Apple Ad Guy Still Here!

I saw Jason Long In Barney’s on Wilshire about a year ago we were looking at a table of jeans and I saw a pair of holy ( not at all blessed) jeans that I didn’t even give to Good will and went straight to trash. I remarked, “It must be nice to get $265 for something I just recently threw in the trash.” I looked at the label as Levi’s famously prints them on their Iconic tags that are readable decades later.” My size exactly.” I looked at his waist and said ” Too bad mine weren’t left in the car and I would have saved you $265 we’re the same size.” A few people overheard me and laughed. He was unfazed.I had seen him earlier in the store and he was not a happy camper I thought I’d cheer him up. I’ve seen this scenario many times before. I made sure that I treated him just like everyone else and even a little more respect than usual. A lot of media people in the public eye can not get out of LA for the holidays to see friends and relatives. This is the sad part of their lives as they are a lot of times overextended with commitments at this time of year.. I would have loved to have “poor” Jason over at my sisters family for Thanksgiving. But my sister really put her foot in it once when I told her to leave the poor woman alone as she became starstruck naming the person with her stage name with a southern accent over and over again. I saw the woman’s face and I held up my hand as a gesture she caught it and then became relaxed as she was obviously to the point of tears and we didn’t have to say anything I knew the code, the routine. When I returned to the car. I told my sister that the woman (stage name and real will be omitted) obviously was not going to make it for the holidays and has to be respected of her privacy. This was before the advent of the “paparazzi.” Like Chris Crocker famously said “Leave Britney alone.” I’d like to end this with saying maybe Jason thought his choice of clothing was over priced along with his Apple, but that would be cheap to it’s core, having a lot of holes in it. Okay i’ll stop now. But I will run into others like him this time of year and wish you will cut them some slack. I pretend not to notice but they are usually better actors than I am after all. If they think your cool they’ll ask what you do? Then I say something like ” I hope you don’t think it’s rude that I refrain from asking what you do? They usually laugh, , we exchange cards and promptly lose them. I give them an air kiss and say “Let’s do lunch.” and we part ways giggling.like school girls.( sometimes we meet later and actually do lunch in the dept. store where an A -lister would never be caught dead in) Then I say as we sit down at the table ” So which one of us is going to order something to be made not on the menu and not eat it, or is that to Hollywood for you?” That usually breaks the ice. If you think the holidays aren’t stressful for them try trading jeans (Shoes)