Your 15 minutes of fame...
They say that everyone has 15 minutes of fame. Has anyone here had theirs? Here are my (and my parents') claims to fame:
My dad once danced with Linda McCartney! And he once appeared on the news (he's the deputy head of my school, or will be unti lhe retires this year) to talk about the handgun scares in school; this was before the handgun ban in Britain.
My mum has met Elton John and Claire Hamill. And she once appeared in a newspaper along with my brother, who has Down's Syndrome. The article was about people who take shortcuts down our street (thereby causing delays and obstructing the residents), and then being hypocritical enough to complain when my brother's school bus obstructed them! (Even now I still can't believe the gall of those people)
Moi? I've met Rodney Peppe! I was too young to remember it at the time, but my parents and I met him once, and he gave me a signed copy of one of his books (Peppe is a children's author who writes stories about a pig called Huxley).
I've also met Walter Stoller, the first man to cycle around the world.
I've also appeared in newspapers a couple of times. One occasion was in an article about the school, and the other time was when I was part of a protest march to stop a children's playground being closed down (and we succeeded!).
I once came in third in a London-wide poetry competition, with my poem 'The Nautilus'. I got £15 worth of book vouchers for that. I was also highly commended in a national story-writing competition sponsored by W H Smith.
I was also the first person in my village to own Spyro 2!
I survived a coach crash in Austria earlier this year, and there was an item in both the British and Austrian news about that. The wrecked coach and a group of people from it were shown on screen, and I may or may not have been among them.
Blimey, I get around, don't I? Not bad for someone who's only 15!
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