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I think I just snubbed Rahm Emanuel.

I didn't mean to do it. I was walking to the train, and my foot was aching from the cut and I had a headache and my headphones in and there was this guy, standing in the El station. When he saw me he came forward, smiling, hand outstretched.

Now, when a stranger does this to you in a public place in Chicago, generally they're either trying to get you to sign something or buy something. And while I am all in favour of signing things and buying things, there's usually an interminable sales pitch first.

I just wanted to get to my train.

So I did what I always do: I gave him a friendly smile and shook my head and darted around him.

About two feet past him, as I was carding into the station, I thought, huh, he looked familiar. I'm a little faceblind, otherwise I'd probably know whether or not it was, actually, Rahm Emanuel. But I think it was. He does the train-meet-and-greet thing a lot.

I'M SORRY, MR. EMANUEL. We'll do lunch, right?

The amount of facepalm, you guys...

Comments

[bicrim.livejournal.com]

Was he as hot in real life as he is on TV?

Only you, Sam, would pass up an opportunity to ask him what he thinks of RPS, lol.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

He's super short, I'll tell you that much. Seemed like a nice guy, just...I wanted my train!

[shezan.livejournal.com]

HahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I'm sure he snubbed a lot of people in his life. COSMIC KARMA, HAND-DELIVERED BY SAM!!!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL, dude, if he tries to do handshaking during rush hour, I'm sure I'm not the first to snub him.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my era of miscommunication continues.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You should have said 'Sorry, dude, I'm on my way to MAILCOM!'

(Still flying high on Mailcom...)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

GOIN TO MAILCOM, NO TIME TO CHAT!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, he's in the papers a lot here, he's runnin' for mayor.

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

He does this a lot? That's so... odd.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, he's running for mayor. Pressin' the flesh. :D

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

Rule number one of city life, don't make eye contact with the crazy people...

[eskanto]

my boyfriend greatly dislikes the guy for political reasons, and will be amused by this. mind if I tell him? XD

I LOLed, though.

also, re: your previous entries, I read MAILCOM as MALCOLM, and Escalate(d) as Eschaton. Where is my head today, srsly? Some bizarre place.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL, sure, no reason to keep it a secret. :D

[kaesa.livejournal.com]

I think I did the same with Giannoulias over my lunch break just before the election. Crowd of people, Some Guy wanting to talk, and I'm just like EXCUSE ME SORRY COMING THROUGH NEED FOOD.

[equusregia.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing to Sean Connery once. Pass him without noticing, I mean, since he wasn't trying to shake my hand or anything. I was in St. Andrews. Scotland during some big golf tournament, and I was desperate to find a place to stay. This isn't usually difficult, but I hadn't factored for the aforementioned big golf tournament. I crossed the street to try one last place, and wondered why the desk guy was hanging out the front door. When I got to him, he said, "You just walked past Sean Connery." I remembered an old man in a standard tweed outfit, but he just didn't register because I was so focused on not sleeping on the street.

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

*grins widely*

Symmetry

[james eastwood (from livejournal.com)]

I like to imagine that Rahm Emanuel is sitting down with one of his staffers this evening saying,

"I think I just got snubbed by [censored] Sam Starbuck."

Re: Symmetry

[itcamefromjapan.livejournal.com]

This has to be true. HAS TO BE. :D

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

Me: Do you know who Rahm Emanuel is?

Husband: Who?

Me: Rahm Emanuel. Some public figure.

Husband: No idea. Sounds familiar though.

Me: *scrolls down* Ooh, I know why his name sounds familiar!

Husband: Why?

Me: I think I've seen him slashed with Barack Obama.

Husband: Yeah that's not what I mean when I said he sounds familiar.

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

OMG! I'm jealous. :O The opportunity to be sweet-talked by Rahm Emanuel does not come every day, you know.

[meran-flash.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, Rahm Emanuel probably deserved it.

[bluebombardier.livejournal.com]

Better get your sushi knives ready. Dead fish delivery imminent.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Why do people keep mentioning dead fish? Does he have a habit of sending people fish or something?

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious! Your life is just one nutty thing after another.

However, I wonder how a politician can think that he's actually going to get any votes by trying to stop people when they are trying to get to their trains and go home.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

I would have thought it was a sure fire way to lose them, me.

Of course, I'm the super-bitch that told my local MP that if he did not remove himself from my personal space pronto I would report him for harassment, because you do not win votes by pouncing on people in the street and refusing to let go of their hand until you're done your spiel, really.

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

...was he hot?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

You know, here's the thing, I got home and googled him so I could remember what he looked like, and while I won't make a definitive statement on his objective hotness, he looks way nicer in person than in his pictures.

[mcgonagalls-cat.livejournal.com]

Ummm....

First Sam is invited to a luncheon with W, then a few hours later Rahm Emanuel is waiting to shake his hand...

Who ARE you, Sam? Or would it be more pertinent to ask What did you do?

(And are we now in danger because we post on your LJ? Is the CIA tracing this? Should we be acquiring fake documents and thinking of places without extradition?)


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[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

IXNAY ON THE EEIA-SAY!

Maybe I'm Barack Obama. You never know. (I'm not.)

[wylah.livejournal.com]

However, I wonder how a politician can think that he's actually going to get any votes by trying to stop people when they are trying to get to their trains and go home.

That was my first thought, too. Politicians in general are a necessary evil, but when they start getting in your way physically, as well as being a pain in the arse from a distance, then it's time for a snubbin'! (/Clint Eastwood accent)

[wylah.livejournal.com]

... aaand HTML fail strikes again. Le sigh.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

I once snubbed Prince Philip. It was an accident - I didn't see him and walked straight past! - but it's still a great claim to fame :-) xxx

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Wondering how likely it would be for one of his staffers to come across this LJ entry, I decided to try my Google-fu. It doesn't pop up on the first page if you Google his name (naturally), but if one adds "Livejournal" to the search*, it pops up as #6.

*And given that Rahm has a LJ of his own, they just might include it when Googling him.

So, Mr. Emanuel has read your apology and would accept your lunch invitation if it weren't for your SUPER SEKRIT IDENTITY.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, when he leaves a comment to the effect of my apology being accepted, I will set up a lunch date with him.

I had no idea he had an LJ! What a savvy gentleman he must be.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Had to google who the heck Rahm Emanuel was... and dude, I'd have walked past him too. He looks like a freaking car salesman! [or someone likely to want to have earnest words with you about Jesus.]

[midgetgems.livejournal.com]

I walked past Eddie Izzard! Well, I stood still while he jogged past me when he was doing the whole bazillion marathons thing thinking 'man, that guy looks like Eddie Izzard...'

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Rahm is (Swiss) German for cream.

I would find it hard having a mayor called Cream Emanuel. It sounds like a French dessert. "Puis j'avoir la tarte Tatin, Coralie voudrait un clafoutis et pour Maman crème Emanuel stp."

Nearly posted this with an icon professing German-speaking skillz. Huh. Multilingual perhaps more apt.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Emanuel is a Hebrew name for Jesus, isn't it?

So he's Cream Jesus.

Wow.

[luxanebulis.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Emanuel's (presumably fake) Twitter account? It makes me laugh so much every day.

http://twitter.com/mayoremanuel

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

OMG. LOL ENDLESS.