Weird LA Moments

I remember the first "famous" person I saw in LA.  It was the summer of my internships and I passed the hot guy from "Mean Girls" as I drove to the Grove.  He's not even significant enough for me to know his name (or for me look it up on imdb right now), but I was thrilled by this sighting.  Almost three years and countless celeb sightings later, the novelty of this has definitely worn off.  I don't mean to sound jaded; celebrity sightings are just very common out here.  It's strange if I go a week or two WITHOUT seeing someone famous.  There are a few people who have made me truly star struck (Meryl Streep and Taylor Kitsch... swoooon!); others just aren't very noteworthy; and others are just weird "LA moments" that make me laugh to myself.  

I had one of these weird LA moments recently as I was meeting a friend at my favorite coffee shop, Bricks and Scones, in quaint Larchmont Village.  Parking was particularly sparse that night, so I had to park far down the street. My friend was running a tad late, so I sat in my car and caught up with my darling Kayla on the phone.  There were two men chatting at a table in front of the Starbucks where I was I parked, which must have been closing because shortly thereafter, a barista came outside and asked them to move.  They then relocated and continued their conversation directly in front of my car.  I thought nothing of this at all, but as I got out to walk to Bricks and Scones, I heard a familiar voice... sure enough, this is who I saw standing before me: 

George Costanza from Seinfeld
(aka Jason Alexander)

My dad (whom I affectionally call "PJ" which is short for "Papa John") LOOOVES Seinfeld.  He literally watches this show every single day when he gets home from work, I think. He's probably seen every single episode of the 8-year series numerous times. As such, the funny and neurotic character of George Costanza was a regular fixture of my youth.  Something about seeing him the other night was just so funny and weird to me. One of those moments that made me chuckle to myself and say, "...only in LA..." ha.

The only that would have made this funny sighting even funnier and better is if PJ would have been there to experience it with me.(But let's be honest, I think he's rather content experiencing George Costanza from his comfy couch instead). ;-)

-at