Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Surreal moment.
I'm sitting with a few of the other VPs at Capital Grille - the owner of our parent company flew in on his private jet and took a few of us to lunch as a "thank you" for another year. As we're sitting there waiting for our meals, he gets a text message from someone telling him that Sylvester Stallone is about to be named by the Trump transition team (or whatever they call it) as some kind of head of a new task force to stop piracy in the motion picture industry. I have no idea if this information is even public yet, but expect to see something about it.
As he announces this to the table, I turn toward a few of my co-workers at the other end of the table and say : "I don't even know what's real and what's fantasy anymore." As I'm saying this, the owner of the company is calling Sylvester Stallone. Yes, he has Sly's number in his phone. Stallone's wife Jennifer is the spokesperson/co-owner of a product line we do business with. He begins talking to Sly, unbeknownst to me. After a few seconds, he puts Stallone on speaker phone so a few others at the table closer to him than I am can hear what Sly's saying about it. At that moment, I launch into a (pretty decent) Stallone-as-Rocky impression:
"So, yo..... I mean, you know, I like.... hate piracy and everything, you know... but I don't know about being no CZAR of nothing, you know..."
Apparently, it was loud enough that Stallone, who I still don't realize is on the phone, could hear it. All of a sudden, I hear : "Who is that in the background? Is somebody doing an impression of me?" I nearly crapped my pants right then and there. I spin around and the owner of my company is laughing his ### off. He holds the phone closer to me as if prompting me to say something.
"Ummmm, yeah. Not too bad, huh? (nervous laugh)"
"I've heard better. (no laugh)"
"(bigger nervous laugh) I'm sure you have, Mr. Stallone."
"I do like the idea of being the 'czar' of anti-piracy though. I wonder if I can have that title..."
(Whole table laughs and the owner takes him off speaker phone and continues the conversation.)
So, now I can cross "doing an impression of Sylvester Stallone FOR Sylvester Stallone" off my bucket list. Didn't even know it was on there.
I'm sitting with a few of the other VPs at Capital Grille - the owner of our parent company flew in on his private jet and took a few of us to lunch as a "thank you" for another year. As we're sitting there waiting for our meals, he gets a text message from someone telling him that Sylvester Stallone is about to be named by the Trump transition team (or whatever they call it) as some kind of head of a new task force to stop piracy in the motion picture industry. I have no idea if this information is even public yet, but expect to see something about it.
As he announces this to the table, I turn toward a few of my co-workers at the other end of the table and say : "I don't even know what's real and what's fantasy anymore." As I'm saying this, the owner of the company is calling Sylvester Stallone. Yes, he has Sly's number in his phone. Stallone's wife Jennifer is the spokesperson/co-owner of a product line we do business with. He begins talking to Sly, unbeknownst to me. After a few seconds, he puts Stallone on speaker phone so a few others at the table closer to him than I am can hear what Sly's saying about it. At that moment, I launch into a (pretty decent) Stallone-as-Rocky impression:
"So, yo..... I mean, you know, I like.... hate piracy and everything, you know... but I don't know about being no CZAR of nothing, you know..."
Apparently, it was loud enough that Stallone, who I still don't realize is on the phone, could hear it. All of a sudden, I hear : "Who is that in the background? Is somebody doing an impression of me?" I nearly crapped my pants right then and there. I spin around and the owner of my company is laughing his ### off. He holds the phone closer to me as if prompting me to say something.
"Ummmm, yeah. Not too bad, huh? (nervous laugh)"
"I've heard better. (no laugh)"
"(bigger nervous laugh) I'm sure you have, Mr. Stallone."
"I do like the idea of being the 'czar' of anti-piracy though. I wonder if I can have that title..."
(Whole table laughs and the owner takes him off speaker phone and continues the conversation.)
So, now I can cross "doing an impression of Sylvester Stallone FOR Sylvester Stallone" off my bucket list. Didn't even know it was on there.
