Designsmith Hammocks

Celebrities are just like you and me, in that they also love to sit or lie in hammocks.

The point to this article is to show that a little kindness to a celebrity can get you some business. Furthermore if you use friendly and real life stories in the body of work that you submit to all the different places that allow you to record and hold content referring to your website, then this is a good place to start. And NO I am not going to out the celebrity here in this story.

In fact that particular person has had a little bit of a bumpy ride lately. So here is the celeb story. I was at a country show trading in the hammocks. Hammock chairs are always more popular at the shows and I had my display well set up.

I had been given a direct view of the stage from my stall and for a change it didn’t bother me. Usually I start to go stark raving mad as the music played at these shows are a far cry from my favorite heavy metal tastes. The trading chugged along as it normally did at these shows.

I had started to become friends with a great performer whom I has admired in his previous guise as a half member of a brother duo band called Georgia. The two brothers has split to do there own thing and Ghapi was born. What a fantastic performer.

But I digress.

This story is not about Ghapi but a well known female singer.

Towards the end of the show this celebrity person had found out that if she “sat’ in my hammock chairs she could keep an eye on her fellow performers. She had to hang around in a manner of speaking to wait for another singer. Needless to say as soon as she stood still crowds formed around her and she was signing non stop.

I watch this for awhile and couldn’t believe how patient she was. So polite. Crap I would have started to do bad things to people after the way they jostled and stuff. But being that it was late (about 11 pm) I realized that I could save her, so I turned off the lights in my stall. It didn’t make a difference business-wise as it was unlikely that I was going to be selling hammocks in the middle of the night.

Anyway it took ten or fifteen minutes for the crowds to dwindle and disappear, and along the way this fantastically patient person thanked me quietly. She had seen what I had done and was tired and grateful. A quiet 45 minutes was gained gently swaying in the night “shade” of my hammock chairs.

Now finally I am going to get to the cool part of my story.

I had a great friend and fellow trader, a guy younger than my third child, and amazingly it was never noticed at all. We were great friends. He and his family are truly of the good people, willing to stop and help anyone at anytime. And do it willingly. However this particular night my buddy came over to chat and probably sneak a smoke away from his family and we chatted for about ten minutes…. when suddenly he stopped talking and bent down and peered closely at the face of the “celebrity” and immediately he stood up and pulled me away from her and whispered loudly at me saying “rob- did you know that that is xxx in your hammock?”

It was a great cameo, and while is wasn’t some sort of stage shock – remember that he also was at the shows regularly and met performers often – it was more about his discovery that was so funny. So finally if you are curious – yes she did order two chairs and after that I have no idea what happened to them.

While I realize that most articles that are posted into quality article websites are generally more relevant, I quite often drift aimlessly off the point. However I do admit at the same time that when I do write a real life story about an incident from my past I really enjoy writing it. Sort of like sharing my diary openly with you all. In fact the only fully completed 15 book report that I have posted online is so full of personal stuff that I admit that I have to go and completely rewrite it someday.

Our lives are really about the “now” and all too often we forget that, and even though this story is from the past it was really enjoyed at the time as a Life moment. I tend to be very much alive at any given moment and admit to being a hedonist. If you were hoping for a link in this story you will have to delve deeper through the system to find one. I would go so far as to say that if you really enjoyed this story you will possibly only find a few similar and that they do exist. Go on – search for “drunken biker” or any of my Spanner fairy stories.

Good luck hunting.
Rob Anderson – racconteur

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