Post by Caglar13 on Nov 27, 2007 9:04:40 GMT -5
I happened to be in Roanoke last night (where Smackdown and ECW will be tonight) because my girlfriend had to do an observation at a hospital for one of her classes. We ate, I dropped her off at Roanoke memorial and decided I would make a trip over to Best Buy and the mall to see what all they had. I'm in Best Buy walking towards the checkouts when I happened to look over at the cd new release section and see Edge standing there.
Surprisingly no one is around him. I decide to go talk to him. Really friendly guy, typical "how ya doin?" "nice to see you guys back here" type conversation. I checkout and as I'm walking back to the car, I decide that I need to take the chance and try to get an autograph. Luckily, I brought my Jericho book to read while I was waiting on her to get out of her observation. I grab the book, go back inside looking to see where he may have gone, and over in the video game section I spot Edge but now Tommy Dreamer is standing right beside him. Then as I'm making my way in their direction I spot Elijah Burke. (At this point, on the inside I'm marking like a 4 year old)
I went up to Elijah first and asked him if he wouldn't mind signing my book and he said "No problem." I then asked him "How many of you guys are in here?" to which he responded "Who else is in here?" I tell him about Edge and Dreamer being over in the video game section, he signs my book, I thank him.
Edge and Dreamer are now playing Guitar Hero. I walk up and ask them both if they wouldn't mind signing the book. I hand it to Edge as Tommy is trying to figure out what buttons to hit. "Red, Yellow, Green, Yell... F**k!" After failing the song Tommy takes my book, signs it and tells me he thought about writing a book but the E would censor it too much, "Maybe when I'm done." he said.
I know that was a little long, and I left out a lot of detail, but it was really cool just unexpectingly running into these guys. I was more worried about bothering them than anything else, but I'm glad I did it.
Here's a picture of it. Gotta love "My books' better" comment by Edge.
Surprisingly no one is around him. I decide to go talk to him. Really friendly guy, typical "how ya doin?" "nice to see you guys back here" type conversation. I checkout and as I'm walking back to the car, I decide that I need to take the chance and try to get an autograph. Luckily, I brought my Jericho book to read while I was waiting on her to get out of her observation. I grab the book, go back inside looking to see where he may have gone, and over in the video game section I spot Edge but now Tommy Dreamer is standing right beside him. Then as I'm making my way in their direction I spot Elijah Burke. (At this point, on the inside I'm marking like a 4 year old)
I went up to Elijah first and asked him if he wouldn't mind signing my book and he said "No problem." I then asked him "How many of you guys are in here?" to which he responded "Who else is in here?" I tell him about Edge and Dreamer being over in the video game section, he signs my book, I thank him.
Edge and Dreamer are now playing Guitar Hero. I walk up and ask them both if they wouldn't mind signing the book. I hand it to Edge as Tommy is trying to figure out what buttons to hit. "Red, Yellow, Green, Yell... F**k!" After failing the song Tommy takes my book, signs it and tells me he thought about writing a book but the E would censor it too much, "Maybe when I'm done." he said.
I know that was a little long, and I left out a lot of detail, but it was really cool just unexpectingly running into these guys. I was more worried about bothering them than anything else, but I'm glad I did it.
Here's a picture of it. Gotta love "My books' better" comment by Edge.