Famous People

Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?

Daily writing prompt

This one is tough. I think I have really wracked my brains over it for maybe five whole minutes. I don’t think I have ever really met anyone famous. I’ve never met anyone infamous either.

I went to an in-store show at Newbury Comics in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA on the day Throwing Muses released their Limbo album back in 1996. I got autographs from all three members. Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo, and Bernard Georges. Are they famous enough? I mean, they absolutely are to me but does the rest of society consider them famous?

When I was really little my father took me to an autograph signing with two members of the Boston Bruins. This is back in the mid-70’s. I seem to remember it being at a car show in the parking lot of the Osco Drug store in Tewksbury, MA but that can’t be true, can it? The two Bruins were Stan Jonathan and The Chief Johnny Bucyk. They were both household names in New England at the time, and The Chief probably still is. He’s a total freakin’ legend in these parts. He’s probably the most famous person I’ve met, even if I don’t really remember it at all.

My Uncle worked for The Boston Celtics. I shit you not when I say that legendary Celtics head coach and general manager Red Auerbach was the best man at their wedding. Really. Had I been there, that probably would have been what I wrote about today. I think I was too young to go though so I didn’t meet him. I don’t think my Uncle counts as famous, but it is really freakin’ impressive when he shows off his two Celtics NBA Championship rings (1984 and 1986).

I guess when it comes to meeting famous or infamous people I have lived a pretty uneventful life.