What Type of Fan are You?

I was enjoying one of the perks of Election Day today by ‘voting’ for about 3 hours. So while I was on my way to pick up Johanna for lunch I passed a group of guys that at first glance looked like any other group of businessmen going to a late lunch on the dreary November day. But when I looked a little closer I noticed the guy in the middle was in a full Carolina blue Jordan brand velour jumpsuit. It was Derek Jeter.

I tried my best to keep walking and not openly gawk, but I am not sure I succeeded. He turned the corner and went into Dean and Deluca and once my feet uprooted from the pavement I scurried into Johanna’s office. After I rushed through the pleasantries I told her who I saw and even she was excited. We ran into Dean and Deluca but apparently just missed him, but the guy behind the counter was proudly showing off his autograph and the place was still buzzing. Johanna was disappointed to miss him, but excited for me and put up with me as I recounted every athlete encounter I have ever had.

Then I noticed a curious thing, the office upstairs was all against the glass window looking into the atrium, and every person walking past seemed to be lingering at the table behind us. When we got up to leave we noticed that right behind the pillar we were sitting next to was Jeter himself. Johanna and I walked past him about 3 different times, and watched countless people ask him for an autograph and a picture.

We were satisfied with the sighting, and I am of the belief that unless you are a politician, Hollywood star, or my own personal favorite athlete then I am leaving you alone. I may look and ogle, but I will leave you alone. But not everyone is of this same mind, Mike Hanley is probably the exact opposite. So this raises 2 questions for me:

1: What do you normally do when you see someone famous?
I am “the cool guy/the wuss”. Look at my follow up post to see more on this

2: Who would you approach no matter what?
I say any significant politician (they want to shake hands anyway right), an uberfamous person (Ali, Pitt, Clooney, etc.) or any of my childhood heroes (I would turn into a blubbering mess for Flipper Anderson)

What type of fan are you?