Don't you know who I am?

DavidMn · #1 10-25-2006, 02:28 PM

Some of us Schmucks have jobs where we occasionally encounter celebrities. I have a friend who's a server at a very nice seafood resturant here in Minneapolis and one night a local tv couple showed up and proceeded to move themselves right to the reservation desk and demand to be seated immideately.

My friend basically said, there is a line of people and you'll have to wait like everyone else. The couple were incredulous and you guessed it said "Dont you know who we are. We know the owner of this place and if you want to have a job tomorrow we suggest you seat us now."

Just wondering if any of you have ever encountered something like this in your job?

mikeschmike · #2 10-25-2006, 02:30 PM

Who did that?

DavidMn · #3 10-25-2006, 02:30 PM

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Who did that?

He told me it was Steve and Sharon from that one show they used to do? remember?

mikeschmike · #4 10-25-2006, 02:32 PM

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He told me it was Steve and Sharon from that one show they used to do? remember?

Oh my god...Good Company hasn't been on the air since God was a boy. Like they have any pull around here anymore!

DavidMn · #5 10-25-2006, 02:35 PM

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Oh my god...Good Company hasn't been on the air since God was a boy. Like they have any pull around here anymore!

That's what makes it even more pathetic. I mean talk about z level celebrities!

The resturant was Oceanaire btw. FABULOUS FOOD!

skcin · #6 10-25-2006, 02:56 PM

Not celebrities, but we do get spoiled brats who feel their entitled to more than everyone else. It usually goes something like this.

"Have a seat, they'll be right with you."

"I don't have time to wait. Can they see me now?"

"When it's your turn, they'll call you."

"But I'm busy! I'm a med/dental/law student!"

I'm not stereotyping either, 99% of the time it's that particular student population. Oh, and the athletes.

Their coach will actually try & call us & demand we see them immediately. Whatever. I don't give a damn what sport they play, their fever of 99 with sniffles does not take precendence over the liberal arts kid who has been vomitting for 4 days.

JazmenFlowers · #7 10-25-2006, 03:08 PM

well, being a celebrity myself, I have to say that I would never act in such a manner. yes, I may require that my table be lit in a certain fashion, that I have my own personal waiter and allowed to order food not on the menu...but never like this.

JazmenFlowers · #8 10-25-2006, 03:09 PM

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I'm a...law student!"

and this never changes.

BlackWidow · #9 10-26-2006, 10:53 AM

When I was a waiter..I waited on hundreds of Celebs!!!
Favorites were:
Madonna (yes..I was nervous)
Tom Waits
Marcia Clark (very dark sense of humour I loved)
Diane Keaton
Drew Barrymore (the sweetest)
I could go on and on....gosh.

BlackWidow · #10 10-26-2006, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Not celebrities, but we do get spoiled brats who feel their entitled to more than everyone else. It usually goes something like this.

"Have a seat, they'll be right with you."

"I don't have time to wait. Can they see me now?"

"When it's your turn, they'll call you."

"But I'm busy! I'm a med/dental/law student!"

I'm not stereotyping either, 99% of the time it's that particular student population. Oh, and the athletes.

Their coach will actually try & call us & demand we see them immediately. Whatever. I don't give a damn what sport they play, their fever of 99 with sniffles does not take precendence over the liberal arts kid who has been vomitting for 4 days.

I feel you.
In my business now..I deal with studios & celebs everyday...talk about entitled!!!! yikes.

Neb-Maat-Re · #11 10-26-2006, 04:30 PM

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I'm a...law student!

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and this never changes.

Lawyers with egos? Surely, you jest.

My best "Don't you know who I am?" was when I had a belligerent phone call demanding to know if one of our Para-legals was at work so the caller could slap a subpeona on them.

I asked who the caller was - defence lawyer, aggrieved victim, witness?

The guy kept shouting, "I am Hugo Rich!". Meant nothing to me, and I told him so. Several times.

Turns out later he was one of Australia's most notorious criminals who had changed his name by deed poll but still expected me to know who he was. Not knowing seemed be getting really steamed up.

mikeschmike · #12 10-26-2006, 04:35 PM

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I feel you.
In my business now..I deal with studios & celebs everyday...talk about entitled!!!! yikes.

Okay, time to come clean. You're Heidi Fliess aren't you?

ELIUD · #13 10-26-2006, 04:45 PM

Local celebrities are the worst kind. They've always got trash circulating about them too so you'd think they'd just kiss everybody's ass til they made it big nationally and get the hell outta Dodge. But NOOOOOO. They gotta suck the life outta every person they meet.

My friend Bob, a realtor, was going door to door once in the richest Dallas neighborhood attempting to pass out his card to potential sellers when the woman of the house answered the door. After he introduced himself and presented his card she asked him, completely aghast "Do you know who I am?". He had no idea, but her maid came running to the door just then and Bob said to her "you better help this lady out, she doesn't know who she is." I thought that was pretty damn funny.

JazmenFlowers · #14 10-26-2006, 04:49 PM

^^^
reminds me of the story where a princess gets on a plane and her obviously gay steward asks her to put up her tray for take off. he asks repeatedly and she declines. finally she says "Don't you know who I am?" and he says "No, sorry I don't."

she says "I'm a princess."

he says "Well, I'm a queen, bitch, so I outrank you. now put your damn tray up!"

DavidMn · #15 10-26-2006, 05:00 PM

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^^^
reminds me of the story where a princess gets on a plane and her obviously gay steward asks her to put up her tray for take off. he asks repeatedly and she declines. finally she says "Don't you know who I am?" and he says "No, sorry I don't."

she says "I'm a princess."

he says "Well, I'm a queen, bitch, so I outrank you. now put your damn tray up!"

I just split my sides....