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I used to work at a skating rink and once DJ'd a private party for Dennis Rodman's daughter.  He was very quiet and just watched from the sidelines.  Would have LOVED to see him on skates!

When I was a server/bartender at a Md. style crab house in Phoenix in the mid to late 90's, lots of celebrities would come in (football players, NBA and WNBA, PGA, LPGA) but mostly, I never recognized them.  But I did wait on John and Cindy McCain and their family on several occasions.  He was a big tipper, drank gin martini's and lots of customers would send drinks his way as thanks for favors he had done (like Westpoint and Naval Academy recs).  It was great  to chat with them and meet their family, and now he is running for president.  Too bad they didn't have cell phone cameras back then!

And I think that everyone in Phoenix has met Alice Cooper.  Lastly, we waited at a valet with Emmit Smith on Christmas eve at Scottsdale Fashion Square.  It was funny, the girls were flocking him, then they started asking my husband if he was a baller too - with me right there!  I responded "No, but he is Time Magazines Man of the Year".  Time had just released that their "Man of the Year" were the members of the Armed Forces.  My hubbie is active duty and  had just returned from deployment.  They thought he was someone famous - not quite:)

To crzkb:

I went to high school with Vince Neil's wife, Lia (Leah) Gherardini, in Pleasanton.  We knew each other just with a casual "hey" from time to time, as she was one or two grades above me.  Her best friend's Dad was the mayor of Pleasanton back then, who lived three blocks from my house.  She was certainly a rocker chick back then too!

Thanks; I love reading all these cool encounters!

Here's my list:

1) Patsy Cline is my husband's Mom's cousin; never met her because she died two months before he was born, plus was adopted and didn't find birth family until 2004

2)  Meet & Greet with band Train; front row Train and Sheryl Crow in August 2002

3)  Dinner with Vince Carter, Antwan Jamison & Lamar Odom in Oakland night before Carter won NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 2000

4)  Meet Larry Bird in front on restaurant in Indy 2005

5)  BEST EXPERIENCE:  Michael Jordan rubbed my very pregnant belly at a casino in Lake Tahoe in July 2002; also meet Charles Barkley and Ray Allen in same roped off area that night!

I was bartending at a hotel on Christmas Eve.  Vince Neil and his girlfriend (now wife) were visiting her parents in town, and they were staying at our hotel.  Vince and his girlfriend came to the bar and had a couple glasses of wine while they waited to meet her parents.  He pulled out a HUGE wad of cash to pay for the drinks. 

My friend's dad just met Sarah Jessica Parker... does that count??!   ;)

Before being a mom, I did PR for a local Sacramento Ad Agency. While on a business trip to LA with MGM (a potential new client) I attended many movie screenings, one with my life-long idol... Julie Andrews. I was always a Sound of Music fan, so that was a big deal to me. I wanted to watch her instead of the movie!

When I was a kid, we lived in Los Angeles for a time.  Our mother's boyfriend was hired to be a "Mannie"  (a man-nannie housekeeper) for a celebrity-wife's kids.  We would hang out with my mom's boyfriend and the kids some weekends.   The kids' father was Mike Farrell,  'BJ Honeycutt" on M.A.S.H. 

When we went in to meet him he was proped up on the floor of his modest home, coloring in a color book with color pencils. I was impressed!  I don't think he wanted to be obtrusive when children where coming over to meet him. 

He was and is a wonderful gentlemen, humanitarian and a vegetarian,  too.  At the time, he owned an all-vegetarian restaurant that he had invited us to go to.  It was fantastic!

Jane Fonda was married to a legislator way back in the days.  On her travel to Sacramento she would work out at Capital Athletic Club, and we all know she is a workout fanatic.  Well back in those days I was a work out fanatic too and a member of the Capital Athletic Club.  There she was, Jane Fonda, I could see her in the reflection of the mirror as I worked out, I didn't want to stare, but I did.  She looked fabulous.  Then she was off the workout machine.  I was almost done, but expedited my workout to get another glimpse.  I entered the women's locker room and there she was, Jane Fonda all naked!  Yikes I was so embarssed that I ran out, I did however manage to get a good look and I have to tell you she is quite fit and toned.  I didn't want to get caught stocking her again, so I just did another 30 minutes on the stairmaster.  I guess I was inspired by her healthy and toned body.   Thank you Jane Fonda for inspiring me.