Ex-President Sighting

Kris is feeling better and ventured out to the Lady Bears basketball game last night against Oklahoma. She will text me the score at quarter intervals if I can't find the game on television. The game started at 7pm and I couldn't find it on the boob tube. I received a text at 7:03pm from Kris. Already a score check? Message was, "GEORGE AND LAURA BUSH ARE SO TOTALLY HERE!"

Leave it to my country bumpkin to refer to the ex-president and his wife as "George and Laura". Kris didn't have her camera with her and she said her camera phone wouldn't have taken a very good picture. When pondering why the Bushes would be attending a college basketball game, it dawned on me that Crawford is just up the road from Waco.

My celebrity sightings are few and far between. I lived in Austin in the mid-80's and remember when President Ronald Reagan came to town to deliver a speech on a topic I do not remember. On one of my many trips to Acuna, Mexico, I literally bumped into Patrick Duffy at the Corona Club at the bar. I didn't recognize him at first (could've been the amount of alcohol in my system?). I realized that several girls were getting his autograph so I thought what the hell. I was wearing black lace-up boots so I removed my right boot and asked him to sign the inside of it for me. Don't know what happened to those boots....

My biggest celebrity sighting would have to be the one that lasted for ten years. I never thought of my grandfather as a celebrity, though. I was too young to fully understand the fact that he was an ex-governor of Texas. He was "Papa" to me and "Mr. Coke" to those that knew him in the outside world.

So unless a celebrity lands in Little Town and I bump into him/her at the grocery store, I'm probably not going to increase my celeb sightings any time soon. Oh, the Lady Bears lost to Oklahoma 56 to 51 (or something like that).