Saw a local celebrity today. Are celebs/extroverts weird or what?!1

She has been doing the local news for 25-30 years. I remember when she first started out, when they had her doing the dawn news, and sometimes she wore the same dress twice in a week. She used to be known as a partier, and has been married three times. She hyphenated her maiden and first spouse's surnames for awhile, then She kept the middle spouse's surname professionally long into her current marriage, probably for the sound or prestige, but lately has stripped it all down to the current spouse's surname.

Anyway, I was pushing my cart through the grocery store, in the dude-crouch position, so my line of vision was sort of down. I was on the starboard side of the aisle ("right" side to non-swabbies) when this cart from the other side crossed over and almost bumped me. When I looked up she immediately said, "Excuse me, sir," and I was pretty sure it was her but didn't react.

As an introvert, I tend to think other people don't want their privacy invaded, but it sure looked to me that she WANTED to be noticed.

Finally, after doing the whole store, at the checkout, I ended up in the lane next to hers. She was already checked out and apparently had been chatting with everybody in her line, and she said, "Bye, guys!1"

Another time, many years ago, there was this woman who did local commercials for a furniture store. They were "cute" and well commented on, each one a cutesy little gem. When she was in a restaurant one time, she was sitting in the middle of the room, with her lunch partner seated to one side (the celeb was unobstructed for EVERYBODY to see), and she was sitting straight and looking at everybody coming in, apparently feeding off of the looks of recognition.


Once I saw the actor who played grampa on the Munsters doing a workshop. He talked "normally," conversationally to the audience, explaining this or that, but then, when he acted out the example, he would SNAP into his character/mindset. The girl sitting next to me said, "Actors are weird."


Or are we introverts equally weird?!1

Everybody's weird in their own particular way, I think...

Celebs want to be noticed, hence their behavior!

Introverts tend to not want to be noticed...so they move around cautiously, and try to stay out of the limelight, just as you did...

It's just how everybody's wired...

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I met a long time news anchor here a few years ago when I worked in retail. She looked a lot different without her makeup. But she was really nice. I wasn't even sure it was her until I got her credit card for a charge. Really down to earth.:)

I used to work at a local news station, and the "talent" there ran the gamut from egotistical assholes to insecure "please love me" types to genuine salt-o'-the-earth fantastic people. But yeah, the celeb culture does tend to have a certain extra amount of "look at me" types--hence their need for fame.

About 15 years ago, when I was in grad school, I went home a lot to visit an uncle who was very sick with cancer. My return flight was always the same Monday midmorning USAir flight populated with a lot of power-suit-and-laptop (before laptops were common)-day-traveling business types. Anyway, one time I was on the plane and a local (but nationally famous) rock star got on at the last minute. He stood in the aisle in first class for quite some time, glancing around, hoping to be noticed, and of course he spotted me (the only twentysomething female among all those corporate types) and expected me to get all excited that he was there. I glanced up once--and went back to my book. Never liked his music and I wasn't about to start lying about it to massage his ego.
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He most definitely did NOT want the attention.