At a local golf course I was paired up with Will Miller. I don't know who he is or what he does so I asked what he's been doing. He tells me he's been on a tour, Australia and New Zealand and area. I figured I hadn't been straightforward enough and figured he'd been on vacation. So I asked him a bit more straight out, what he did for a living. "Music." he says, "Celtic stuff." Oh! Says I. "Can you make a living at that?" He told me he could.
A while later at the clubhouse someone enlightened me about green alligators and Irish singers and such.
My son was with me. He assures me that the question about whether Will could make a living with Celtic music actually came out of my mouth in my out-in-public voice.
A friend of mine in law school went home one weekend to visit her parents. Her father had had a brain tumor removed, and although he recovered, his fine motor control was such that he had lost his pilot's certification, and had placed his really nice twin engine turbo-prop for sale. She was reading the newspaper the next morning, and he asked her if she wanted to ride with him to the airport, so he could sign over the plane to the new owner, and she was like, not really, sounds kind of boring.
He came back a couple of hours later, and said, you should have gone, I think you would have liked meeting the guy who bought my plane. He's some kind of singer and he was really interesting. She asked, what was his name, and he said, "Kenny something, I don't remember." She picked up the sale papers.
The buyer, was Kenny Loggins.