1) My wife and I were looking for land in western New York about four years ago, prior to our move out of state, when the home builder and his construction buddy came to that land parcel to show us several home plans. My wife kept looking at the assistant, and I wondered why. Then I noticed his resemblance to Nick Carter of the Back Street boys, and so I wondered if she was wondering the same.
Anyways, my wife goes to show this very blond hair, fair skinned guy, who looked in his thirties/early 40s, the boundry lines, while I still talked to the home builder. I ask the older guy if that could be a family member of Aaron Carter as the resemblance was very much there, and he shook his head saying it was Aaron's brother. Days later, when visiting that same land at early evening, we took our sons to the lakeside park a mile away. A woman saw our small child Dylan, who was about one years old then, and scooped him out of the stroller without asking.
Dylan cried and cried and would not stop in her arms. She gave him back to my wife who put him in the stroller. We told her about our other son Aaron who was playing on the children play equipment in the sand near her. She then told us her brother's name is Aaron. He is a singer she said. We put two and two together, and knew that was the sister of Aaron Carter, and we had a short conversation with her about us liking the Back Street Boys music. She admitedly though was a bit too overly confident and assertive in her actions and speech, unlike her brother we met a few days earlier, who acted a bit timid. So, we researched the Carters, and true enough Aaron Carter's family lived just outside that very small touristy village where the land was near.
2) When my Mom was alive, very long ago she was managing a medium sized motel where we lived in the state of New York when a country singer's small tour bus stopped to eat at a restaurant just in front of the motel. The singer's manager asked if she had many rooms to rent, and she said yes, as other motels and hotels in the surrounding area had taken others of their bus in. The singer was Connie Francis, a famous country singer of that time and prior.
That singer and their entourage stayed there that night, and as my Mom loved country music, she made her and the others feel very welcome. At the end of the stay Ms. Francis personally handed Mom a thick large rectangular black and white antique looking poster board picture that she hand signed with inscription saying, "Alice, thank you so much for your wonderful hospitality. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay! Love Connie Francis." A day after they left, 2 dozen roses came to her motel from that singer, too.
3) As I love American football, my wife and I would often go to football training camp in the summer, to get autographs of the Buffalo Bills players. Some days they would sign before practice, along the fence, and sometimes after. The nicest of the players around ten years ago were the punter and kicker, and the rookie quarterback drafted that year. They were really friendly, and wrote an extra message and not just their names on the item we put before them.
The most elusive was Marshawn Lynch. Only once during the many sessions that we attended would he sign to any of the children along the fence by the practice field, and perhaps it was because of severe shyness and avoidance of media there. My wife had handed him a Bills placemat to sign, and a lady assistant with him whispered in his ear, and he hesitated and said, 'Naww.' I think on that day he wanted to sign only for kids.
4) My wife, about twenty years ago, met the Prime Minister of Canada at that time, with her classmates, during a school trip to the government complex where he was, and he shook her hand and the other classmates, with him not saying anything to most, but speaking briefly to just one child she said, from her memory, and speaking to the principal and a teacher. She said he had a firm handshake.