Anyway, about this actual famous person. I'm not naming her here, because for all I know she's got a crazy stalker and that's why she moved to my tiny town. So why am I mentioning it, then?
Well, I feel kind of bad for her, actually. It struck me, as one woman who had clearly appointed herself "best friend" talked to the famous woman non-stop during basketball practice. Famous woman was so clearly there to watch her kid and people kept coming up to her and coming up to her. It would be one thing to be hounded on the red carpet or to have a photographer follow you in the grocery store, but to have your new neighbors do it while you're wearing sweats and no make-up must really suck.
Lovebug in action. No famous people.
Lovebug sat next to her son at one point during practice and there seemed to be some poking and pushing. Now, I don't know who started what and I don't think it was a big deal, but in normal circumstances I would have made Lovebug apologize after practice. As practice ended, I got into a conversation with another mom, then I had to talk to Lovebug about interrupting while I talked to the other mom, then I looked at famous woman.
She was almost surrounded by people. I have never seen anyone be this friendly to anyone else new in town.
I decided leaving the poor woman in peace was more important than apologizing.
What's so weird to me is that while there aren't so many (any other?) famous people in our town, there are plenty who grew up in and/or who now live in towns around here. From what I gather from a friend who works there, people are much cooler when Paul Rudd shows up in his hometown bar. And that's in Kansas City, which has considerably fewer famous people.
Of course, for all I know she loves people coming up to the her all the time and thinks I'm terribly rude for not approaching her. What do you guys think?