Re: Ever met anyone famous?
I met Margaret Trudeau (then the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's wife) on a chair lift at the Grouse Mtn ski area in Vancouver B.C.<br /><br />I had no idea who she was at the time, but she was awfully cute, and as I was single and in college, of course I asked her out for a date. She very politely declined explaining that she was married, and that her husband "worked for the government"<br /><br />When I got off the lift, my friends who knew who she was explained it to me.<br /><br />I also knew Edgar Kaiser Jr fairly well, as a close friend in college was Kaiser's grandson, and we spent a fair amount of time at his compound on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands.<br /><br />I helped him catch his first salmon, as he heard us talking about going salmon fishing, and asked if he could go along. That next morning we came down to his dock he was getting his 90' Yacht ready to go, I told him whoa! You can't catch any fish in that thing, and that if he wanted to go we were going in the "Squirrel" an open 21' single banger wooden work boat.<br /><br />He reluctantly agreed after we explained we had sandwiches packed already, and 30 minutes out, he hooked and landed a 15lb salmon.<br /><br />To say he was thrilled would be a vast understatement. Anyway we were invited to the main house for dinner (seating for about 80, jacket and tie required) and we ate the salmon that nite, while listening to him recount every last detail of his adventure to us and his guests. <br /><br />It was fun! and he was a nice guy. We got into some spirited political discussions from time to time, but he was always my buddy after that!
