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Not my story, but my mothers, however worth sharing.
We used to live in St George, a small country town in outback Queensland, Australia. My mother ran a small computer store attached to the house. Since it was a small town, we got very little in the way of "walk-in" customers and most of the time Mum was in the house with a sign on the door of the shop indicating this.
So, in 1999 Mum is doing stuff in the kitchen and she hears a knock on the door. She goes to the door, opens it, and is quite shocked to see Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness standing in front of her.
Hugh was in Dirranbandi, an even smaller country town, about an hours drive away from St George filming the movie Paperback Hero. Because he was going to be away from the city for a while during the filming, he had bought himself a laptop computer and bought an internet connection for him to use during the time away. The problem was he had no idea how to use it.
He had asked around and he was told that my Mum was the person to speak to about any computer problems so he drove over on one of his days off.
So, Mum spent about and hour and a half with the pair of them, showing them how to use it all, setting up the connection, showing how email works, etc. Mum said they both were exceptionally polite, well mannered and easy to work with, and she's never had a bad word to say about them since.
My only brush with "celebrity" is that I'm good friends with one of the actors who played Mr Skyfish in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome. He also owns a Logie!
We used to live in St George, a small country town in outback Queensland, Australia. My mother ran a small computer store attached to the house. Since it was a small town, we got very little in the way of "walk-in" customers and most of the time Mum was in the house with a sign on the door of the shop indicating this.
So, in 1999 Mum is doing stuff in the kitchen and she hears a knock on the door. She goes to the door, opens it, and is quite shocked to see Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness standing in front of her.
Hugh was in Dirranbandi, an even smaller country town, about an hours drive away from St George filming the movie Paperback Hero. Because he was going to be away from the city for a while during the filming, he had bought himself a laptop computer and bought an internet connection for him to use during the time away. The problem was he had no idea how to use it.
He had asked around and he was told that my Mum was the person to speak to about any computer problems so he drove over on one of his days off.
So, Mum spent about and hour and a half with the pair of them, showing them how to use it all, setting up the connection, showing how email works, etc. Mum said they both were exceptionally polite, well mannered and easy to work with, and she's never had a bad word to say about them since.
My only brush with "celebrity" is that I'm good friends with one of the actors who played Mr Skyfish in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome. He also owns a Logie!
That's how I got to jam with 3 Dog Night.
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