Tonyz
How do ya do? Pretty good, sure as you're born!
- Joined
- May 17, 2014
So does this story warrant its own thread? No almost certainly not. But I thought my fellow DIS fanatics would find it amusing.
I went to California Grill for dinner tonight with my brother for the first time, and before we sat down we wanted to check out the view on the balcony. While walking there I notice a guy in a booth near the door who’s impeccably dressed and realizes it’s Charles! Now I love Charles and would have been thrilled just to meet him... but as I turned my head to see who he was eating with I got a little... excited.
Now I’m gonna say something, I think I’m a fairly intelligent, cool, calm, and collective guy most of the time.
...but I squealed like a little girl when I saw Pete. I still can’t believe I did it! They both jumped out of their seat and everyone around them was wondering what this lunatic was doing. But I was just so excited, it’s like meeting your favorite actor or singer.
Anyways, my embarrassing entrance aside, I just want to say that they were two of the nicest guys to talk to. I just wanted to shake their hands and thank them... but we ended up talking for 5-10 minutes. I was even trying to find points in the conversation to leave because I didn’t want to take up more of their time but they kept engaging us in conversation. If it had been a 30 second encounter I would have been happy, but the fact that they took time out of their dinner to talk to a crazy stranger about a fairly wide range of things is just another testimate to how classy they are.
Meeting Charles was awesome, it was so nice to be able to voice to the guy how much I love his insights... but I’ve loved listening to Pete for years and to meet the guy and to see just how good and funny and “real” of a dude he is in person was incredible. I saw him on the way out and apologized for scaring him and he was so cool about it. The whole thing is a memory I’ll keep for a long time.
The meal was fantastic by the way.
I went to California Grill for dinner tonight with my brother for the first time, and before we sat down we wanted to check out the view on the balcony. While walking there I notice a guy in a booth near the door who’s impeccably dressed and realizes it’s Charles! Now I love Charles and would have been thrilled just to meet him... but as I turned my head to see who he was eating with I got a little... excited.
Now I’m gonna say something, I think I’m a fairly intelligent, cool, calm, and collective guy most of the time.
...but I squealed like a little girl when I saw Pete. I still can’t believe I did it! They both jumped out of their seat and everyone around them was wondering what this lunatic was doing. But I was just so excited, it’s like meeting your favorite actor or singer.
Anyways, my embarrassing entrance aside, I just want to say that they were two of the nicest guys to talk to. I just wanted to shake their hands and thank them... but we ended up talking for 5-10 minutes. I was even trying to find points in the conversation to leave because I didn’t want to take up more of their time but they kept engaging us in conversation. If it had been a 30 second encounter I would have been happy, but the fact that they took time out of their dinner to talk to a crazy stranger about a fairly wide range of things is just another testimate to how classy they are.
Meeting Charles was awesome, it was so nice to be able to voice to the guy how much I love his insights... but I’ve loved listening to Pete for years and to meet the guy and to see just how good and funny and “real” of a dude he is in person was incredible. I saw him on the way out and apologized for scaring him and he was so cool about it. The whole thing is a memory I’ll keep for a long time.
The meal was fantastic by the way.
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