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Listen, I've lived successful Los Angeles for astir a decade. Run-ins with celebrities and "heroes" happen, and sometimes they are the nicest radical you've ever met successful your beingness (shout retired to Mandy Moore, who was my regular backmost erstwhile I was a barista), but different times, you privation you never, evvvvvverrrrrr met them.
1. "Jamie Lee Curtis. Halloween was a large portion of my falling successful emotion with movie and portion of wherefore I went to movie school. I worked astatine a movie organisation institution successful my mid-20s, and I was invited to a tiny 15-person premiere after-party for a movie directed by 1 of her best friends. It was me, my colleague, the director, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jake Gyllenhaal, Elizabeth Olsen, a fewer different salient actors, and a fewer different biz folks. Elizabeth Olsen and Jake Gyllenhaal couldn’t person been nicer.
2. "Morgan Freeman! I worked a movie premiere lawsuit for a movie helium did with Gerard Butler. Morgan was rude to each unit from the infinitesimal helium walked in. It bummed maine retired due to the fact that I was truthful honored to beryllium successful complaint of serving the array wherever helium was. Whenever his sanction is brought up, I’m ever reminded of that night.
3. "I got progressive with a radical that fosters and finds homes for babe animals. My god, the bullying and volatility from the 'lovely' radical who ran it. I began to deliberation they worked with animals lone due to the fact that they CLEARLY couldn’t enactment with humans."
"The structure successful my tiny municipality is presently having the biggest drama, truthful overmuch truthful that it is virtually making the beforehand leafage of the newspaper. Seems the committee was moving it into the ground, paying themselves portion underpaying employees and leaving a deficiency of funds near for the animals. Now they're each throwing each different nether the autobus via societal media and letters to the editor."
—u/potsieharris
4. "My mediate schoolhouse subject teacher met Bill Nye. Up to that day, you could number connected astatine slightest 1 notation to the antheral each week. I don't judge I ever heard his sanction permission her rima again aft that day."
5. "Katy Perry. She was attending Karl Lagerfeld's day astatine a edifice I worked astatine successful NYC. She was dismissive and mean to everyone, and accused the unit of stealing her telephone astatine the extremity of the night."
6. "I was connected a tiny PR squad for a schoolhouse territory erstwhile a precise popular, longtime section quality anchor retired. She was an alumnus and joined our squad aft retiring from the news. Everyone was precise excited, including me. I’d watched her increasing up. So, of course, she was a nightmare."
7. "Ozzfest 2003. I was 16, and it was my archetypal festival with an all-access walk without a genitor accompanying me. I could spot successful the region my stone deity hero, David Draiman, from the set Disturbed. I was obsessed with their archetypal album, and helium was walking towards me. I moved person to him, trying to get his attention, and erstwhile helium noticed me, helium rudely brushed maine disconnected and conscionable kept moving."
8. "I thought my CEO was larger than beingness erstwhile I was successful assemblage and trying to get internships. Now that I’ve started astatine the company, he’s conscionable different asshole who’s amended astatine drinking than anyone I know."
—u/malliewater
9. "I met Seth Rogen, and helium was specified a rude, unapproachable person. NOTHING similar his giggly stoner persona. He acted similar a self-important elite."
10. "I’ll always, always accidental that Scotty Pippen is the biggest asshole successful Chicago."
11. "Back earlier helium was canceled, Joss Whedon was connected my 'hero filmmakers' list. Then I met him astatine a convention, and helium was a prick."
12. "I utilized to merchantability merchandise astatine a Broadway show. The manager of the amusement was idiosyncratic I had been a large instrumentality of since I was a child, truthful I was truly pumped to get to enactment successful the aforesaid gathering arsenic them and spot them each day. I wanted to beryllium a theatre manager astatine that point, and that manager was a immense portion of the crushed why. One day, I was cleaning up the merch booth and was bent down down it truthful if you walked done the lobby, you wouldn't spot me. The manager walked retired of the theatre and was screaming astatine this different idiosyncratic astir however shitty the amusement was, however nary of it was their fault, and everything was everyone else's fault."
"They were screaming astir the costume decorator being awful, the publication being garbage, the acceptable not looking good, etc. And each I could deliberation was: they co-wrote the script, they directed the show, and had power implicit each facet of it. They approved each of it. How the fuck is immoderate of it idiosyncratic else's fault? I mislaid each respect for them that day."
13. "William Shatner: rude, dismissive, and jaded. Patrick Stewart: implicit champion ever."
14. "I'm old, but determination was a Chicago paper columnist, Mike Royko. I loved speechmaking his file each day, from erstwhile I was a teen and on. He was a large name, and helium helped signifier my authorities arsenic good arsenic my emotion of journalism. One night, an worker and I walked implicit to a section bar/grill to prime up food. Royko was there. While we waited for the food, I walked up to accidental hullo to him. I was successful awe. He was evidently precise drunk. He dismissed me, rudely telling maine to spell away."
15. "Melissa Etheridge. She was performing astatine Pride, which ever has ASL interpreters for the stages. Most of the time, interpreters are enactment connected the precise country of the signifier by the speakers, a bully mode distant from the performer. Etheridge threw an implicit fit implicit the interpreters being connected the signifier astatine each (despite the information that she didn’t determination erstwhile from the dormant halfway of the stage). So they were enactment connected shaky box-like things that were the aforesaid tallness arsenic the stage, and she threw a acceptable again."
16. "One of the astir celebrated shot players successful the past of the athletics called maine the f-slur erstwhile I was 13, circa 2000. I didn’t adjacent privation an autograph; I conscionable wanted to archer him helium was my hero. I mean, I americium a card-carrying f-slur, but helium didn’t cognize that, helium isn’t, I was 13, and helium tin get perfectly wrecked. Asshole."
17. "I went to a BJ Novak publication signing, and helium could hardly disguise his disgust astatine HAVING to interact with the assemblage who paid to spell spot him."
18. "I was a spooky kid who ever loved acheronian and whimsical things, truthful to nary one's surprise, I yet worked for a magician who was reasonably good renowned. Absolute nightmare of a person. Meticulous is fine, but helium did not respect anyone but himself. Eventually, I excessively disappeared into bladed air."
19. "Bob Baffert, the legendary racehorse trainer who trained 2 Triple Crown winners. When I was successful college, I was connected the way astatine Del Mar and had a genuine involvement successful gathering him and chatting astir the sport, and I was fixed the opportunity. This wasn’t immoderate random 'sighting successful the wild,' alternatively a curated, 'Hi, Bob, I’d similar you to conscionable 2 students funny successful proceeding much astir your vocation trajectory.'"
20. "My person was a HUGE Bon Jovi fan; die-hard successful emotion with him. He came to our metropolis for an lawsuit and took a circuit of her mom’s factory. My person waited for hours to get a glimpse. When she had the accidental to speech to him, each she wanted was an autograph and a photo. His answer? 'I’m not a fucking escaped clown, get retired of here.' She threw distant each his CDs that time and has hated him ever since. I judge she was 17 erstwhile this happened."
21. "Eddie Murphy. I person met a batch of actors and musicians successful my beingness (my household works successful the amusement industry), and helium was by acold the rudest."
22. "As a kid who grew up loving wrestling, I got the accidental to conscionable Edge backmost successful the time erstwhile helium was doing a signing astatine Toys "R" Us, and man, that feline was a dick. We waited 2 hours to conscionable him, and I was truthful excited, but helium didn't springiness maine the clip of time and acted similar helium didn't privation to beryllium there. My dada wasn't adjacent allowed to instrumentality a representation with him and me. Dude singlehandedly turned maine disconnected of wrestling. And no, helium wasn't surviving the gimmick. Dude was conscionable an asshole."
—u/Rassi10
23. "Neil Gaiman. Such a talented writer, but I can't adjacent speech astir him anymore."
24. "I went to bid astatine a reasonably prestigious infirmary nether the absorption of 1 of the astir well-respected surgeons successful the field. Not lone did fractional the module discontinue erstwhile I arrived, but the surgeon was an unrepentant ass. Sexist, gross, infidelous, and disinterested — it was a full let-down. He was technically excellent, but impressively checked out."
—u/Farts_McGee
25. "In the military, I worked for a dude who was celebrated wrong the tract for receiving a medal 1 level beneath the Medal of Honor. All done training, I heard stories astir him, and instructors would archer america we'd ne'er beryllium capable to bash what helium did. He did bash immoderate heroic shit. He and his squad were successful a existent atrocious firefight; helium got changeable a fewer times and had a processing hostility pneumothorax. While being treated, helium continued to bash his occupation and apt prevented much radical from being killed. However, the dude was a monolithic cockbag."
"Terrible shot, cocky, loud, spotlight ranger benignant of dude who was much oregon little resting connected his laurels for getting the decoration helium got. Then I worked for him and recovered retired his tactics and occupation cognition were kinda shit. Then I recovered retired helium really campaigned to person his archetypal medal upgraded. He was benignant of a bitch to everyone other connected the team. I truly looked up to that dude successful grooming and was excited to beryllium moving nether him. Afterwards, I truly understood the 'never conscionable your heroes' thing."
26. "Anthony Bourdain. Absolute monster of a person. I grew up poor, similar ungraded poor, and idolized him for a agelong clip due to the fact that I thought helium truly stood up for the small guy, but that was a facade. He was a stuck-up, sexist, arrogant asshole. And the worst happening is erstwhile I speech astir my acquisition gathering him, cipher wants to judge maine due to the fact that erstwhile idiosyncratic dies by termination they person to beryllium martyred, and you tin ne'er accidental thing astir them again."
27. "Seeing truthful galore large members of the technological and world assemblage similar Stephen Hawking successful the Epstein files was heartbreaking."
28. And finally, "My religion is important to me, and seeing a batch of my older religion mentors enthusiastically enactment Donald Trump contempt his precise evident motivation corruption was heartbreaking."
—u/Old-Pin-7839
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