One of my funniest encounters in San Francisco was a birthday dinner for a friend of mine around 1995.
I got there a little late and had ten people introduced to me who I didn’t know. I’m horrible with names so probably instantly forgot all of them.
Most of the people that I didn’t know were at my end of the table and they were all talking about figure skating, which was fine even though I don’t know that much about it, but I listened and it was fairly interesting.
Then suddenly this one guy said, “I’d have to agree my prime was from around 28 to 30.”
I thought to myself, “Who in the world talks like that?” You’d have to either be completely full of yourself or someone who has accomplished something epic to refer to your athletic prime.
So I politely asked the guy, “What did you say your name was?”
And he said “Brian Boitano”
And I laughed and said, “Wow. OK carry on”
