I haven't met or even seen that many celebrities. The few I have were mainly at airports and I never said anything to them. I was with David when he talked to Norm McDonald for a minute and the time he told Richard Kiel that he liked his work in Happy Gilmore. My personal favorite is when we saw Ted Kennedy at the airport and David blurted out "KENNEDY!" and pointed at him. We were only about four feet away from the man.
I did have a run-in with Connie Chung twelve years ago. Her TV show was doing an investigation of the doctor's office where I was office manager. It was all a bunch of nothing (a patient tried to sue the doctor, the case was crap so it didn't go anywhere, so they went to the news media instead), but it was when there was a lot of talk about insurance and this doctor had had a lapse in insurance and (long story made short) Connie Chung's Eye to Eye picked up the story.
Connie Chung's people camped out in our parking lot one day. Then, Connie Chung showed up in our waiting room. I had to come out and handle it. I basically just said "No Comment" over and over while in my head I was thinking how skeletal Connie Chung looked (the camera adds 10 pounds is not a myth). I didn't even process the questions she was asking me. The cameraman put the camera right in my face and I instinctively put my hand up to push it away. Immediately I knew that was a mistake. You always see these investigative reports on TV where the person puts their hand up to the camera and it makes them look guilty.
I started to walk towards the door to just try to get them OUT of the office. The amazing thing was, Connie and her crew just followed me. I somehow managed to get them on one side of the door and I shut the door. Weird.
So, I was on national TV with my big hand shoving the camera away. And, the whole thing made me sick to my stomach. Ack, that was a stressful time. They ended their program with a quick note that the doctor now had insurance, but the damage was done. His practice in that area folded. He was able to open a new office in a new place and did fine, but what a lame thing to happen.
I have five kids including triplets. I'm too busy to blog, but I do anyway (uh, sometimes).
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