I have a co-worker who is a huge Swifty. She's my closest friend at work, we had to share a classroom a couple years ago and really got to know each other. Taylor is to her what PJ is to me. This last weekend she scored las minute tickets to Taylor in Canada. She booked a last minute flight and when she arrived no hotel were available except the nicest one next to the venue at $2,000 a night. Out of her price range, but didn't have other options, so she sucked it up and did it. It had a really nice concierge lounge and spent several hours with a really nice family. They hung out for the afternoon before the show, took pictures for each other, and were just really nice and great kids. She gets to the show and has amazing seats, right next to the area with a bunch of celebrities. She looks around, sees that nice family with around other celebrities and spots that family she hung out with. She looks up pictures of the wife and sees the name "Jill Vedder" and it dawns on her! Then everything made more sense, they talked about about how they love the lyrics of Taylor and how their approach to writing lyrics and songs and how the daughters are striving to be singers. They totally assumed she knew who they were and was just being polite or professional about it. She apologized to me and said if she realized it she would have ran out and got a record for them to sign for me or something. She has pictures on her phone of her and her daughter taken by Eddie, but none with him, because she had no idea at the time.
I have a co-worker who is a huge Swifty. She's my closest friend at work, we had to share a classroom a couple years ago and really got to know each other. Taylor is to her what PJ is to me. This last weekend she scored las minute tickets to Taylor in Canada. She booked a last minute flight and when she arrived no hotel were available except the nicest one next to the venue at $2,000 a night. Out of her price range, but didn't have other options, so she sucked it up and did it. It had a really nice concierge lounge and spent several hours with a really nice family. They hung out for the afternoon before the show, took pictures for each other, and were just really nice and great kids. She gets to the show and has amazing seats, right next to the area with a bunch of celebrities. She looks around, sees that nice family with around other celebrities and spots that family she hung out with. She looks up pictures of the wife and sees the name "Jill Vedder" and it dawns on her! Then everything made more sense, they talked about about how they love the lyrics of Taylor and how their approach to writing lyrics and songs and how the daughters are striving to be singers. They totally assumed she knew who they were and was just being polite or professional about it. She apologized to me and said if she realized it she would have ran out and got a record for them to sign for me or something. She has pictures on her phone of her and her daughter taken by Eddie, but none with him, because she had no idea at the time.
That must have been awesome for Ed. I bet their family got a great chuckle about it.
"A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
I have been lucky enough to meet them all at one point or another and some of them twice. I drove for a car service while I was in college and we drove them when they were in town for a few days. Over the years I have stayed at the same hotel they have been at a few times and bumped into them. They have all always been really nice, humble, and engaging.
I have been lucky enough to meet them all at one point or another and some of them twice. I drove for a car service while I was in college and we drove them when they were in town for a few days. Over the years I have stayed at the same hotel they have been at a few times and bumped into them. They have all always been really nice, humble, and engaging.
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