Meeting a Celebrity but Didn't Let On That I Knew Who They Were (r/AskReddit)

what's your I met two celebrity but didn't let on that I knew who they were story my dad and I bumped into Michael Jordan at a Walgreens near Chicago this was back in 2006 or so we were picking out birthday cards for my mom and MJ and his son came in the same aisle browsing some cards my dad kept his cool and continued to look through different cards giving him his personal space I on the other hand was nine years old and a normal sort of staring at him after MJ picked out his card he winter to me and gave me a walk by fist bump didn't really set in until I was older how cool that was I worked at a bombs in Mobile in NY as a clerk but once or twice I'd be called over to the in-store Starbucks cafe to help out whenever they were understaffed one time Alan Rickman came up and ordered something I can't for call wart I wrote an scrubber on his cot oh he smiled at me when he noticed it my husband was vacationing in Arizona killing time in a bar over a burger and a beer a guy sits next to him and my husband has a nice chat with him the guy leaves and my husband goes to close his tab and the bartender tells him it's been covered by the guy he was talking to the bartender asks if he knows who he was talking to my husband has no idea Chuck Norris it was his bar I was in a bookstore in RI and was in the horror section picked up a book by a Stephen King and flipped it over and saw his picture on the back or inside the cover I don't really remember I look up and in the next aisle over right across the bookshelves to me is a guy that looks exactly like Stephen King so I hold up a book and say is this you yep good books thanks and that was that worked at a hotel and Russell Crowe came in the lobby he went to the house firms and called front desk where I was working I could see him pretty easily I answered the phone and he asked to be connected to her room so I put him through this wasn't long after he threw a phone at a hotel clerk so I didn't want to take a chance at pissing him off about 40 years ago my father was sitting next to telly savalas it's in Vegas blackjack table for about an hour they talked and bear some large amounts of money and my father never let on that he knew the guy was famous telly finally says it's pretty cool at you haven't asked for my autograph my father responds well you didn't ask for mine telly laughs and writes on a cocktail napkin hey Jeff can I have your autograph he carried that damn napkin with him for years my dad did something similar with Huey Lewis of the 80s they were riding alone in an elevator and my dad said something like hi I'm Mike I'm sure you've been dying to meet me by all accounts Huey was reasonably amused as they parted ways when the elevator stopped my ex's brother and his then GF were once in an elevator when this incredibly tall guy got in with them the GS stared at him for a few seconds as the elevator started moving again and then blurted out I'm paraphrasing they're close enough holy dick - you're tall you could be a basketball player or something the guy chuckled and said yeah I get that a lot as he got off at his flew that guy was Michael Jordan was at a convenience store in LA when me and a very nicely dressed black gentleman walked up to the cashier at the same time to pay it was nighttime and he had his dark shades on and was talking on his phone I gave him the afteryou gesture and he nodded and said thanks buddy paid and left it wasn't until he was out of the store that I realized he was Jamie Foxx was walking out of a gas station over on Crescent Heights and sunset and heard a hey hey coming from a cracked window on tinted out Range Rover that was parked at one of the pumps I walk over to the car to see Jeff Goldblum and that somehow seen my gold ring I was wearing on my right hand from 20 feet away he proceeds to tell me how he loves my ring and has been looking for one just like it and asks me where I got it I tell him it was my grandfather's and he asks to see it up close I hold my hand up to jeff goldblum he takes my hand gushes about the ring for a minute and thanks me I said sure and walked back to my apartment I like to think they're friends now Conan O'Brien my college friends dad owned an Irish restaurant in Manhattan and she waitress there back in the 1990s she said he was super rude to the staff and was a bad tipper one day a bunch of us were walking in the city and we saw him at a sidewalk cafe we stopped and stared and he noticed we were talking about him my other friend went up to his table and asked him to take a picture of us and handed in her camera his friends at the table had a huge laugh at his expense as we posed for a picture without a minute we never let him we knew who he was now we all held dear and nos sent a photo of us with a funny backstory before I realized who he was Sean Alexander asked me if I liked football I told him I liked the Steelers he said yeah I lost to them in the Superbowl I felt pretty stupid but he thought it was funny super nice guy samuel l.jackson was on my flight I was second-to-last aboard the flight and there was all this commotion with the flight attendants and gate crew once I approached the door of the plane I realized they were all looking at samuel l.jackson he was standing by the cockpit making himself available to passengers fans I played it cool didn't say a word turns out I'm shy around celebrities I'm just glad I didn't make a snakes on the plane joke not sure if this counts as a celebrity but last fall I was flying from LA to Dallas and the person sitting next to me was a Real Housewife from Bravo I didn't recognize her since I don't watch show show but she did mention it to me multiple times during the flight she wanted to apologize in advance in case there were fans hounding her at the baggage claim spoiler alert there weren't hours later when I was checking into my hotel she was there in the lobby and made sure to tell me again that she was on TV this will get buried but I went to college in Silicon Valley one day I was at the Apple Store buying a new laptop after my L dropped out the person helping me went to go get the laptop I wanted and this chubby middle-aged dude with an unkempt beard and a backpack that looked like it's weighed 100 pounds came over to me he told me he overheard what the sales guys and I were talking about and told me to be sure I asked about the student discount I thanked him and we parted ways later that year I was watching some show about something or another and that same guy from the Apple Store appeared on screen turns out the beard and backpack Guero was Steve Wozniak he lived in the city I went to school in and apparently liked to go to the Apple store in the mall like a regular OS person couple of years ago I was playing blackjack at a relatively low stakes table maybe $10 minimum I was chatting up a lady in her 30s next to me just chatting nothing more a hue band was sitting next to her he was a frumpy guy in his 60s after about 30 minutes he took off and left the table I was still chatting up the lady and she told me that other guy was her husband I asked why there were in town and she said for work she mentioned that her husband was the for Aerosmith Joey Kraemer playing at the same casino the next night I stupidly asked how when he started playing with them horribly since the beginning edit chatting up in US English I guess in the UK it means something different there really was no flirting involved not sure if this counts but when I was 15 I was really into playing Starcraft being a three month old game at a time on battlenet I did mostly 3v3 games after finishing this one particularly epic match close game we won we all got into a chat room to talk about how fun that was if I recall correctly one of them says something to the effects of not sure if you all care but you just beat Ben Affleck of course we all asked him to prove it so he told us to wait a minute and visit his official web sites message board beneful dot-com or something like that he had just made a post in red red being Ben Affleck himself about just losing a game of StarCraft we briefly chatted with him and that was it he was a massive gamer if you played Starcraft during the early 2000s you probably lost to Ben Affleck at some point I meant Justin Timberlake and have no idea it was him until someone told me afterwards went to a basketball game with my dad and we stopped by the bar area in the arena first the game had just started so it was pretty empty except for the bar itself my dad goes to the restroom and I walk up to the bar to order a beer there's only one seat of the bar next to a guy in a baseball cap and sunglasses I politely ask if the seat is taken and he just says no it's all you we shoot it for a couple of minutes he's sitting on my right and eventually he says he and his wife are going to go to their seats he extends his hand and asks my name I tell him and ask his name he says Justin nice to meet you dude have a good night he and his wife leave and the bartender comes up to me and says you know that was Justin Timberlake right I immediately did a double-take and couldn't believe I didn't recognize him even with the hat and sunglasses I told my girlfriend at the time who was a huge Justin Timberlake fan and she couldn't believe I met him without knowing it was it she wouldn't let it go for like a month edit to answer some questions this was a Memphis Grizzlies game and know the bartender wasn't messing with me because during one of the time nuts they showed him on camera and had him come onto the court away the fans and hype the crowd up etc I don't think he expected them to do that and didn't like it because he left at halftime probably just wanted to go to a game without being hounded by fans or something edit - I never got a good look at Jessica Biel she was wearing sunglasses as well but she didn't say anything at all during our conversation and since I didn't even realize I was talking to Justin Timberlake I wasn't about to gawk at this random beautiful woman while talking to her husband he I met Simon Pegg when I was working as a cashier at borders it was like a Tuesday in the afternoon and the place was empty he came up to my with some stationery and I started ringing him up the entire time I was thinking he looked so much like him but I didn't think it was him since I wasn't in the UK and as far as I knew he wasn't filming a movie in Chicago so it was a pretty quiet transaction after it was done and I was handing him his bag with his stuff I jokingly said has anyone told you that you look like the guy from Shaun of the Dead he replied I am the guy from Shaun of the Dead years ago like 20 years ago I went to see Adam Sandler's stand up at a small comedy club clearly I knew who he was because I got tickets to his show my date and I were running a smidge late and ran into a guy in the lobby a guy I used to work with so I was like hey Danny how are you doing what have you been up to he was like I'm good how are you I responded that I was good the running late for the show had to run and he said ok have a good night and walked off as my date and I walked into the clerk he said you know who that was it wasn't Danny it was Adam Sandler but gotta say he played the part of Danny well one of his better roles stood in front of Miranda Cosgrove in line for Space Mountain at Disneyland weirdest part of it was we were in the same car on the ride and nobody screamed or did anything during the ride it was completely silent me and my sister just looked at each other like wTF is going on three years back I was working at a Whataburger in Austin and internet personality Mia Khalifa walks in with five other people she and her friends ordered the largest meal they can and ate it in the lobby the whole time the back kitchen is getting overly excited looking back it was pretty weird to see her in person and is the only celebrity I have seen in person in the mid-90s I was the cab driver our service was like a cross between a limo and a taxi and we serviced some fancy resorts as I dropped off my passenger at a resort another guy asks if I'm a taxi and I say yes so he tells his friend their cab is here his friend got in the car and said this ain't no cab smells too good to be a cabinet unmistakeable Chris Rock voice he and his friend just bulleted with each other for the 15 minutes drive to a local nightclub there was a white kid trying to talk to cabdriver ahead of us in the parking lot and Chris Rock started imitating the kids like I need a ride yeah and drunk did I need a ride and I was trying really hard not to laugh out loud he wasn't nearly as famous yet at the time but I had seen his stand-up routines on Comedy Central and knew exactly who he was but didn't go fanboy on him ten out of ten would drive Chris Rock again [Applause]

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Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 20 2019