Friday, January 4, 2013

"Missed Opportunities"

Going through old photos and belongings while you're feeling a little down on yourself is pretty much a horrible idea. Somehow, every time I start trying to clean out a drawer or something it turns into a huge project that ends up pulling out old memories and things that never came to fruition. It's a painful process. I should learn to just toss everything into a fire so it can't haunt me ever again.

That being said, I did go through all my old business cards and found some "missed opportunities" that seem particularly amusing almost a decade later.



I have some very vague memories of how I received the three modeling cards from scouts in Manhattan. I don't think I ever pursued them at all. I must have assumed they weren't legit at the time. Maybe they weren't. I had a bad experience with what seemed to be a scheme in my hometown so I've always been cautious about scouts in general.

The blue card is my favorite. That moment I remember well. I was on tour in L.A. and we had only been there long enough for me to check into my hotel and walk to a fast food place for lunch. Some guy followed me back to my hotel room and walked right in my door. Granted, I left the door open because it was the middle of the day and my cast mates were in the pool right outside. The guy said he thought I would be perfect for his "company" and that he hoped I would get in contact with him. Then he handed me this waterproof (sex juice proof) card with a phone and pager number on it. I'm just glad he didn't kill me.


7 comments:

Reb said...

We are all glad he didn't kill you!

LL said...

I'm a bit confused though by the card, but then again... I am a bit of a rube...

Why would this Jamie guy put that he has 18 years with a valid ID? Is he somehow proud of that fact? Good thing you passed that one up... if he'd be proud of that, you never know what he'd consider something to be ashamed of... ;P

Mike said...

The older you get the bigger the clean out the drawer projects get.

Karen (formerly kcinnova) said...

I suspect many of those cards are related to the same type of opportunity offered by the blue one... yikes! What a creep!

I've been going through old pictures that my mom had: prom night, etc., of me at 18 with my boyfriend. What the heck do I do with them now? I would have liked to have them back then. Still, I can't bring myself to throw them out...

BSOB said...

such an innocent gal! prob a good idea not to call, although you might have made some interesting friends.

jack mehoff said...

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say the dude with the sex juice proof cards' name was "sol"

nope looks like i'm wrong...jamie

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