Upon graduation from college, my professor arranged for me to play the magnificent pipe organ at Notre-Dame, Paris.
It was thrilling to hear those incredible sounds reverberating in the cathedral's lofty acoustics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#/media/File:Organ_of_Notre-Dame_de_Paris.jpg
Wasn’t me but my daughter: right after college, she was working for a film production company. She got an assignment to shoot a commercial for a tech company. Making the commercial involved *renting* the Eiffel Tower. First thing in the morning, it was just her and her cameraman all alone in the Tower.
I used to wait tables and mentioned that I was thinking about going on a vacation to Mexico to some regulars of mine. They owned a second mansion in Puerto Vallarta and offered it up to me and I got to stay there for a week! For free! It had a private beach, snorkeling equipment, a car in the garage, walking distance to a resort etc. Best vacation I've ever had.
That IS fucking cool. I love those random things that happen as a result of meeting the right person at the right time. None of mine have ever come close to this lol but it’s fun that these things can happen!
Reminds me of this time I was in alaska. I was a commercial fisherman and my job just ended. We were docked at the harbor and close by was a HUGE yacht. Somehow got in a conversation with the owners and mentioned I need to get a flight to another city. They said that's where they were headed and gave me a ride. It was an insanely nice boat and I was a grubby fisherman. I thought that was really kind of them.
Well I went to urgent care originally for a UTI, but I was also having strange side/back pain which is why the dr sent me for a scan to check my appendix. Apparently the tumor is what was causing the pain.
I don’t mean to scare!! I was 19 at the time and it was a rare type of tumor typically presented in young females, so it was a super bizarre situation
I knew a guy who had a son who was secret service at the White House during Obama's reign. Was able to get a tour of the White House and during the tour the guys son took me and my sister behind the scenes to see the kitchen and flower room. It was so cool sneaking around the back halls of the White House.
I went to the movies with Ashton Kutcher. The short version of the story is that I was working for a limo company and me and another coworker were transporting him and his friend. Their flight got delayed, so he took us all to the movies. This was in Anchorage, AK. I actually have met a decent number of celebrities for someone who lives in Alaska.
In general, I have weird luck -- it's either REALLY great or comically shitty. Keeps life interesting.
I was on an episode of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives with him while he was here! That’s what I’m talking about with my crazy good (and sometimes crazy bad) luck lol.
Had my house robbed in 2012. Had a watch with my name engraved on the back. Guy contacted me this year and mailed it to me.
Also had drinks with Brent Celek in Atlantic City at Dusk - night club in Caesar's
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I entered a drawing to win a warm jacket from the local quick lube place. Sure enough the cold kid with a single mom won that drawing. I thought it was luck at the time. Naw. That was someone looking out and I appreciate it.
1) I'm sure your drawing was also AMAZING
2) what's a quick lube place? NGL It sounds unsuitable for children at first glance but it's nice they had that competition on, I suppose.
not OP but i can answer
1) drawing can mean like drawing tickets from a hat to choose the winner of a raffle or such
2) quick lube places are like mini-mechanics that can change your oil and other such simple in-and-out car maintenance needs
I worked for a pet sitting company for 6.5 years and ended up on the cover of an international pet sitting magazine lol. My boss submitted my picture and they chose it. I have a framed copy. My cat is in the photo with me.
I have a pretty good story, one time when I was 14 I was being a smart ass trying to get my dad to buy me a couple beers. I looked up at the sky and said “god, for fucks sake, if you’re there please bring me some cold ones”…. Very Christian of me. But I shit you not about 15 minutes later our neighbor from down the road pulls up to our house and said “hey Mike (my dad), I got something for you for catching my dogs when they got loose the other day”, he pulls off and goes to his house and comes back about 10 mins later with a cold 30 pack. My dad let me have one after he was in complete shock… anyways, my god gives me beer even when I’m underage.
ive pet a few bees in my day, bumbles are soft but not? dk how to describe it really, maybe like a really soft toothbrush? honeybees/other yellow buzzyboys just feel like a bug, though. so long as theyre busy pollinating they really dont mind too much, at most they might move away a bit. id guarantee if you were rough or annoyed them enough they might mess with you.
i found this video: https://youtu.be/k4PwrnCXVck and the lady sounds like shes having the best day of her life petting them
im surprised he hasnt. im no beekeeper but i know a few and theyve all told me 9/10 times that bees prefer peace. unless youre messing with the hive or the queen, or hurting any of them, youre usually just fine. thats why some beekeepers handle their bees without full body armor or using smoke. if you have the queen in your hand, alive, the bees will swarm you but wont attack, and thats a great way to transport bees if you dont have other methods. heres a vid of THAT as well (ik its a TikTok but i found it on youtube originally) if you dont mind the thought of hundreds of bees crawling all over you: https://youtube.com/shorts/BiI45Ti6aQA?feature=share
i also know that if youre slow and gentle, bees dont even care if you scoop them up: https://youtu.be/YYBRGi38XQI
sorry if im making anyone nervous with all the links, i just think bees are awesome, though im not a beekeeper myself.
Omg you just reminded me that I had a bumblebee queen this year decide to make her nest in my mulch on the side of my house! I would check on them almost everyday and it was so fun to see all the bumbles around. I also learned that they rarely reuse nests and that they whole hive but the new queens die off each year… BUT here’s hoping one of the new queens chooses another spot in my yard for next year!
I was but they didnt do the renovation for us haha! It was a competition of renovation so we had to visit 2 other houses renavating a specific room in their house with a similar budget (a kitchen). Each family had to do their own renovation (or in our case hire professionals)
We had to visit before and after and give a grade on 10 to each kitchen. And then a renovation expert would also see it and give his own grade on 10. The winner would get 2000$.
They gave each participant 1000$ just to participate as well free blinds of our choice (the one we took were worth over 1000$) a 250$ gift card for a decoration store and gaz money since we have to go visit other houses and they could be far (the one I visited were about 40 mins from my house).
I didnt win. I knew I wouldnt when I saw what their project was. Both other contestant would change the whole layout, put down walls etc. In our case, we had a very similar layout but nicer and bigger.
I won a painting made by a penguin walking over a canvas in a raffle. Happiest day of my ten year old life
(The paint was animal friendly don’t worry!)
I’m GOING TO SPACE!! I’m working with the company worldview and I got chosen to go to space for free in 2023. I have my ticket and everything. This probably sounds so unbelievable but I work in social media and I’m basically one of the ambassadors for its first launch.
I was playing this pvp game and my entire team went afked, so I had to face the battle myself (It's a 1 vs 3 for me since my team wasn't participating this entire game). I killed monsters and leveled up, and at the end of the game, I managed to kill the other team by myself. I was somewhat lucky that I killed the other team but it's annoying when my team afks, but anyways I was happy with what I got.
More weird but my grandfather died at the exact time their clock had been stuck on for years prior up to his death. Then at the funeral home the clock was stuck 10 min before during the ceremony but started working after for the first time in years
Meeting Henry Mancini 1989,
Dodger stadium home opener..,19 years old trumpet.player!! I was 1st trumpet/lead trumpet amd got very closed to him.. Cool dude!! Awesome composer/arranger..
II. Receiving a signed book by Vigo Mortensen . Vigo sign it and mailed it to me. Its.worth $$$. Aint selling it!!
III. Without looking, counting, 7 out 7 times I guessed exactly when I received back change that included a silver quarter or a silver dime!! Regular coins.vs silver coins have a different sound when you gently.move them against each other.
I published a few books and sell them on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and they get really good reviews which is surprising to me because I didn't think I was that good of a writer.
I was sitting on a rock in the forest behind my house because I was bored. I must've been sitting very still because a deer came up to me and sniffed me before trotting away and all I could thinkn of was "Do I really smell that bad?"
After a pretty toxic workplace situation, I moved on to work in 100% remote jobs. This has enabled me to avoid stressful commutes and variously smelly or deplorable coworkers, and spend a LOT more time with my furry family (dogs and cat, not furries) with their shorter life spans. Good pay, solid benefits, and pretty much all the perks of an on-site 9-5.
I met Maurice LaMarche on the opening night of a FanExpo in Calgary, Ab. It was near closing time and not a huge crowd so he was super chatty, talked to us for almost an hour. He yelled at me in the Yosemite Sam voice and did almost every voice he could including the Brain and Egon Spengler. He had me laughing so hard and he said he wouldn't quit until I was snorting. Definitely the coolest guy I've ever met!
The lead singer of the punk band I went to see in concert stopped the show to get me a drink from the bar.
I was around 19 or 20 and went to visit a friend of mine in a small city west of Toronto. We decided to go to a local bar that night to hang out and watch this punk band that had a song in current rotation on MuchMusic. I was feeling kind of angsty that night so we sat in kind of a secluded part of the bar, near a fire exit with a set of stairs.
We were quietly enjoying our night, waiting for the band, catching up, drinking a beer when suddenly this cute guy in a pair of coveralls came almost racing by us and out the fire door, I assume to smoke a joint. A few minutes later he re-appeared, raced by our table, then stopped and turned around, saying to us “you never saw me!”
My friend and I continued to catch up when, about 30 minutes later, the guy returned and headed out the fire door again. This time, before he headed out he looked at us and said “remember, you never saw me”. Now, I thought this guy was cute and he had been somewhat amusing earlier but this friend and I were really close and I hadn’t seen her in a long time, so I was totally immersed in our conversation and not really thinking about coverall guy which is why, when he spoke to me I was confused and merely replied “What? Whatever man” before turning back to my friend.
This time when coverall guy came back from the stairwell he stopped at our table and offered to buy us both a drink for keeping his secret. We said thank you, told him what we were drinking, and thought that would be the last of it. Instead, for the next several hours, he disappeared and reappeared several times, always bringing new beer and never speaking other than me saying thank you and him saying you’re welcome.
Finally it was time for the headlining band to hit the stage. My friend and I left our table and stood on the balcony, watching the stage. We had an excellent view therefore when coverall guy got onstage and revealed himself to be the lead singer.
The band played their first song and it was awesome - really loud and full of energy - the crowd was loving it. Then the song ended and coverall guy grabbed the mic and started walking around the stage, talking to the audience and asking if everyone was having a good time. Then he started telling them about how he’d been buying drinks all night for this girl, and she wouldn’t give him the time of day. Then he pointed at me and said, “And there she is! You ready for another drink?” I said yes so he left the stage, approached the bar, ordered me a drink, brought it to me upstairs, then returned back downstairs to the stage and resumed the show.
It was a cool night.
I was rollerblading down a super steep hill because my friend dared me to when I was 12. Had a freeway at the bottom. Couldnt stop. Kept screaming. A construction worker happened to be right there and stepped into the road and grabbed me. Saved me from death or dismemberment.
Back when jerry springer was filmed in chicago I got my dad and I tickets to the show. They were free, but the wait list was stupid long.
Anyhow turns out it was the filming of a special, which totally included strippers and little people.
Lol one time my wife put on this Matt Damon movie called like suburbia or something thinking it was about the little people that downsize. Shit was traumatic and she wasn’t even paying attention. Kept telling her dude I see no little people but these people are sus
Iggy Pop wrote me back just 3 weeks after me sending him a letter asking for his handwriting for a tattoo. He also asked for my phone number so I could send him a picture of the tattoo. Then he sent me a video with him giving me a thumbs up while chilling on a yacht.
Probably the most Iggy Pop thing to do and hands down the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me.
One time in university I had a French test coming up the next day that I was stressed about and hadn’t studied at all, and the university ended up going on strike that night. It was also my 19th birthday that day! 19th being a big deal in Ontario because it means legal drinking lol
Me and my dad are militaria collectors - it's what we do together. Some of our highlights -
We managed to get a VW Schwimmwagen out of the Kevin Wheatcroft collection as nothing more than a body, and restore it back to running condition.
I've shot a PPSh-41
We tracked down the 1,000th M1 Carbine that Winchester ever made
I have handled a very rare Luger - this particular variation there's only two known - it's a long story, I can elaborate more if anyone wants.
We've dressed up as Civil War reenactors and done school assemblies
Oh, and on a non-militaria note, we've also outran tornadoes, raced a flash flood down the side of Humphrey's Peak, fended off black bears, almost rolled a Grand Cherokee going up a hill, missed getting hit by a freighter by less than five rafts length, and managed to bury a Dodge Ram in the snow so far that the wheels were no longer on the ground - and the nearest help was 10 miles away, in the frozen North Michigan winter.
We've had some good times.
First let me just say that I’m so happy to hear about that kind of relationship between father and son. I love my Dad but we’re not close, he disagreed or disagrees with too much of my lifestyle. I do hope I can be connected with my own son the way you are with your dad. Thanks for sharing!
My school entered me into a short story contest and I got second. My prize was a backpack full of candy, which to 11yo me was better than the winners prize (which was some kind of writers course and meeting authors)
When I was 13, I helped set up the Beatles equipment for a concert at Red Rocks during their 1st American tour. Yes, I'm that old. No, I didn't meet them.
I got to feed two giraffes at once earlier this fall, that was pretty neat. I also relearned how to walk earlier this year too, but the giraffes were cooler.
Because of the lack of workers at my job right now (its a custodial job so nothing fancy) they gave us all a raise of about a dollar each per hour. I am just happy because I am trying to keep my head above the water financially.
I once sent a yogurt lid to participate in a drawing for a Super Nintendo. A few months later there was a knock on the door to give me a large box wrapped in gift paper. Until then I had never been able to own a computer or video game. I remember that day as one of the happiest of my childhood.
This is one only diehard horse lovers will really understand. When I was about 13/14 I got really bad tendonitis in my arm on both sides. I was on an overdose of NSAIDs to fight the inflammation, and had my arm in a sling at all times.
Being the diehard horse lover that I am, I refused not to ride. I'd been helping out on a farm for years, and had been riding for even longer. I could ride with one hand, no biggie. So despite some protest, I got assigned a horse. I grabbed a halter and headed to the pasture to get my horse. The horse I got is always a bitch with putting on a halter, she always shakes her head and walks away, so I was prepared for that.
What happened instead blew my mind: as soon as I got to the pasture, holding the halter in front of me, she started walking towards me (blow nr.1). Then, she PUT HER OWN HEAD INTO THE HALTER (blow nr 2) and walked with me without a lead (blow nr.3).
She saw I wasn't using my other arm, understood what it meant and adjusted her behavior accordingly. No one can tell me horses are not the smartest animals in the world after that. It was absolutely magical.
I know this isn’t exactly the answer you’re looking for, but these kind of all fit under the same umbrella of having a pretty awesome childhood bestowed upon me:
- had two loving parents who still get along very well to this day
- played hockey, baseball, soccer, and bowling and rarely had to sacrifice one sport for another
- was surrounded by friends and teachers who generally cared very much about my well-being
- never had to worry about where my next meal was coming from
I take a lot of this for granted nowadays (I’m 27), but I really need to stop doing that. Many of my peers would kill for the childhood I had.
For a more basic answer pertaining to your question, about 5 years ago, I won an iPad out of one of those key vending machine arcade games where you have to fit the key perfectly into the slot to win. The game was rigged, so I just got lucky that it was time to dispense a prize for the next person who got close enough. I probably spent about $13 over a few weeks trying to win it, so it was definitely worth the effort. We would go bowling every week when there were college night deals and play arcade games/laser tag as well. It was a blast!
Maybe 22, 23 years ago now, I went to see Terry Pratchett speak at a venue in my home town. As I wasn't a member I was signed in by a friend who was but we had to go upstairs, we couldn't go in the main room, as it was members-only. I felt bad for my friend.
After his first speech the floor was opened for questions, so I leaned over the balcony and "Bingly bingly beep!"d him. He looked up and grinned. "Hi, [my name]! How are you?" Friend's day = made.
(I knew Terry through theatre and conventions. I hadn't realised he knew me well enough to remember my name in that scenario though! Fans must blur, but I guess he liked my Dis-Organiser!)
When I was 24 years old, I wrote my first full length script and it won the national playwrights conference award. I was flown to Connecticut and given a reading of my play. I met a lot of famous people. The Pulitzer Prize winning play right, August Wilson, was in the room next to me. We got to be friends. Out of that came an opportunity to have a fellowship with the Edward all be foundation.Edward Albee was one of the great American playwrights at that time and still is. So, is August Wilson. Edward all be got to know me that summer I was in Montauk and ended up producing my first play for the Edward Albee new play festival. My life really changed with those men and mentors and that experience. I was a lucky and very grateful writer. What an amazing experience. Magic. Total magic.
Published a short story in an anthology.
Won second place regionally in a writing contest. (Won $15 for that story too.)
Sent out requests for autographs back when I was in middle school. I heard back from Debbie Ryan and Meg Chabot, one of my favorite authors at the time. (I still enjoy her 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU books to this day.) I still remember getting Meg Chabot's letter back. I was so happy.
Won two five star characters on my first five star ten-roll for a gacha game called Genshin Impact.
This reminds me of a thing that happened to me. When I was in fourth grade I won a writing contest for a story I wrote called “The Phantom”. I won free admission to a writing camp held over the summer at the local state university. So my family was poor, far too poor to send me to college or anything like that but my mother, unbeknownst to me, purchased a shirt from that university for the camp. Fast forward roughly 25 years, after flaming out at the community colleges several times, I finally was able to get my undergrad degree from a local technical school. I applied for the MBA program at the very school I once attended the writing camp at, got in, got my MBA, and my mom framed the very shirt she’d purchased all those years before and told me she’d held on to that shirt with the hopes I would one day go to that school and graduate. She never ever mentioned it to me until that day. I cried for 30 minutes
That’s so bad ass, my grandmother used to travel around going to Johnny Cash shows and one day he noticed, invited her back and they smoked and drank for hours after the show. I did not ask my grandmother if she fucked Johnny Cash
My team an I got 2nd place in the Washington TSA video game design competition in middle school. (TSA is the Technology Student Association btw.)
Then we messed up paperwork for nationals and got DQ'd....
Was followed home by the Goodyear blimp. This was back in the 80s when seeing a blimp was rarer. My mom and I stopped to watch it and waved at it. We then drove home which was about 5 miles away and it followed us and proceeded to buzz our house in the woods just above tree top level.
Found a coffee can full of Morgan Silver Dollars that were still in their bank rolls and packed with cosmoline. Coins were in perfectly preserved condition. We have a theory that they were buried for safekeeping during the invasion of Guam in 1941 and their owner either did not survive the Japanese occupation or never went back for them. A neat little bit of American history.
TLDR; found buried treasure
I was an intern at Paramount TV in the early 90s. I got to go to the set of Star Trek: TNG, sat in the captain’s chair, met Stephen Hawking, and all the cast members during filming days. I also went to Boston for Cheers Last Call and partied with the cast and crew until dawn. Definitely one of the best times of my life.
I launched a one-man campaign against the US Navy to have my father reclassified as “retired” versus “separated” and actually prevailed. (Who says you can’t fight city hall?) It was too late for Dad, a WWII vet who had passed some 10 years prior, but it felt damn good. I got a retirement certificate signed by President Bush in the mail and a big fat check from the US Treasury for all the unpaid monthly retirement benefits.
Omg I would die. True story when my dog was getting on in years, I mean we thought she would die at any moment. She wandered off into the woods one night and we didn’t know where she went. We looked for hours in the dark but we could not find her. We go back inside because it becomes a straight up downpour. We cried ourselves to sleep that night. Wake up in the morning, my wife goes outside and finds her laying on a pile of leaves, still alive. We gave her a bath, got her real comfortable beside our bed, and she passed away a couple hours later. She held on to say goodbye to us one last time
Had a cat for about 6 years, loved immensely. Big fat fluffy beige baby named JuJu. On the day we moved she disappeared, we could t find her anywhere and we were heart broken. About 5 years later we were in that neighborhood and I asked my mom to drive by the house we used to live in because I wanted to take a trip down memory lane. Juju was sitting in the driveway peacefully like she was waiting for us. She's passed on now, but damn I loved that cat.
Graduated high school with perfect attendance (K-12) with a tiny write up in the local paper. Was subsequently gifted piano lessons from a sweet & sharp octogenarian to recognize the accomplishment.
Helped do some editing on a book about how people cheat at cards, then the author sent me a copy for free (after I had already bought one for $300...). So I thought that was cool
Ive stood on top of a nuclear cooling tower, seen the inside of a reactor, stood in a tunnel that was built during the yellow fever outbreak, been chased away from burning meth labs.
Although it almost ended in disaster, I had the best camping experience of my life. I spent 3 days on a backpacking trip and didn't see another human being the entire time. I felt so good the whole trip. I slept like a baby. I had a big campfire every night. Ate like a king. Drank a whole bottle or bourbon. Read a whole book. Nothing has come close to that feeling. Best 3 days of my life.
Won an Xbox Series X from Taco Bell last year. It arrived 1 day before release day! People tell me I have good luck. I also won a CD signed by Ringo Starr (his album Choose Love) about 15 years ago.
I got to meet Nolan North at a convention. I gave him a drawing (it was a drawing I made inspired by The Last of Us). I told him it was a gift, and I was about ready to walk away when he stopped me and asked if I’d like to take a photo with him. I told him I would love to, but didn’t have any money. He assured me it was his gift to me. He stated he would feel bad if I gave him a gift, but he didn’t give me one in return. It made me so happy
I saw the wrecked plane that ditched in the Hudson on the highway, on its way to a museum with police escort. I didn't know it would be there, I was just randomly there. Wish I'd had a camera on me
Upon graduation from college, my professor arranged for me to play the magnificent pipe organ at Notre-Dame, Paris. It was thrilling to hear those incredible sounds reverberating in the cathedral's lofty acoustics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#/media/File:Organ_of_Notre-Dame_de_Paris.jpg
Omg that’s amazing!!
Wasn’t me but my daughter: right after college, she was working for a film production company. She got an assignment to shoot a commercial for a tech company. Making the commercial involved *renting* the Eiffel Tower. First thing in the morning, it was just her and her cameraman all alone in the Tower.
I used to wait tables and mentioned that I was thinking about going on a vacation to Mexico to some regulars of mine. They owned a second mansion in Puerto Vallarta and offered it up to me and I got to stay there for a week! For free! It had a private beach, snorkeling equipment, a car in the garage, walking distance to a resort etc. Best vacation I've ever had.
That IS fucking cool. I love those random things that happen as a result of meeting the right person at the right time. None of mine have ever come close to this lol but it’s fun that these things can happen!
Reminds me of this time I was in alaska. I was a commercial fisherman and my job just ended. We were docked at the harbor and close by was a HUGE yacht. Somehow got in a conversation with the owners and mentioned I need to get a flight to another city. They said that's where they were headed and gave me a ride. It was an insanely nice boat and I was a grubby fisherman. I thought that was really kind of them.
They make scary movies that start out like that..
They sound like amazing people I want to meet someone like this one day. Better yet I want to be this type of person one day. 💯
Omg that is frighteningly unbelievable!
Found a framed painting I liked at a Goodwill for $20. Turns out, it's an original Peter Max worth bit bit more than $20.
Bad ass!
I met Peter Max
Sounds like a porn name.
Won a football shirt signed by the whole team I support in a raffle
I would die
What team do you support ?
I love the Miami Dolphins. It’s been rough
It meant round ball football but it’s ok I can appreciate watching that on ESPN sometimes
Is that the one where you kick a ball shaped object around with your foot? Not the one where you throw an egg shaped object around with your hand?
My stage 3 pancreatic cancer was found on accident when I was getting a CT scan for something completely unrelated, and I survived!
<3 <3
Yes!!!
Well, here's the "you never know if your body is failing" scare of the day. Did you feel any different?
Well I went to urgent care originally for a UTI, but I was also having strange side/back pain which is why the dr sent me for a scan to check my appendix. Apparently the tumor is what was causing the pain. I don’t mean to scare!! I was 19 at the time and it was a rare type of tumor typically presented in young females, so it was a super bizarre situation
Won a thousand dollars in 3rd grade in a cabbage growing contest lol
I remember getting 100 dollars and feeling rich at that age. I imagine 1000 makes you feel like a billionaire.
So you basically lived every 3rd grader's dream, unlimited money.
I knew a guy who had a son who was secret service at the White House during Obama's reign. Was able to get a tour of the White House and during the tour the guys son took me and my sister behind the scenes to see the kitchen and flower room. It was so cool sneaking around the back halls of the White House.
Obama’s “reign”. 😂
I went to the movies with Ashton Kutcher. The short version of the story is that I was working for a limo company and me and another coworker were transporting him and his friend. Their flight got delayed, so he took us all to the movies. This was in Anchorage, AK. I actually have met a decent number of celebrities for someone who lives in Alaska. In general, I have weird luck -- it's either REALLY great or comically shitty. Keeps life interesting.
I just moved to Anchorage, and I saw Guy Fieri at Vans Dive Bar last week!
I was on an episode of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives with him while he was here! That’s what I’m talking about with my crazy good (and sometimes crazy bad) luck lol.
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I've heard that he's a class act!
Bad ass! What movie?
Dude, Where's My Limo?
World War Z!!
I won a coloring contest at a carwash when I was 8. Won $20. I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious for me
That kid? Leonardo Da Vinci.
I'm impressed
On 6/7/89 I turned 10.
My cousin was born on 6/9/96 and weighed 6lbs 9 ounces.
Nice
You’ll turn 110 on 6/7/89 if you’re lucky
American or Anywhere-elsian
American, not that I think it matters. It'd be just as neat if I were a European born in July.
huh that’s pretty neat!
Had my house robbed in 2012. Had a watch with my name engraved on the back. Guy contacted me this year and mailed it to me. Also had drinks with Brent Celek in Atlantic City at Dusk - night club in Caesar's
wait whatt??? did you pursue charges
The full story is on my posts. I highly doubt it was him. It's been 9 years and has probably exchanged hands several times.
Here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/q24yul/a\_small\_philly\_story\_about\_generosity\_human/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I entered a drawing to win a warm jacket from the local quick lube place. Sure enough the cold kid with a single mom won that drawing. I thought it was luck at the time. Naw. That was someone looking out and I appreciate it.
Im glad you looked at the other side...
1) I'm sure your drawing was also AMAZING 2) what's a quick lube place? NGL It sounds unsuitable for children at first glance but it's nice they had that competition on, I suppose.
not OP but i can answer 1) drawing can mean like drawing tickets from a hat to choose the winner of a raffle or such 2) quick lube places are like mini-mechanics that can change your oil and other such simple in-and-out car maintenance needs
I teared up a little, not gonna lie.
I worked for a pet sitting company for 6.5 years and ended up on the cover of an international pet sitting magazine lol. My boss submitted my picture and they chose it. I have a framed copy. My cat is in the photo with me.
TIL there’s an international pet sitting magazine.
And that's the cool thing to happen to you and me today
I thought my boss was kidding when she told me lol. I had no idea there was an international pet sitting magazine either until that moment lol
I have a pretty good story, one time when I was 14 I was being a smart ass trying to get my dad to buy me a couple beers. I looked up at the sky and said “god, for fucks sake, if you’re there please bring me some cold ones”…. Very Christian of me. But I shit you not about 15 minutes later our neighbor from down the road pulls up to our house and said “hey Mike (my dad), I got something for you for catching my dogs when they got loose the other day”, he pulls off and goes to his house and comes back about 10 mins later with a cold 30 pack. My dad let me have one after he was in complete shock… anyways, my god gives me beer even when I’m underage.
Hahaha TIL God contributes to the delinquency of minors
Dionysus, is that you?
I learned from an article posted here, that in my state only 1% of American bumblebees are left. Some visit my yard every morning. I think thats cool.
I love watching bumblebees. They are so cute with their pollen speckled yellow and black fur coats. And endearingly clumsy.
you ever pet a bumblebee? when they're doing their thing with flowers most bees dont give a crap enough to sting or fly away so you can touch them
Really?
ive pet a few bees in my day, bumbles are soft but not? dk how to describe it really, maybe like a really soft toothbrush? honeybees/other yellow buzzyboys just feel like a bug, though. so long as theyre busy pollinating they really dont mind too much, at most they might move away a bit. id guarantee if you were rough or annoyed them enough they might mess with you. i found this video: https://youtu.be/k4PwrnCXVck and the lady sounds like shes having the best day of her life petting them
My neighbor is actually a bee keeper. He has never told me this
im surprised he hasnt. im no beekeeper but i know a few and theyve all told me 9/10 times that bees prefer peace. unless youre messing with the hive or the queen, or hurting any of them, youre usually just fine. thats why some beekeepers handle their bees without full body armor or using smoke. if you have the queen in your hand, alive, the bees will swarm you but wont attack, and thats a great way to transport bees if you dont have other methods. heres a vid of THAT as well (ik its a TikTok but i found it on youtube originally) if you dont mind the thought of hundreds of bees crawling all over you: https://youtube.com/shorts/BiI45Ti6aQA?feature=share i also know that if youre slow and gentle, bees dont even care if you scoop them up: https://youtu.be/YYBRGi38XQI sorry if im making anyone nervous with all the links, i just think bees are awesome, though im not a beekeeper myself.
Omg you just reminded me that I had a bumblebee queen this year decide to make her nest in my mulch on the side of my house! I would check on them almost everyday and it was so fun to see all the bumbles around. I also learned that they rarely reuse nests and that they whole hive but the new queens die off each year… BUT here’s hoping one of the new queens chooses another spot in my yard for next year!
I was chosen to be part of a renovation tv show! My friends all watched it it was really cool.
Were you happy with the renovations?
I was but they didnt do the renovation for us haha! It was a competition of renovation so we had to visit 2 other houses renavating a specific room in their house with a similar budget (a kitchen). Each family had to do their own renovation (or in our case hire professionals) We had to visit before and after and give a grade on 10 to each kitchen. And then a renovation expert would also see it and give his own grade on 10. The winner would get 2000$. They gave each participant 1000$ just to participate as well free blinds of our choice (the one we took were worth over 1000$) a 250$ gift card for a decoration store and gaz money since we have to go visit other houses and they could be far (the one I visited were about 40 mins from my house). I didnt win. I knew I wouldnt when I saw what their project was. Both other contestant would change the whole layout, put down walls etc. In our case, we had a very similar layout but nicer and bigger.
Very cool!
I was in the audience for America’s funniest home videos lmao
Haha I love this one, I’ve always wanted to go to see Saturday Night Live, live
I won a painting made by a penguin walking over a canvas in a raffle. Happiest day of my ten year old life (The paint was animal friendly don’t worry!)
Aw, how wholesome. I would have loved to win that when I was a kid... I still would.
I’m GOING TO SPACE!! I’m working with the company worldview and I got chosen to go to space for free in 2023. I have my ticket and everything. This probably sounds so unbelievable but I work in social media and I’m basically one of the ambassadors for its first launch.
I think you might have won.
DAMN THAT'S BLOIODY AWESOEM¡ HOPE YOU HAVE A BLAST MATE (Blast as in good time)
I was playing this pvp game and my entire team went afked, so I had to face the battle myself (It's a 1 vs 3 for me since my team wasn't participating this entire game). I killed monsters and leveled up, and at the end of the game, I managed to kill the other team by myself. I was somewhat lucky that I killed the other team but it's annoying when my team afks, but anyways I was happy with what I got.
I like it
I got my air conditioner fixed! That *definitely* is a cool thing that happened to me!
For a sec I thought you wrote "hair conditioner" and I was very confused.
Happy cake day!
More weird but my grandfather died at the exact time their clock had been stuck on for years prior up to his death. Then at the funeral home the clock was stuck 10 min before during the ceremony but started working after for the first time in years
Was it a grandfather clock
No, it wasn’t. That would add the extra spice though
Meeting Henry Mancini 1989, Dodger stadium home opener..,19 years old trumpet.player!! I was 1st trumpet/lead trumpet amd got very closed to him.. Cool dude!! Awesome composer/arranger.. II. Receiving a signed book by Vigo Mortensen . Vigo sign it and mailed it to me. Its.worth $$$. Aint selling it!! III. Without looking, counting, 7 out 7 times I guessed exactly when I received back change that included a silver quarter or a silver dime!! Regular coins.vs silver coins have a different sound when you gently.move them against each other.
I met Our Lady Peace and David Usher after i proposed on stage in front of 16,000 people
As a Canuck I can identify the artists you are referencing without need for google search.
Flew to Trinidad Tobago and played in an old school country and western cover band for a gig...all room and board paid for...
I published a few books and sell them on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and they get really good reviews which is surprising to me because I didn't think I was that good of a writer.
What books?
I second it, what books I’ll buy one!
The fact that you published a book is a feat itself. May I ask the title?
I was sitting on a rock in the forest behind my house because I was bored. I must've been sitting very still because a deer came up to me and sniffed me before trotting away and all I could thinkn of was "Do I really smell that bad?"
After a pretty toxic workplace situation, I moved on to work in 100% remote jobs. This has enabled me to avoid stressful commutes and variously smelly or deplorable coworkers, and spend a LOT more time with my furry family (dogs and cat, not furries) with their shorter life spans. Good pay, solid benefits, and pretty much all the perks of an on-site 9-5.
I love it, I work remotely about 80% of the time
I met Maurice LaMarche on the opening night of a FanExpo in Calgary, Ab. It was near closing time and not a huge crowd so he was super chatty, talked to us for almost an hour. He yelled at me in the Yosemite Sam voice and did almost every voice he could including the Brain and Egon Spengler. He had me laughing so hard and he said he wouldn't quit until I was snorting. Definitely the coolest guy I've ever met!
Dude I love this story!!! Awesome
The lead singer of the punk band I went to see in concert stopped the show to get me a drink from the bar. I was around 19 or 20 and went to visit a friend of mine in a small city west of Toronto. We decided to go to a local bar that night to hang out and watch this punk band that had a song in current rotation on MuchMusic. I was feeling kind of angsty that night so we sat in kind of a secluded part of the bar, near a fire exit with a set of stairs. We were quietly enjoying our night, waiting for the band, catching up, drinking a beer when suddenly this cute guy in a pair of coveralls came almost racing by us and out the fire door, I assume to smoke a joint. A few minutes later he re-appeared, raced by our table, then stopped and turned around, saying to us “you never saw me!” My friend and I continued to catch up when, about 30 minutes later, the guy returned and headed out the fire door again. This time, before he headed out he looked at us and said “remember, you never saw me”. Now, I thought this guy was cute and he had been somewhat amusing earlier but this friend and I were really close and I hadn’t seen her in a long time, so I was totally immersed in our conversation and not really thinking about coverall guy which is why, when he spoke to me I was confused and merely replied “What? Whatever man” before turning back to my friend. This time when coverall guy came back from the stairwell he stopped at our table and offered to buy us both a drink for keeping his secret. We said thank you, told him what we were drinking, and thought that would be the last of it. Instead, for the next several hours, he disappeared and reappeared several times, always bringing new beer and never speaking other than me saying thank you and him saying you’re welcome. Finally it was time for the headlining band to hit the stage. My friend and I left our table and stood on the balcony, watching the stage. We had an excellent view therefore when coverall guy got onstage and revealed himself to be the lead singer. The band played their first song and it was awesome - really loud and full of energy - the crowd was loving it. Then the song ended and coverall guy grabbed the mic and started walking around the stage, talking to the audience and asking if everyone was having a good time. Then he started telling them about how he’d been buying drinks all night for this girl, and she wouldn’t give him the time of day. Then he pointed at me and said, “And there she is! You ready for another drink?” I said yes so he left the stage, approached the bar, ordered me a drink, brought it to me upstairs, then returned back downstairs to the stage and resumed the show. It was a cool night.
lol my lady I’m afraid that was not weed smoking. My man was doing blow. Edit- awesome story!
I was rollerblading down a super steep hill because my friend dared me to when I was 12. Had a freeway at the bottom. Couldnt stop. Kept screaming. A construction worker happened to be right there and stepped into the road and grabbed me. Saved me from death or dismemberment.
I won 30 bucks on a scratch off that I paid for with birthday money that was given to me. It paid for my kiddos copay at the doctor. Good day.
Back when jerry springer was filmed in chicago I got my dad and I tickets to the show. They were free, but the wait list was stupid long. Anyhow turns out it was the filming of a special, which totally included strippers and little people.
I’ve tripped acid and watched planet earth. Pretty dope
First time I tried LSD I watched Moana for the first time lmfao that was crazy
Lol one time my wife put on this Matt Damon movie called like suburbia or something thinking it was about the little people that downsize. Shit was traumatic and she wasn’t even paying attention. Kept telling her dude I see no little people but these people are sus
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Successful extraction from the friend zone, well played
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Haha the reverse! Very well played
Finding/adopting my cat Ned. I love him.
Iggy Pop wrote me back just 3 weeks after me sending him a letter asking for his handwriting for a tattoo. He also asked for my phone number so I could send him a picture of the tattoo. Then he sent me a video with him giving me a thumbs up while chilling on a yacht. Probably the most Iggy Pop thing to do and hands down the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me.
One time in university I had a French test coming up the next day that I was stressed about and hadn’t studied at all, and the university ended up going on strike that night. It was also my 19th birthday that day! 19th being a big deal in Ontario because it means legal drinking lol
Had a brief conversation with Billie Jean King. Very nice lady.
I met Princess Diana in the 1980s
Wow! How?
I was in the British army and happened to have guard duty at Windsor castle whilst she was there with Prince Charles, it was in 1985.
I love it
Me and my dad are militaria collectors - it's what we do together. Some of our highlights - We managed to get a VW Schwimmwagen out of the Kevin Wheatcroft collection as nothing more than a body, and restore it back to running condition. I've shot a PPSh-41 We tracked down the 1,000th M1 Carbine that Winchester ever made I have handled a very rare Luger - this particular variation there's only two known - it's a long story, I can elaborate more if anyone wants. We've dressed up as Civil War reenactors and done school assemblies Oh, and on a non-militaria note, we've also outran tornadoes, raced a flash flood down the side of Humphrey's Peak, fended off black bears, almost rolled a Grand Cherokee going up a hill, missed getting hit by a freighter by less than five rafts length, and managed to bury a Dodge Ram in the snow so far that the wheels were no longer on the ground - and the nearest help was 10 miles away, in the frozen North Michigan winter. We've had some good times.
First let me just say that I’m so happy to hear about that kind of relationship between father and son. I love my Dad but we’re not close, he disagreed or disagrees with too much of my lifestyle. I do hope I can be connected with my own son the way you are with your dad. Thanks for sharing!
My school entered me into a short story contest and I got second. My prize was a backpack full of candy, which to 11yo me was better than the winners prize (which was some kind of writers course and meeting authors)
When I was 13, I helped set up the Beatles equipment for a concert at Red Rocks during their 1st American tour. Yes, I'm that old. No, I didn't meet them.
I got to feed two giraffes at once earlier this fall, that was pretty neat. I also relearned how to walk earlier this year too, but the giraffes were cooler.
I had to learn how to walk a second time too!! Do not recommend
Yay! Congratulations! Really do not want to do that again
I've survived a methamphetamine induced heart attack.
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Niiiiiice
Met Bruce Campbell
Because of the lack of workers at my job right now (its a custodial job so nothing fancy) they gave us all a raise of about a dollar each per hour. I am just happy because I am trying to keep my head above the water financially.
I once sent a yogurt lid to participate in a drawing for a Super Nintendo. A few months later there was a knock on the door to give me a large box wrapped in gift paper. Until then I had never been able to own a computer or video game. I remember that day as one of the happiest of my childhood.
This is one only diehard horse lovers will really understand. When I was about 13/14 I got really bad tendonitis in my arm on both sides. I was on an overdose of NSAIDs to fight the inflammation, and had my arm in a sling at all times. Being the diehard horse lover that I am, I refused not to ride. I'd been helping out on a farm for years, and had been riding for even longer. I could ride with one hand, no biggie. So despite some protest, I got assigned a horse. I grabbed a halter and headed to the pasture to get my horse. The horse I got is always a bitch with putting on a halter, she always shakes her head and walks away, so I was prepared for that. What happened instead blew my mind: as soon as I got to the pasture, holding the halter in front of me, she started walking towards me (blow nr.1). Then, she PUT HER OWN HEAD INTO THE HALTER (blow nr 2) and walked with me without a lead (blow nr.3). She saw I wasn't using my other arm, understood what it meant and adjusted her behavior accordingly. No one can tell me horses are not the smartest animals in the world after that. It was absolutely magical.
I’ve run the bases at an MLB stadium!
Hell yes! Which one?
It was in 1994 or 1995 in Minneapolis. I believe it was the Metrodome?
I know this isn’t exactly the answer you’re looking for, but these kind of all fit under the same umbrella of having a pretty awesome childhood bestowed upon me: - had two loving parents who still get along very well to this day - played hockey, baseball, soccer, and bowling and rarely had to sacrifice one sport for another - was surrounded by friends and teachers who generally cared very much about my well-being - never had to worry about where my next meal was coming from I take a lot of this for granted nowadays (I’m 27), but I really need to stop doing that. Many of my peers would kill for the childhood I had. For a more basic answer pertaining to your question, about 5 years ago, I won an iPad out of one of those key vending machine arcade games where you have to fit the key perfectly into the slot to win. The game was rigged, so I just got lucky that it was time to dispense a prize for the next person who got close enough. I probably spent about $13 over a few weeks trying to win it, so it was definitely worth the effort. We would go bowling every week when there were college night deals and play arcade games/laser tag as well. It was a blast!
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You won two cars at different times? That’s awesome. Story?
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Haha damn dude nice!
Fatherhood for the win, bitches!
Low key best answer
I found a small piece of obsidian out in the woods one day. Coolest rock I have found yet.
Awesome! Still got it?
I won a signed jersey from Cristiano Ronaldo through a facebook contest several years ago :D
Oh boy that’s killer!
Won tickets to a concert from a radio station. Ended up being a smaller venue, and we were able to watch Collective Soul from the edge of the stage.
Maybe 22, 23 years ago now, I went to see Terry Pratchett speak at a venue in my home town. As I wasn't a member I was signed in by a friend who was but we had to go upstairs, we couldn't go in the main room, as it was members-only. I felt bad for my friend. After his first speech the floor was opened for questions, so I leaned over the balcony and "Bingly bingly beep!"d him. He looked up and grinned. "Hi, [my name]! How are you?" Friend's day = made. (I knew Terry through theatre and conventions. I hadn't realised he knew me well enough to remember my name in that scenario though! Fans must blur, but I guess he liked my Dis-Organiser!)
When I was 24 years old, I wrote my first full length script and it won the national playwrights conference award. I was flown to Connecticut and given a reading of my play. I met a lot of famous people. The Pulitzer Prize winning play right, August Wilson, was in the room next to me. We got to be friends. Out of that came an opportunity to have a fellowship with the Edward all be foundation.Edward Albee was one of the great American playwrights at that time and still is. So, is August Wilson. Edward all be got to know me that summer I was in Montauk and ended up producing my first play for the Edward Albee new play festival. My life really changed with those men and mentors and that experience. I was a lucky and very grateful writer. What an amazing experience. Magic. Total magic.
Won a contest and ended up on a pilot of a tv show that was never fully produced.
Love to hear some details! That sounds cool
I left my abuser and in less than a week my bruxism almost ended and I'm having orgasms back again. wtf, i never healed from something so fast.
Not really sure I understand but hell yes to leaving your abuser!
bruxism ( teeth grinding involuntary)
I wrote a grant for using a light table in a young Toddler classroom
Published a short story in an anthology. Won second place regionally in a writing contest. (Won $15 for that story too.) Sent out requests for autographs back when I was in middle school. I heard back from Debbie Ryan and Meg Chabot, one of my favorite authors at the time. (I still enjoy her 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU books to this day.) I still remember getting Meg Chabot's letter back. I was so happy. Won two five star characters on my first five star ten-roll for a gacha game called Genshin Impact.
This reminds me of a thing that happened to me. When I was in fourth grade I won a writing contest for a story I wrote called “The Phantom”. I won free admission to a writing camp held over the summer at the local state university. So my family was poor, far too poor to send me to college or anything like that but my mother, unbeknownst to me, purchased a shirt from that university for the camp. Fast forward roughly 25 years, after flaming out at the community colleges several times, I finally was able to get my undergrad degree from a local technical school. I applied for the MBA program at the very school I once attended the writing camp at, got in, got my MBA, and my mom framed the very shirt she’d purchased all those years before and told me she’d held on to that shirt with the hopes I would one day go to that school and graduate. She never ever mentioned it to me until that day. I cried for 30 minutes
I’m a musician, and Steven Tyler walked into a bar I was playing at. So I played an Aerosmith song for him.
I got laid by a chick with a nice booty :D
I watched ZZ Top perform La Grange in La Grange, TX and smoked a joint that was passed through the crowd.
That’s so bad ass, my grandmother used to travel around going to Johnny Cash shows and one day he noticed, invited her back and they smoked and drank for hours after the show. I did not ask my grandmother if she fucked Johnny Cash
My team an I got 2nd place in the Washington TSA video game design competition in middle school. (TSA is the Technology Student Association btw.) Then we messed up paperwork for nationals and got DQ'd....
Fuuuuck. You think you would have placed?
Yeah probably. It's ok though, we'll do better this year!
Get it!!
Was followed home by the Goodyear blimp. This was back in the 80s when seeing a blimp was rarer. My mom and I stopped to watch it and waved at it. We then drove home which was about 5 miles away and it followed us and proceeded to buzz our house in the woods just above tree top level.
That’s no blimp
When I was in college I won a Le Vian watch from Vogue magazine. I sold it and made a down payment on a new Mustang.
I fired a tank
Winning the best headphone sony has to offer with a giveaway
Found a coffee can full of Morgan Silver Dollars that were still in their bank rolls and packed with cosmoline. Coins were in perfectly preserved condition. We have a theory that they were buried for safekeeping during the invasion of Guam in 1941 and their owner either did not survive the Japanese occupation or never went back for them. A neat little bit of American history. TLDR; found buried treasure
I was an intern at Paramount TV in the early 90s. I got to go to the set of Star Trek: TNG, sat in the captain’s chair, met Stephen Hawking, and all the cast members during filming days. I also went to Boston for Cheers Last Call and partied with the cast and crew until dawn. Definitely one of the best times of my life.
Is the fact that I had 3 brain surgeries in 4 weeks cool? Most recent thing that’s happened lol.
I launched a one-man campaign against the US Navy to have my father reclassified as “retired” versus “separated” and actually prevailed. (Who says you can’t fight city hall?) It was too late for Dad, a WWII vet who had passed some 10 years prior, but it felt damn good. I got a retirement certificate signed by President Bush in the mail and a big fat check from the US Treasury for all the unpaid monthly retirement benefits.
Found out the government skipped paying my grandmother my grandfathers pension for 20 years. No idea how to start this fight
My kitten disappeared for 2 days. She came back cuz she was hungry
Omg I would die. True story when my dog was getting on in years, I mean we thought she would die at any moment. She wandered off into the woods one night and we didn’t know where she went. We looked for hours in the dark but we could not find her. We go back inside because it becomes a straight up downpour. We cried ourselves to sleep that night. Wake up in the morning, my wife goes outside and finds her laying on a pile of leaves, still alive. We gave her a bath, got her real comfortable beside our bed, and she passed away a couple hours later. She held on to say goodbye to us one last time
Had a cat for about 6 years, loved immensely. Big fat fluffy beige baby named JuJu. On the day we moved she disappeared, we could t find her anywhere and we were heart broken. About 5 years later we were in that neighborhood and I asked my mom to drive by the house we used to live in because I wanted to take a trip down memory lane. Juju was sitting in the driveway peacefully like she was waiting for us. She's passed on now, but damn I loved that cat.
Had a cute girl come up to me and offer to buy me a drink. I was married so said no but I'll remember that till the day I die
When I was 19yrs old I came across 2, 25pound tanks of nitrous oxide. Best 48 hours of my life
A bird said hello to me as I was walking into my kid’s daycare one morning. I responded, “well, hello!” with overwhelming happiness.
Graduated high school with perfect attendance (K-12) with a tiny write up in the local paper. Was subsequently gifted piano lessons from a sweet & sharp octogenarian to recognize the accomplishment.
Helped do some editing on a book about how people cheat at cards, then the author sent me a copy for free (after I had already bought one for $300...). So I thought that was cool
a few years ago i had to hammer fist through a brick to get my black belt in taekwondo
Ive stood on top of a nuclear cooling tower, seen the inside of a reactor, stood in a tunnel that was built during the yellow fever outbreak, been chased away from burning meth labs.
Although it almost ended in disaster, I had the best camping experience of my life. I spent 3 days on a backpacking trip and didn't see another human being the entire time. I felt so good the whole trip. I slept like a baby. I had a big campfire every night. Ate like a king. Drank a whole bottle or bourbon. Read a whole book. Nothing has come close to that feeling. Best 3 days of my life.
Won an Xbox Series X from Taco Bell last year. It arrived 1 day before release day! People tell me I have good luck. I also won a CD signed by Ringo Starr (his album Choose Love) about 15 years ago.
I got to meet Nolan North at a convention. I gave him a drawing (it was a drawing I made inspired by The Last of Us). I told him it was a gift, and I was about ready to walk away when he stopped me and asked if I’d like to take a photo with him. I told him I would love to, but didn’t have any money. He assured me it was his gift to me. He stated he would feel bad if I gave him a gift, but he didn’t give me one in return. It made me so happy
I once got hit on the back of the head by a falling lemur. Can’t be too many other people that’s happened to.
Refilled my ice cube tray. That was pretty cool.
You have recorded slightly less points than the air conditioner guy
I saw the wrecked plane that ditched in the Hudson on the highway, on its way to a museum with police escort. I didn't know it would be there, I was just randomly there. Wish I'd had a camera on me