I MET HIM!! OH MUH GAWD!! I MET HIM!! OH MUH GAWD!! |
It was on April 16th, 1999.I was with my bestfriend Dawn of course and we had planned a trip to Hollywood to see GUTTERSLUTS. A few days before we left, I got an e-mail from the motley.com mailing list and it said that Vince would be at the Long Beach Grand Prix helping to promote his clothing line at the Bad Bones booth. An hour later I got an e-mail from Dawn freaking out. (It had been settled, we would go) ;-) We drove from Phoenix to Hollywood on the 15th. Hung out with friends and stuff, then that night we went to the Rainbow, etc etc... it was fun! My first time in Hollywood ;-) The next day we got up around 11pm and decided to head to Long Beach. Of course everyone was thinking, "Yea.. like you will find him in a crowd of over 300,000." (If there is one thing I have learned, it's this: DO NOT DOUBT THE FORCE OF M�TLEY CR�E!!) Well, we drove to Long Beach and found the raceway. We were pretty excited!! I figured we'd be walking around all day trying to find the Bad Bones booth because the place was huge and there were 5 entrances to the place! We ended up parking about a mile away from the entrances. Once we got up to the gates we decided to take the one on the very far right. We hadn't walked more then 100 feet when I saw the Bad Bones/Hustler booth. AHHHH!!!!!!!!! We had found it!! Yay!! I started feeling all flushed, I WAS ABOUT TO MEET VINCE!! And there weren't a bunch of fans around so we wouldn't have to fight for his attention! hehe.. things were looking good. So, we went up to the booth, NO VINCE! Dawn started looking at stuff to buy while I asked the woman where he was, she said he was there at the raceway and occassionally dropped by the booth. Fine, I could wait! ;-) We didn't want to look like idiots so we sat near the booth but out of sight in the blazing hot sun wearing black clothes. It was pure hell!! We were melting!! But we waited... |
Well, after waiting for two hours in the hot sun this woman comes up and says, "Have you been waiting all this time for Vince?" I was like, "YEA!! We didn't come her to see the cars." She laughed and told us he was inside the bar at the hotel around the corner. She said, "Don't be shy, just go up and ask for an autograph." We ran to the hotel and walked in the bar.. he was nowhere. We were about to give up hope but just as we were walking for the door I glanced in the direction of the resteraunt and tables and he was there! But he was eating.. :-( I was like, "God Damnit!!" There was no way we were going to go up to him while he was eating. So, we went outside and Dawn had a much needed smoke while I took tons of deep breaths. It was time! We couldn't wait anymore. We walked back into the hotel resturaunt and he wasn't there. SHIT!! Where could he be?? We walked around for about 2 minutes and found him in a hall way next to the restrooms, ALONE! WOO HOO!!! So we walked up to him and he asked him for his autograph. I stood back and took pictures of him and Dawn and then a woman who walked up told me to get in the picture so I somehow managed to move forward and get in for the picture. He was really cool!! ;-) When we got back to Hollywood everyone was snickering, "Didn't meet him, huh?" NEVER DOUBT THE FORCE!! |