I Once Kind of Dated a Country Music Star, or How I Almost Fell off a Treadmill
Posted in my life is hilarious on 03/06/2010 12:23 am by NicoleI spent a good part of today installing a nifty GPS thingy on my bike that my friend Matt gave me for The Trip. We had a lot of downtime until the RISE riders arrived, and after watching the exercise-aholics that are my peers on this adventure, I got motivated to use some of the time to workout. So I headed to the workout room at our hotel and hopped on the treadmill.
I don’t usually like to watch TV while exercising, but in this case the treadmill was about 6 inches from a very boring wall. So I frequently glanced up at the television. Being that we’re in Texas, it was no surprise that the TV was tuned to the station that covers Country Music all day, every day. The special was “Top 20 Stars of Country,” and they basically went through and interviewed each of the current top 20 recording artists.
One of the times I glanced up, I was taken rather massively by surprise and quite nearly fell off the treadmill when I recognized the guy being interviewed. No, it wasn’t because he was famous, it’s because I had had a very brief but intense flirtation with him in 2005, while we were both working as Resident Advisors for an arts program. And suddenly here he was, on TV. In the middle of the day. While I’m running on a treadmill. In Texas.
I mean, what? It’s not exactly every day that you randomly see the guy you may or may not have kissed that one time and haven’t thought about in years on national television.
I knew there was a decent chance he’d get famous someday; he already had a few CDs and a publicist when I met him. He was 19 at the time, so there was a lot of potential there. But it came out of the blue to see him on that screen today.
Oh, and according to the interviewer, he was recently voted the most eligible bachelor of country music. Eat your little hearts out, country rock-star admiring teenage girls. I don’t even like country.
