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<blockquote data-quote="DarrenGMiller" data-source="post: 2264419" data-attributes="member: 23174"><p>This is an excellent thread! I have greatly enjoyed reading it. I know I will think of other things once I post my list, but here goes:</p><p></p><p>5. Since meeting famous people seems to be big, I have met Tom Petty, Mickey Spillane (author, creator of Mike Hammer detective stories - I went to high school with his daughter), caught a ride home from a bar from NASCAR legend David Pearson, had dinner with Pete Rose and his son Pete Jr. at an Italian restaurant in Florida, shaken hands with James Young (of STYX), taken classes from Francis McBeth, Robert W. Smith and Dr. Tim Lautzenhiser and performed on-stage with Rocky Fretz, Red Rodney, Roger Pemberton and Jamey Aebersold (those names only mean something to band people and jazz people respectively).</p><p> </p><p>4. Back in 1997, I was stalked by someone who was hired to do personal harm to me (never found out if their job was to kill, injure or just destroy property). Thankfully, I noticed the tail, made some evasive maneuvers and when I couldn't shake them, I happened to come upon a convenience store that was just robbed with 3 police cruisers out front. They had to go 140 mph to catch the guy who was after me (yes, he fled when he saw the police, but was dumb enough to circle the block to see if he could find me again). He was contracted by the parent of one of my students, who had attempted to assault me in my office a few hours before. I had to spend the night at a hotel in another town while the police watched my house, then spend a week with police surveillance (a cruiser parked behind my house). The student was expelled and I got a restraining order for their entire family, but was young and naive and was persuaded by the school distirct not to press criminal charges, as it would bring "unwanted negative publicity" to the district.</p><p> </p><p>3. Named Teacher of the Year for my high school and semi-finalist for my school district for 2005-2006.</p><p> </p><p>2. In the early 90's, I was in the band Slightly Used. We opened a festival in 1992 whose line-up included the lead singer from Guadalcanal Diary as well as Hootie and the Blowfish.</p><p> </p><p>1. Conducted a concert at Cernegie Hall last year (2004).</p><p> </p><p>On the lighter side: Stephen King lived at my house for a summer when I was a teenager, I taught and gamed with Dave Thomas and taught Janet Jackson. However, they were not the famous people, just people who shared the same names.</p><p> </p><p>DM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarrenGMiller, post: 2264419, member: 23174"] This is an excellent thread! I have greatly enjoyed reading it. I know I will think of other things once I post my list, but here goes: 5. Since meeting famous people seems to be big, I have met Tom Petty, Mickey Spillane (author, creator of Mike Hammer detective stories - I went to high school with his daughter), caught a ride home from a bar from NASCAR legend David Pearson, had dinner with Pete Rose and his son Pete Jr. at an Italian restaurant in Florida, shaken hands with James Young (of STYX), taken classes from Francis McBeth, Robert W. Smith and Dr. Tim Lautzenhiser and performed on-stage with Rocky Fretz, Red Rodney, Roger Pemberton and Jamey Aebersold (those names only mean something to band people and jazz people respectively). 4. Back in 1997, I was stalked by someone who was hired to do personal harm to me (never found out if their job was to kill, injure or just destroy property). Thankfully, I noticed the tail, made some evasive maneuvers and when I couldn't shake them, I happened to come upon a convenience store that was just robbed with 3 police cruisers out front. They had to go 140 mph to catch the guy who was after me (yes, he fled when he saw the police, but was dumb enough to circle the block to see if he could find me again). He was contracted by the parent of one of my students, who had attempted to assault me in my office a few hours before. I had to spend the night at a hotel in another town while the police watched my house, then spend a week with police surveillance (a cruiser parked behind my house). The student was expelled and I got a restraining order for their entire family, but was young and naive and was persuaded by the school distirct not to press criminal charges, as it would bring "unwanted negative publicity" to the district. 3. Named Teacher of the Year for my high school and semi-finalist for my school district for 2005-2006. 2. In the early 90's, I was in the band Slightly Used. We opened a festival in 1992 whose line-up included the lead singer from Guadalcanal Diary as well as Hootie and the Blowfish. 1. Conducted a concert at Cernegie Hall last year (2004). On the lighter side: Stephen King lived at my house for a summer when I was a teenager, I taught and gamed with Dave Thomas and taught Janet Jackson. However, they were not the famous people, just people who shared the same names. DM [/QUOTE]
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