Captain_Bob
Well-Known Member
OK... So I've never really met anyone really famous until I hit the glamourous job of "Airline Pilot"! 
My first experience was on a downtown ATL overnight. Capt and I go to Hooters and order 50 wings. yes, 50. As we start to polish them off, all of the hooters girls start congregating two tables over in the corner. We finally snagged one and and asked what was going on. She says... "That's Chris Tucker... You know... from Rush Hour". We didn't really believe it becuase he has put on a few pounds and didn't really look like him... but once we started listening to the conversation... his voice is unmistakeable.
Anyway... he eats and finishes while we are still wrking on the 50 wings... he heads downstairs and suddently the music is cranking and the girls are screaming... We look over the balcony and it's some old guys birthday and the hooter's girls had re-arranged the tables to make a "catwalk", in which each one would walk/dance down strutting their stuff, and then the birthday boy would follow suit... then Chris Tucker and his crew! All were having fun... he looks up and sees us peering over the balcony and in that voice of his... he yells... "Hey guys... Come on down!" So what are we to do? Keep peering over the balcony like a bunch of tourists... or go down and dance with the hooters girls and Chris Tucker...
Well... I'd like to say I got "Jiggy with it" with the Hooters Girls, Chris, and his crew... but alas... all we did was go down, introduce ourselves, and shake his hand as we headed out. Yeah... really bad ending to what could have been a great story... but we had just finished a long duty day and we were dragging tired and stuffed as we had just put away like 47 of the wings. So we just rolled ourselves out the door and across the street to the Westin and called it a night.
The only thing that reminded me of this was the fact that on my last 4 day... we had a BNA overnight, and I flew Clay Walker and Lee Ann Womak from IAH to BNA. We put Clay's guitar in the crew closet and he played travel scrabble with his travel companion the whole flight.
Lee Ann was quite a nice lady. Nothing significant to report. We wouldn't have even known they were on the flight if the gate agents weren't making such a big deal out of it... but overall... they looked like perfectly normal people.
Any other "Famous" people experiences while "Flyin' the Line" out there?
Bob
My first experience was on a downtown ATL overnight. Capt and I go to Hooters and order 50 wings. yes, 50. As we start to polish them off, all of the hooters girls start congregating two tables over in the corner. We finally snagged one and and asked what was going on. She says... "That's Chris Tucker... You know... from Rush Hour". We didn't really believe it becuase he has put on a few pounds and didn't really look like him... but once we started listening to the conversation... his voice is unmistakeable.
Anyway... he eats and finishes while we are still wrking on the 50 wings... he heads downstairs and suddently the music is cranking and the girls are screaming... We look over the balcony and it's some old guys birthday and the hooter's girls had re-arranged the tables to make a "catwalk", in which each one would walk/dance down strutting their stuff, and then the birthday boy would follow suit... then Chris Tucker and his crew! All were having fun... he looks up and sees us peering over the balcony and in that voice of his... he yells... "Hey guys... Come on down!" So what are we to do? Keep peering over the balcony like a bunch of tourists... or go down and dance with the hooters girls and Chris Tucker...
Well... I'd like to say I got "Jiggy with it" with the Hooters Girls, Chris, and his crew... but alas... all we did was go down, introduce ourselves, and shake his hand as we headed out. Yeah... really bad ending to what could have been a great story... but we had just finished a long duty day and we were dragging tired and stuffed as we had just put away like 47 of the wings. So we just rolled ourselves out the door and across the street to the Westin and called it a night.
The only thing that reminded me of this was the fact that on my last 4 day... we had a BNA overnight, and I flew Clay Walker and Lee Ann Womak from IAH to BNA. We put Clay's guitar in the crew closet and he played travel scrabble with his travel companion the whole flight.
Lee Ann was quite a nice lady. Nothing significant to report. We wouldn't have even known they were on the flight if the gate agents weren't making such a big deal out of it... but overall... they looked like perfectly normal people.
Any other "Famous" people experiences while "Flyin' the Line" out there?
Bob
