Mutt

I've seen tons, said 'hey Mr./Ms Celebrity I'm a big fan' to quite a few, actually exchanged a few sentences with a smaller number.

Biggest celeb to say hi to was Paul Newman, at a race track in the middle of nowhere in Canada. He was racing, saw him in the coffee shop of the only motel near the track.

John Candy, like a few million other people.

As a kid I worked for the catering company at the pro tennis tournament a few years, so met or saw every major tennis star of the early 80's while working in the players' tent - met John McEnroe and his dad.

Many NHL hockey players and coaches, attending hockey camps and also lived in the same neighborhood as a bunch of Toronto Maple Leafs of the early 80's. I went to the same schools as Tim Horton's kids, all girls.

I saw the Queen's mother in a limousine pass by my house, members of the Royal Family would stay at a famous estate near our house.

I met a bunch of US senators walking through their office building - I forget the name of the building but crazy, you could just walk in, no security that I can remember, get on an elevator and explore the different floors. It was neat, like walking through any company's offices, reading the senators' names on the doors, and most of the doors weren't closed, we stopped and talked to Ted Kennedy's secretary hoping to meet him but he wasn't around. We rode an elevator with a famous senator whose face I knew from his appearances on TV news programs, Sen. Alan Simpson, he was extremely nice, asking us questions about where we were from, what we were studying in school, my interest in politics etc

Oh, Jerry Lewis, who was a prick, literally body checked me as I was approaching him to say hi and get an autograph hopefully, I was 9 years old. Maybe a bad day and he had to run to use a toilet, who knows.

I can't imagine being a major celebrity, I think it would grow old very fast.

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