10 Things...

[athersgeo]

Gacked from beeej:


1) Sung "Like a Virgin" in front of between 400 and 500 people (and no, I wasn't drunk).
2) Been kissed by Peter Wingfield.
3) Interviewed Andy Flintoff
4) Been in a minor train crash
5) Been asked for directions to the red lights district
6) Visited (briefly) Bahrain
7) Stood in the same cash point (ATM) queue as Baldrick
8) Paid so that 300 people could hear Peter Wingfield read the phone book.
9) Taken (and passed) my umpiring exams
10) Served David Beckham a McDonalds drive thru meal

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[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

2) Been kissed by Peter Wingfield.

Wowie!

[eternalmusings.livejournal.com]

You served David Beckham at a McDonald's drive thru? *snerk*

I'm way too amused by that.

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

2) Been kissed by Peter Wingfield.
8) Paid so that 300 people could hear Peter Wingfield read the phone book.

Con story? I wanna hear! *pouts*

Please? :)

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Yup - though, sadly, I have no actual memory of the event, I've just seen the photos that prove it happened.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Our McD's was the closest to the Man Utd training ground so at various times most of the 1998/9 squad passed through our drive thru. I got David Beckham, someone else got the Neville brothers and Teddy Sherringham molested someone's hat (never DID get the full story on that one...)

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

OK. 8 actually came before 2.

There'd long been a theory in the HL fandom that people would pay to hear PW read the phone book (because the man has such a nice voice), so at HLDU4, someone brought a section of the Baltimore phone book taped to a card, complete with the explanation (about the whole "pay to hear the phone book" thing) and the HLDU4 organisers auctioned the reading off. I won the auction, and PW read the Balto phone book to all of us :)

Then, at the end of the con, the results of the fanfic competition were announced. (In the six weeks or so prior to the con, the organisers had held a fanfic competition - you had to write a missing scene from HL:TS - with the winner being announced at the con. I entered and promptly forgot about it.) The con organisers read out the placings and to my complete and utter shock, I won. I had to go up on stage and PW presented me with my prize, hugged me and gave me a kiss. At least, I'm *TOLD* he kissed me (and there are photos to prove it): I have NO memory of it. I have no clue how I got up on stage, no idea what happened once I was up there and absolutely no memory of getting off the stage - according to the folks I was with, I turned absolutely sheet white and they thought I was going to faint!

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

You FORGOT something like that?? What were you on?? And where can I get some?

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

The short story is: I'd just been told I'd won a story writing competition and my brain was on temporary short circuit. I was sufficiently out of it that the folks I was with were worried I was just going to walk straight off the stage, ignoring the steps!