Friday 15 January 2016

Another Fun Fact You Might Not Know About Me... #11

I once literally bumped into Chuck Norris.

Yes, you read that right... I physically careened into Chuck "I'll-kill-you-with-the-fist-hidden-in-my-beard" Norris.

Way, way back in the day, when I was about 15 years old, I was in town with my friends in search of shopping, ice-cream, autographs of visiting international and local stars who were attending the annual Logie Awards, and more shopping, when a friend and I agreed to go in separate directions for half an hour and meet up roughly where we were, but as I gave the final bit of confirmation that I did, indeed, know exactly where and when we would reconnect, I was (foolishly) taking a few steps backwards, as if to end the conversation by expressing the urgency of my moving in that particular direction!

I moved right to the foot of a "downward-moving" escalator.

Church Norris was on that escalator.

He had nowhere to step off but into me!!!

I literally bumped into the actual, living being of Chuck Norris...

And I lived to te-