So after blogging about the fact that I never bump into channel 7 news personnel, I bumped into 2 this week! But, neither of them were around the Rosslyn Channel 7 "nerve center."

Yesterday when out to lunch around Clarendon, I walk right into who I assume is Pamela Brown after perusing the channel 7 website. I guess they were out doing a story about the ice or something, because my friend shouts out to her, "interview him!" and points at me, while we're making a bee line to the Baja Fresh.

Then tonight, my wife and I were out to a nice quiet dinner at one of our regular spots, Arucola, when suddenly after finishing my apple strudel, I see Gordon Peterson right in front of our table! I lean discretely over to my wife to tell her and she's like, "oh." Come on! Its a local celebrity! She tells me if it was Brad Pitt, then maybe she'd be a little excited. I get all giddy and she tells me to take a photo, then I tell her I'd rather not. I recall cajoling an acquaintance once to go say hi to WTOP's man about town, Bob Maddigan, and she walked away freaking out Mr. Maddigan. Then again, my wife's like, "so you can go up and tell Topher Grace that you're a big fan but you can't whip out your camera phone?"

Of course, my wife had no idea that we were sitting next to the real life Ron Burgandy. I mean, he's been in the business back when anchormen meant something. I didn't want to bother the man though, seeing how he probably just got off of work and wanted to have a quiet dinner with his wife(?) and friends. So I ended up taking a paparazzi photo. As you can see, my wife's skeptical shoulder is in view. In fact, while we walked out, she was like, "does he do the weather?" After calling me the biggest dork in the world, she then followed it up with, "if you get this excited about someone like Gordon Peterson, what's gonna happen if you run into Alison Starling?"