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If I’m put in this position I usually hit em with that two week notice.
1) I was a witness at a murder trial.
2) My favorite uncle was the road manager for They Might Be Giants, Yo La Tengo, a few others. I was frequently taken on the road or would meet up with them in NY or Chicago. I was 14-ish. I felt very grown up. It was pretty cool. I saw a lottttttt of live music.
3) I professionally rode horses. Couldn’t afford to ball at the level that the rich girls did, so instead I worked at the barns and became the catch rider/warm up rider. Learned a lot.
I’ve seen a version of this icebreaker that asks for a boring fact about you. I kinda like that because it takes off the pressure to out-interesting everyone else.
Killed a guy at a bachelorette party once... long story not going to go into it. And I don’t.
Oof, I felt that East St. Louis comment way too much CD3
I have titanium rods drilled into my spine from my neck to my butt.
I've fallen through ice on a frozen lake.
Pro
I once met Obama at a baseball game. This was before he announced he would run for president and the person I was with introduced him as Berry. I had no idea who he was.
$DOGECOIN is a good investment
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Found out 15 years later from a script supervisor that I was the reason Spielberg’s on-set security budget was doubled during the filming of Amistad.
Chief
Ha. Looong story. Short non-entertaining version:
Walked on-set while in college to try to get a PA job. (The person I needed to talk to wasn’t in the production office located at the nearby hotel so I walked across the street to the outdoor set)
Found the line producer. Gave him my elevator pitch (with sincerity). He was stunned that I got on-set and booted me.
I left feeling really dejected. Big film productions never took place in RI and I saw that as my only real chance of getting experience prior to graduating.
Cut to 15 years later. On set in LA shooting a spot. Script Supe turns out to be one of Spielberg’s go-to script sups. We get to talking... I begin telling her the story... she cuts me off almost immediately and flips out laughing...
“YOU’RE THE KID!!!”
Turns out that trying to get a PA gig was a major security breach 🤦♂️
Spielberg was PISSED when he heard. Studio had to double the security budget when they shot the 2nd half in Puerto Rico.
Script Supe said that for the rest of the shoot, the crew gave the line producer shit for not hiring me as a PA on the spot, simply for having the ‘moxie’ to do that.
She said Spielberg had done something similar when he was just starting out. Oh well.
Best I ever heard was this “My fun fact is I dont do fun facts” didnt utter another word.
“I don’t actually work here.”
I grew up on a farm near a tiny town and had 23 people in my graduating high school class.
Love when people say, “I’m from a tiny town the population was only 10,000.” And I hit em with, “well my tiny town was a population of 360.”
I had thirty. But it was a very big city and a very expensive school
Because it’s forced I typically ask to go last so I can think. When really I hope we do a few and move on with the meeting. Usually works out well. 🥸🤔lol
I attend 100+ concerts and other live events a year (obviously pre COVID).