Have you Ever Met or Talked Online to a Pro Athlete ?

Have you Ever Met or Talked Online to a Pro Athlete ? May 8, 2020 6:15:59 GMT via mobile weststigersbob likes this

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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 8, 2020 6:15:59 GMT

May 8, 2020 3:11:10 GMT weststigersbob said:

Maybe it’s an Australian sports thing, but Im just an average punter and have met heaps of footballers and cricketers. Definitely not as many as Hosko, but quite a few.

What I’ve never understood about this though, is when morons pester and annoy celebrities, and then get shitty when the celeb is “rude” or “annoyed”. Seriously, if I had some plonker stare at me for half an hour or 100 of them ask me repetitive asinine questions, I’d lose my shit too.

Then again, Australians are a bit different. I remember watching the then PM Malcolm Turnbull walk casually down the platform at Bondi Junction to catch the train, briefcase in one hand, phone in the other. Not a single person batted an eyelid.

Funnily enough a lady from my church saw Turnbull and his advisors on a train and she couldn't work out where she knew him from and so she asked him "Excuse me, but are you someone important?" Mal replied "Some regard me as important: I'm the Prime Minister of Australia." She felt embarassed so he took a selfie with her.

Favourite story about an Aussie PM was Ben Chiffley. For some reason when people asked the operator for a particular Canberra fish and chips shop they would, on occasion, instead be put through to the PM's desk. Ben would politely record the order and pass it on to the fish and chips shop meaning several people were making their take away order directly to the PM and never knew it. The take away shop also never knew who this gravel voiced bloke making all these orders was.