In an LA state of mind...

First of all: Sorry for the delay in postings.

And now onto the musings of my mind...

So about a month ago, while driving home from church we drove past a "freshly occurred" car accident. We pulled over to help as best we could. Neither of the drivers were too badly injured but one of them was an older gentleman (late 60's-ish) who was unable to get out of his car because the door was stuck. I hopped in the passenger seat and took a light eval of his injuries and helped control the bleeding from some cuts on his hands and mostly chatted with him until the EMTs, helped him call his wife and exchanged his information with the other driver. I left my new friend, Eddie to the professionals and chatted with this gentleman who lives in the apartment building which the cars ran into. Joshua was prepared with an entire "crash kit" because there are accidents at this intersection so frequently. We left the scene after exchanging facebook information with Joshua and completely forgetting to leave Eddie with my information.

A few days later, Joshua sent me a facebook message because Eddie wanted to get in touch with me and sent me his phone number. I then, completely forgot to call him (because I'm a jerk apparently) A few days ago, Joshua sent me another message because Eddie called him again in hopes of getting in touch with me. So, I finally called him back. He only wanted to express his gratitude for sitting with him and helping him out. He then did something I'm not used to. He asked if I've heard of the Internet Movie Database. He suggested I check out his page just to get an idea of what he'd worked on. It turns out that the gentleman from the accident played the guy with the ugly daughter in A League of Their Own!

The impression I got from Eddie when speaking with him on the phone was that he was a bit surprised that I had no idea who he was. I told him that I was glad I got a chance to meet him as a real person and not as an actor. He also was a bit surprised that I was a seminary student and coming from church when our lives intersected. I have a fair amount of friends working in the entertainment industry but rarely do I run into "celebrities." or should I say... rarely do "celebrities" run into each other right in front of me.