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Old 10-21-2003, 06:00 PM
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When I was in the 7th grade, my best friend and I were asked to present gifts on behalf of our junior high school's student council to George and Barbara Bush. This was in 1988 when he was VP and was running for pres. Our school was one if his campaign stops.

Next, when I was a freshman in high school, Montel Williams came to our school. This was before he got the talk show. He gave the top students in each class like $20 for good grades and the girl who was most likely going to become valedictorian (this program took place at the beginning of the school year) about $100 or so for her achievements. Then he started asking random questions to people in the audience and he called me and when I got my question right, he gave me $10.

Junior year, author Clifton Taulbert (Once Upon a Time When Were Colored) came to my school to promote his book. He is from my hometown and he singled me out as a very good writer and read some of my work from our literary magazine (I was the editor that year as well as asst. editor of the newspaper). This really gave me the push to pursue writing a book eventually. I'm working on that now.

I have also met the following people:

Grant Hill and Tamia
Kid Rock
Colleen Dixon (author)
Jason Richardson (basketball player-Golden State)
DL Hugley
Sugar Ray
Prince

I got to tell this story. This past summer, Hubby, Son and I were flying home from Mississippi after my family reunion. We flew out of Memphis and then switched planes in Chicago before returning to Saginaw. Now, sitting at O'Hare waiting for our plane, Hubby thought he saw Cedric the Entertainer. I look at him and I'm like YEAH RIGHT I told him that he just wanted see some Kappas since he's one. Hubby swore up and down that he saw Ced. I roll my eyes and tell him to take our son to the bathroom before we get on the plane. On the plane Hubby pointed out this man who looked so scruffy and bummy and wearing sunglasses and said that he thought it was Ced. Now we know that Ced is usually so fresh and so clean so I just gave Hubby this look again and settled in for the flight home. We get off the plane and while Hubby took Son to the bathroom again the scruffy man passes by me and says, "What up, Greek. You wearing that Delta shirt." I look the man in his eyes and it WAS Cedric the Entertainer. I almost fainted dead away at the airport but composed myself enough to get an autograph, introduce him to Hubby and Son, and tell him that my grandmomma and I had a grand old time laughing at him on Comic View and The Steve Harvey Show the night before. It turned out that he was doing a show at the casino. All the way home, Hubby was like I told you so, Nupes know other Nupes, blah, blah, blah. But I shut him up with who got the autograph though??

Sorry this was so long. I have lots of interesting cleb stories.
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