Day 26: Someone You Got To Meet

 

I am grateful to have met Andre the Giant. We happened to stay in a hotel with him in the Midwest, just a few years after The Princess Bride was released. We got on an elevator and there was Andre the Giant, a person whose stature would've been notable even without his celebrity. We tried to say hello and he did not respond; it was unclear whether he could actually hear us and at that point he might have been tired of constantly getting recognized and hounded everywhere he went.

As I've written in a previous post, I absolutely love The Princess Bride, so it was a thrill to get to see one of the actors in person, even if it wasn't the most warm and fuzzy of receptions.

More importantly, whenever I'm thrown into an icebreaker (side note, if I ever flip the switch and do a series of "ungratefuls", icebreakers will be right at the top of that list) and there is a question about who is the most famous person you've met, I'm grateful for this one chance encounter so that I have something to say to this question.