My aunt was working at a charity sale and was in the musical instrument area. She had a few strange instruments that she was trying to get people to bid on. Steven Tyler came by and the two of them chatted about the instruments she had for sale. They jammed with some Ode To Joy together. She asked him what he did and he said he was a professional musician - in her circle that’s usually someone who is retired and plays at small events for fun. So she chatted with him about how it was going for him and said it was cool he was doing well enough with his music to tour. He ended up buying two different instruments from her.

It wasn’t until she posted a video of the two of them singing together that she realized she was talking to anyone famous. I chatted with her on the phone a few weeks later, and she still didn’t really understand how big of a deal Aerosmith was. I played several of their songs and she knew them all, and she was happy to have chatted with him.

I bet it was refreshing to him to talk to someone who didn’t realize he was, and just to have a normal conversation.

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Not me, but one of my young employees when I was running a steakhouse. She comes back to get me because an old man has his money clip out and won't take no for an answer, but we are fully booked. Needs my help to talk to him. I walk up to the front desk and find Bill Murray and his friends.

He was hilarious from the start offering money to just sit on the floor somewhere out of the way to eat. Obviously that wasn't going to work. Ended up taking him to one of my other restaurants (multiple under one roof) and set him up with my best team there. He had a blast joking with my team, walked around a bit talking to regular guests, and went on his merry way.

Was pretty funny going back to my hostess. Ghost busters? No. Caddy Shack? No. Groundhogs day? Nope. She was so young none of that ever crossed her radar.

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Not me, but many years ago my granny was on a flight and got home and said "oh, I met the nicest man on the plane, he's a musician! We had a lovely conversation!" That man was Carlos Santana. She didn't even get an autograph 😔 but just raved about how nice he was.

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I don’t know if this counts because I was too young to really understand what fame was, but I met Arnold Schwarzenegger when I was in 2nd grade because they filmed Kindergarten Cop at my school. I just remember how big he was and remember him laughing when I told him my dad could beat him up. My dad was 5’7” so I’m quite certain I got that one wrong.

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When I was in high school Arnold landed in a helicopter on our football field and personally gave awards to the kids that had earned the Presidential Physical Fitness Medal. Which at the time was a dumb gym class thing where they recorded how fast you could run and how many pull ups/push ups/sit ups you could do. America - praising jocks above all others since the dawn of time. ;)

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I had a very pleasant phone conversation with an older British gentleman who introduced himself as Tony. It took me way too long to realize it was Sir Anthony Hopkins.

On another occasion, I kept looking across the room at someone because he looked so damn familiar. Finally he came over to me and said, "Okay, you're looking at me like we went to high school together or something. Hi, I'm Wil." And then I shook Wil Wheaton's offered hand lol.

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Wil Wheaton? UPVOTE! That other guy is good, too. lol

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Lmao a few years ago my mom told Tom f*****g Hanks to stop talking to her cause she's there to enjoy the scenery, not talk to strangers 😂 she is a mean russian lady.


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I ran up to my mom at a pacific palisades lookout point to share that i walked by Tom Hanks. When she sees me, she goes into a rant about how everyone in california claims they're an actor and that being a lil background character doesn't mean they're famous. Said some guy was talking to her for a while and just kept asking questions and talking about himself. Then said "dont people understand this is a place of peace and quiet? I told him we should just enjoy the ocean without talking, its important to connect with nature". She gave me his business card and said "here, i dont have my purse put this away so we can see what kind of actor he is when we go home" (in russian it sounds like a sarcastic "he's not really an actor" phrase). 😂 blew my "i just walked by someone famous" story right out of the water. Apparently, they had a pretty long conversation. I found it hilarious that she told him how displeased she is with america.

When she found out who he was, she had a look of horror on her face and was embarrassed for being rude. I tried to urge her to call because i guess he wanted to stay in touch, but she was too embarrassed.

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I worked at a small radio station. I worked the night shift and blasted our number out and took requests. A major highway went through the area. One night someone called and requested a Spice Girls song. We were supposed to ask their name and where they are calling from to announce it when we play the song they request. I said "sure where are you calling from?", the caller said "just traveling along 95". I said "great, and what's your name", she said "Madonna" and I said "oh cool, like the singer?". She chuckled and said "yeah, like the singer". I hung up and the more I thought about it, the more I realized the caller did sound exactly like Madonna. I did some research and found out she had been traveling that day in the direction that would take her right near our town. TLDR: I'm 90% sure I taled to Madonna on the phone and didn't realize it.

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A friend of a friend of mine once ended up telling Madonna to **** off! Long story involving a missing helicopter.

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I delivered a Starbucks order to Kristen bell when my career wasn’t doing so well. She was fantastic, beautiful for sure, had one of her kids in tow. Didn’t even recognize her as I was doing the delivery, just happy that it was someone kind, and tipped well. It wasn’t until I got home and was watching good place that I put it all together.

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Was visiting Greece with my family when I was about 4 in the late 80s. We were at the Parthenon wandering around. At one point, distracted, I go to hug the leg of a person I thought was my dad. Looked up and it was not my dad ( he was like 5ft away looking the other way).

Apparently it was Chuck Norris.

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They named a bridge after Chuck Norris, but it's never been used. Because nobody crosses Chuck Norris.

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I bumped into Tommy Lee (literally) at the Philly airport, years ago. I was too distracted by a guy in a lavender 3 piece suit, and didn't even notice Tommy. Turns out, dude was his assistant, who was dressed like that and walking a bit away from Tommy to purposely distract people from him. 😆🤦🏻‍♀️

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If it works… but is there a better way?

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When I was 19 I worked briefly at the Virgin megastore on sunset. Some guy comes up to me and seems kinda familiar, pays for a bunch of vinyl with a credit card. I ask him for ID and he points at the display of Marilyn Manson’s recently released memoir that are right being me and says, “That’s me.” Im petty and because I didn’t like his music i insisted on getting the ID, lol.

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Good on you. There are always more people who won’t recognize a famous person than who will. Nobody should expect deference based on fame.

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I used to work at my uncle's gas station in a Seattle suburb. My mom and I worked the weekend shifts. One day, we were picking up our checks. My mom was standing in front of the door, and an older African American man came rushing in, almost knocking my mom over. He apologized to my mom and then prepaid for his gas. After he left, my cousin (who was working) looked at us and said, "You know who that is, right?"

We did not. It was Danny Glover. We learned that ours was the only gas station he he would use unless he had no other choice when he was in the area. I saw him a few times a year when I worked. Always nice and polite and prepaid for his gas in cash. Also, he has one of the warmest smiles I've seen on a human.

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I was at a dive bar and some band was absolutely butchering “Cherry Pie” by Warrant and I asked the waitress who the awful band was. Turns out it was Warrant.

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Sorry, No Jani, no Warrant! I met them years ago back in the days when they were huge at a record release party our radio station had for them. I was only 14 and Jani was the nicest and coolest guy, especially to a teenage fangirl and gave me several autographs. Jani and Sebastian Bach of Skid Row were the two coolest rock stars that I've ever met and that was back when both bands were really big.

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About ten or so years ago I was out on my friends bucks night. As a gift, my friend’s father in law had gotten us on the guest list for some high end function near where we were kicking off. The last thing I remember before waking up in the taxi was five shots being lined up in front of me. That’s when my friend asks “So what were you and Heath Ledger talking about?”. Turns out it was the premier party for the film Ned Kelly and several people had spotted myself and Heath deep in conversation

Edit: 20 years ago. F**k I’m old.

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That was a great film.

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My wife and I went to a baseball game for my birthday, and splurged on really good seats behind home plate. The man sitting next to my wife was friendly, talking with us occasionally during the game.

The next day I watched a replay of the game, and discovered we were next to Wayne Gretzky.

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George Harrison, a Beatle. A BEATLE! Walked into an empty corporate box at the Adelaide F1 Grand Prix during practice sessions. He nodded to me, I nodded to him, thinking I knew his face from somewhere while I continued making phone calls. I only realised as he gave me another nod on the way out after 10 minutes. I corpsed.

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Always "The Quiet Beatle".

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Not me but my grandma was on vacation in New Orleans. Sitting in a restaurant, she saw Lily Tomlin. She knew she looked familiar but thought it was a friend whose name she just couldn’t remember. Trying to be polite, she walked up to her and made small talk, asking how she’d been, etc. she said Lily was very polite in return. She realized who she was later. 😂😂

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She was a lovely woman

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Back around 2000 I was walking my dog before work and my sweet but on the larger size dog went up and sniffed this tiny dog a couple was walking. The toddler in a stroller got a bit upset and I said something about her dog being fine, that he's a really nice boy.

I then proceeded to have a brief conversation with the dad about my rescue followed by we've got to get moving because I'm going to be late for work. As I walked away, I did a double take and realized it was Ethan Hawk, Uma Thurman and the toddler was probably Maya Hawk.

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maya Hawk !! lucky i would luv to meet her

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Taylor Swift. In about 2009 or 2010. I was a truck driver, stopped at a rest stop to take a break. This big motor coach pulls in and a young lady and I guess her mom got out to use the restroom. I held the door for her, she said thank you. I was still out walking around when they came out. They were laughing and she said hi again, I was parked next to them and told them to drive safe. The next day I saw a truck with that same girl's picture on the side of it. It said Taylor Swift. Prior to that, I had never heard of her.

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I spent a few pleasant minutes talking with a very Scottish lady in a fairly quiet Parisian art gallery in Montmartre earlier this year. We discussed how some impressionists were actually pretty awful and that a lot of what is exhibited might be historically interesting, but is still s**te.

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Michael Jordan. I probably would’ve figured it out if he was dressed in a basketball uniform instead of like my dad. He obviously knew I didn’t know and seemed pleasantly amused. He gave me wonderful recommendations for great places to eat on the island we were both visiting at the time. I thought he was a little reserved but very personable nonetheless.

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Shabbily dressed dude and some family walked into a very casual BBQ place in Ohio. Kinda walked around before sitting down and an odd vibe. Hardly anyone in the place though so I watched him as he was just a little off. We walked out and I said to my wife:
“What was up with that dude?”

Her: “you mean Eric Clapton?”

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I exchanged a "hi, how's it going" to Owen Wilson in the line of a local coffee shop in Malibu a few years back. My wife told me after we left that it was Owen. He had shades and a trucker hat on. I was too tired to notice.

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My wife and I were walking in New York looking for a bar we had heard about, when we noticed a couple walking towards us. We were a little lost, so we asked them for directions. He pointed us in the right direction while she looked like she was trying not to be noticed. We thanked them and went on our way. As we got to the bar, my wife said, "that was Emma Stone." We met her and Andrew Garfield and didn't even think twice about it!

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John Denver bumped into me at the Aspen Balloon Festival in the early 1980s. Knocked me down. He was sweet and kind!
I had no idea who knocked me over until my friend told me!

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Me and my friend were at Disneyland in like 2008? We realized late on our last day that we forgot to take any pictures so we were running around trying to get as many as we could. We were at the front gate and wanted to get one last photo of the two of us in front of the Mickey flowers. We asked a group close to us if someone could take our photo. A guy in a white tshirt and jeans said he would. After he snapped the picture, he said, “I better see that on MySpace tomorrow!” and walked away. The group left the park.

It was a weird thing to say, so we just have each other confused looks. Then, in proper movie-like slo mo, we looked back at the group, realization dawning on us. We looked back at each other and screamed lmao. We told that story for years.

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My 10th grade history teacher met Bruno Mars in Ireland. He was in this big group and excited to see another American. They chatted a bit, and Bruno Mars mentioned being a musician. My teacher went "oh cool me too!" because he's in a band. After he left, his wife told him who he was just talking to. Can't imagine how awkward that must've felt.

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Why awkward? If he’s in a band and plays music he *is* a musician too, lol.

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I was at the store with my mom and we were at the checkout counter behind the tallest man I'd ever seen in my life. Unbelievably tall. I asked him his height and he said 7'6". Then I asked him if he played basketball and he laughed and said everybody asks him that question. Two weeks later I saw the same man from the store playing basketball on television. It was Shawn Bradley, one of the tallest players to ever play in the NBA.

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I'm 5"0" (152 cm) and I played basketball and I was good at it - no idea how. Then, later, my husband and I bought a house with a basket attached to the carport. I was heavily pregnant but we started playing with our other 2 kids. One time, I missed the ball and started running for the sidewalk. Our new neighbors were taking a walk and stopped the ball for me after it went a bit in the street. They looked at my husband weirdly. He shrugged and asked if they wanted to know about the time I went skiing and jumped while pregnant (same kid). Everyone laughed, including our two kids. I think they thought he was kidding (he wasn't).

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