Another "Brush With The Famous" Story

JW of the How Do You Like Me Now Blog sent me the e-mail below. I loved the story and asked for and received her permission to post it.

Dennis --

I love your story about interviewing the hopefully-soon-to-be-vice-president. I have a "brush with famous" story as well.

When I lived in Arkansas and was going to Arkansas State University, there was a group of us who were considered "nontraditional" students. I was married, so that qualified me as "nontraditional." The group included several Viet Nam vets and a woman who dated Elvis. I'm not sure why SHE was considered "nontraditional."

Anyway, there was another person in the group who was a young guest lecturer or something. I'm not sure why he was there but he use to join us at our regular lunch table, I think partly because we were older than the traditional students but younger than the professors. He was a nice guy, and idealist whom we found enchanting at times and unrealistic at others. I recall saying to him, "One day you're going to make a great used car salesman." Another incident I remember was him coming up to the table nearly in tears. He had seen this woman walking down the road, in the cold rain, with children and they didn't have shoes. He thought we should pool together our money, go out and find the woman, and take her and her children to buy some shoes. He was truly broken up about it.

My husband and I moved away from Arkansas a short time later. One day he called me from work and said, "Remember that guy from ASU, Mr. Feelings? Guess what? He's the governor of Arkansas!"

It was Bill Clinton.

jw
She said she had some more like this but is reluctant to post them because it feels like bragging. Well, you know, I think some of my posts come across as bragging also, but that never stopped me. Come on JW. Tell us more of the stories.

BTW, JW tells us that she is going to have surgery and will be away from the blog for awhile and asks for our thoughts and prayers.

Good Luck JW