A reader emailed me to tell me about the time that they got to meet Jim Cummings and totally panicked to meet him in person. I would love to hear from other readers who have met Jim Cummings and, with your permission, I’d love to post some of the good stories. Feel free to email them over or put them in the comments.

Jim Cummings being low profile and rather hard to run into, this made me think about brushes with fame in general. I’m not interested in that time that you shared an elevator with someone from The Real World or saw them shooting a scene for The Sopranos, I am interested in stories of meeting one of those celebrities that you are a huge fan of or are otherwise totally obsessed with. My family often mocks me that I could probably chat, unfazed, with George Clooney but would be a total mess if I ran into Jim Cummings, who no one else would probably recognize.

Have you ever met one of your “grail” celebrities? Were you suave or did you totally spaz out?

To get the ball rolling, I will share my own sad and pathetic story after the fold. Read the rest of this entry »