30 Times People Didn't Realize Or Even Care That They Met A Celebrity

Michael Jordan. I probably would’ve figured it out if he was dressed in a basketball uniform instead of like my dad. He obviously knew I didn’t know and seemed pleasantly amused. He gave me wonderful recommendations for great places to eat on the island we were both visiting at the time. I thought he was a little reserved but very personable nonetheless.

I met Lavar Burton at the LA airport. Super nice guy. think he liked the fact that I talked to him like a normal guy. He had a goatee which threw me off.

Shabbily dressed dude and some family walked into a very casual BBQ place in Ohio. Kinda walked around before sitting down and an odd vibe. Hardly anyone in the place though so I watched him as he was just a little off. We walked out and I said to my wife:
“What was up with that dude?”

Her: “you mean Eric Clapton?”

I exchanged a "hi, how's it going" to Owen Wilson in the line of a local coffee shop in Malibu a few years back. My wife told me after we left that it was Owen. He had shades and a trucker hat on. I was too tired to notice.

My wife and I were walking in New York looking for a bar we had heard about, when we noticed a couple walking towards us. We were a little lost, so we asked them for directions. He pointed us in the right direction while she looked like she was trying not to be noticed. We thanked them and went on our way. As we got to the bar, my wife said, "that was Emma Stone." We met her and Andrew Garfield and didn't even think twice about it!

John Denver bumped into me at the Aspen Balloon Festival in the early 1980s. Knocked me down. He was sweet and kind!
I had no idea who knocked me over until my friend told me!

Tom. The MySpace Tom.

Me and my friend were at Disneyland in like 2008? We realized late on our last day that we forgot to take any pictures so we were running around trying to get as many as we could. We were at the front gate and wanted to get one last photo of the two of us in front of the Mickey flowers. We asked a group close to us if someone could take our photo. A guy in a white tshirt and jeans said he would. After he snapped the picture, he said, “I better see that on MySpace tomorrow!” and walked away. The group left the park.

It was a weird thing to say, so we just have each other confused looks. Then, in proper movie-like slo mo, we looked back at the group, realization dawning on us. We looked back at each other and screamed lmao. We told that story for years.

My 10th grade history teacher met Bruno Mars in Ireland. He was in this big group and excited to see another American. They chatted a bit, and Bruno Mars mentioned being a musician. My teacher went "oh cool me too!" because he's in a band. After he left, his wife told him who he was just talking to. Can't imagine how awkward that must've felt.

I was at the store with my mom and we were at the checkout counter behind the tallest man I'd ever seen in my life. Unbelievably tall. I asked him his height and he said 7'6". Then I asked him if he played basketball and he laughed and said everybody asks him that question. Two weeks later I saw the same man from the store playing basketball on television. It was Shawn Bradley, one of the tallest players to ever play in the NBA.

Apparently, my former employer's buddy Ben who we met at the TexMex restaurant in 1998 was a performer named Ben Folds. Seemed a nice enough dude. Had no idea he was a performing artist. After lunch, my boss says, "you DO know who that is, right?" And I'm like, "yeah, your friend Ben"