"I thought for a second I was gonna get beaten up by Ray Donovan in a parking lot. Liev, if you see this, I'm legit sorry, and I owe you a pie."

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"He smiled and sat with me while I ate my muffin and drank my tea. When I was done, he asked if I was okay. I said yes, and then I asked, 'What was your name again?' He said, 'Keanu.' I said, 'Like the actor?' He said, 'Just like the actor. I'm a musician.' He again made sure I was okay, and then he left. Interestingly, no fans came forward; it was a very small park in California. ... I'm still embarrassed that I said 'Like the actor' and that I didn't recognize him."

Now, if I just let it stop there, it would have been mostly okay, but I followed up with an incredulous:

He's obviously delightful, so he just grinned and said something like:

I still have no idea why Billy Boyd was chaperoning what looked like a school trip, but embarrassing yourself in front of a celebrity you loved as a kid AND a dozen annoyed Scottish teenagers at your workplace is a special kind of humiliation. My coworkers roasted me for weeks."

"They got an open spot right by the front door. But yeah, I thought for a second I was gonna get beaten up by Ray Donovan in a parking lot. Liev, if you see this, I'm legit sorry, and I owe you a pie."

"'Yeah...it's (whatever the medical term is)...I've had it since I was a kid.' Big pause...nothing. The woman then said, 'So do you play music?' 'Yeah...I was actually in band that played some Bowie songs when I was younger...it was a lot of fun.' Big pause...nothing. The woman then asked to take a picture with him to show her friends, to which Bowie obliges with a *huge grin* on his face, and she thanked him with a 'Wow, people are never going to believe how much you look like David Bowie.'"

"I wasn't happy either. This was the conversation:

And that was it. We were both pissed off."

He's a semi-regular at the coffee shop where I used to work. Never had a normal conversation with him, nor have any of my ex-coworkers."

"I was furious and saw Tom Cruise and was just about to say 'FUCK YOU, TOM CRUISE' when he flashed me a smile, and I was INSTANTLY under his spell, and at that moment I understood what makes some people megastars. I don’t get starstruck at all, but god damn that was the most charismatic smile I’ve ever seen."

"We got up to go back to my apartment. I was pretty tipsy at that point, and I went over to him and said, 'Hey, in Arrested Development when you 'blued yourself,' the scene where Michael Sledge hammered the wall, and your face popped out of the drywall hole, going like, "Are you out of your mind!?" I think that is one of the funniest TV moments in history.'

He just looked at me uncomfortably and said, 'Ha, yeah, thanks.'

I left the bar and had a good rest of the night, but the discomfort of that interaction will stay with me forever."

"My buddy who hosted must have gotten an absolute kick out of this because as soon as the guy left, he pulled me aside and explained that that guy was the actor who played Goku in the ill-fated Dragon Ball Z live-action movie.

The dude probably thought I was fucking roasting him about an incredibly embarrassing project, and it was just that my wires were crossed. I kicked myself for a few days after that. My head nearly exploded when I saw him playing Steve on Shameless US, and I remembered the light psychological torture I put him through. I'm sure he's long since recovered."

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