I have had a few brushes with fame when I was growing up. I was even in a movie as an extra when I was in high school. You can see me as a bright pink spot in a crowd a few times in the movie.
But my biggest brush with fame was meeting Elton Jon or should I say running into him.
Late one night when my friend and I were staying in a suite at the Ritz Carlton in Palm Desert for spring break, we decided to go down and swim in the pool at about 11pm. When we were done we were going back up to our room where bathrobes over our bathing suits, being incredibly silly. We were on the elevator which you had to have a key to make it go to our floor and we decided that it would be fun to race back to our room after the door opened, but someone had to grab the key before we could run off or we couldn't get into our suite. So my friend yells go when the door opens and I grab the key and took off. STep out of the elevator ran a few feet and plowed right into Elton.
I fell down and he helped me up at first I didn't know it was him and I just apologized for running into him. Then I looked up and he spoke. OH man I must have looked so funny, cuz I think he realized that I recognized him and was sort of in shock.
He said that it was no big deal, but to becareful cuz Jack Nicholson was in the hotel and he is a right cranky bastard.
He winked and walked off. We went back to our room and started jumping around and screaming.
We saw him the next day when the hotel put out hor dervous before dinner on our floor that you could go munch on. We went out there and when we were going to sit down he winked, nodded, and smiled at us. I swear we about melted.
He really is a sweet guy.