous people.

                      The Cool:
                      Mark Hamill (nice guy, but talks a LOT. A twenty minute answer for "How are you?" However, I do have him somewhere on tape saying "Motherf***er!")

                      The Incredibly Cool:
                      Dennis Hopper (an absolute sweetheart of a human being. Had lunch with him--him, another guy, and me. He was genuine, seemed interested in things I had to say. Couldn't have been nicer, and signed autographs for my mom and all her friends.)

                      The Not-So-Cool:
                      Christopher Walken (Sorry...he was just weird and monosyllabic.)

                      ...and I once pissed off Sinbad the comedian at a trade show.
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                      • #12
                        Hmm...

                        Tom Hulce (Amadeus)
                        Tom Skerrit
                        Kevin Bacon
                        Kyra Sedgewick
                        The Seattle Sonics
                        Governor Norm Rice
                        James Earl Jones
                        Colin Powell
                        Secret Service agents

                        I worked at a children's theatre, and it was good pr to be seen there, I think. The former governor comes often with his family. James Earl Jones was doing a stupid verizon event. The Secret Sevice was there because Clinton was next door. The SOnics were at a big party thrown by some local billionaire. Kevin Bacon just came to a show with his wife and kid. Tom Hulce came to a show and left at intermission. Tom Skerrit was appearing in a play next door, and Colin Powell was doing some kind of event that I was not invited to. He did sleep on the couch in my office, though.

                        OH! I forgot about Adam Arkin, son of Alan Arkin, played Adam in Northern Exposure, and he's in the show "Life" right now. He was awesome! He had a kid in the drama school, and he would often hang out at my coffee counter and talk to me. His kid was super nervous, and I used to watch him talk her down before auditions.
                        Last edited by Can I Help Your A$$?; 04-05-2009, 05:53 AM. Reason: I forgot!

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                        • #13
                          Well...the founder of my org is a (very) minor celebrity, but there's probably a million or so folks who know who she is, so that's something. And I see her about once a week. I have a lovely teapot that she gave me, along with a stuffed toy weasel.

                          Celebs I've met outside work:

                          Ray Broadbury *swoons* My literary idol.

                          Several of the people from Jet Propulsion Labs , including Scott Maxwell, the team lead for the Rover Drivers who is a VERY nice person.
                          "Eventually, everything that you have said becomes everything you will ever say." Eireann

                          My pony dolls: http://equestriarags.tumblr.com

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                          • #14
                            The other week I helped Paula Dean exchange some shirts.

                            And I regularly see people that were on Jackass (Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, etc).

                            That's about it.

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                            • #15
                              A local athlete comes into my shop regularly. He's very nice and very quiet. Not much to say. I think he tries to avoid a lot of attention and I try to avoid calling attention to him. I also try not to ask him about his sport, since I figure he doesn't need the coffee wench bugging him about his job.

                              The funny thing is when I see him on commercials looking all intense and dramatic...I have to laugh to myself a little, because it's so different than the impression he gives in person.
                              My webcomic is called Sidekick Girl. Val's job is kinda like retail, except instead of corporate's dumb policies, it's the Hero Agency, and the SC's are trying to take over the world.

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