Wednesday, August 27, 2008

We love you Bill

Here's a story. It started last year at about this time on one of our many trips to Disneyland. I don't remember exactly how this happened, but Richard and I were there alone (or maybe the little kids were with Richard's bigger kids or something). Anyway, the park was REALLY crowded and over there by the Pirates of the Carribean ride (where it gets really thick with crowds) we saw this face that we instantly knew. So we stopped there for a few minutes trying to figure out how we knew him. We were racking our brains, "Do we know him from church?" "Did we do an event with him?" "Did I go to school with him?" "We both know him, so it's been fairly recent." "What if he recognized us? It would be rude not to say HI."
Okay, we stood there for at least 10 min. thinking about it. Finally Richard says, "Oh my gosh, we are idiots. It's Bill Rancic from the Trump show, Apprentice." We stood there and laughed at ourselves for the longest time and would laugh every time we thought about it for the next month.
Well, the story has come full circle. We went to a fancy event in downtown Chicago that was to promote a new magazine for small businesses and he was the keynote speaker. He was great and told about his amazing successes. It was a fairly small gathering so we had a chance to talk to him personally and we told him the story. He was so sweet. He said that we should have said HI anyway. He was there for his nephew's birthday. Of course, Richard had the crowd laughing along with us. It was such great closure to that funny day.

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2 comments:

LBBlum said...

you crack me up! I miss you sooo much! I still smile- when I think about that one time- you guys were heading out of town but before you hit the road... you pulled over and ran milk to my front door. :0)
You guys are too funny!

Joni said...

That is an awesome, funny story.