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So, at work today I discovered that a co-worker of mine is a fellow Parrothead. She noticed my wheelcover and we discovered that we are both going to Great Woods on the 6th. Awesome!

That got me thinking about the most surprising person I've found out to was a Parrothead. I think mine was my highschool geometry teacher. I ran into him at a show the summer after I finished his class. Awkward!

Who's your most surprising Parrothead?

I think mine would be my high school global studies teacher. I over heard him talking about how he had been to like 20 some shows and I was totally shocked.

I had worked with this girl for about a year and half and had barely spoken to her. One day I came around the corner and she was wearing a Buffett T-Shirt.

4 years later we were married.

nvrmnd17 wrote:I had worked with this girl for about a year and half and had barely spoken to her. One day I came around the corner and she was wearing a Buffett T-Shirt.

4 years later we were married.

We have a winner!

Ukulady wrote:

nvrmnd17 wrote:I had worked with this girl for about a year and half and had barely spoken to her. One day I came around the corner and she was wearing a Buffett T-Shirt.

4 years later we were married.

We have a winner!

You're right, I can't top that one.........

I haven't been lucky enough to have a close encounter, but I'm sure I've surprised a few people who forget they have a PH license plate frame and they see me throwing up a fin when I pass em up!

Good thread.

As a teenager I played in a rock band. We were actually pretty good for a bunch of high school kids . Anyway, the bass player, Rolin (pronounced Rahlen, as he was very particular about that), was one of my best friends. He was the son of a former Hippy and a classic rock guru at the age of 16. We went to church together, played music together and double-dated girls together.

After high school I lost touch with Rolin (again... pronounced Rahhhhhlennn, not "RŌlin. very important) when he left for Texas A&M and I joined the Coast Guard.

I recently looked him up on Google and found that he's now the public works director for a city here in Texas, so I called him one night. I learned that he had met a girl from Southern Louisiana, proposed to her in Key West at a Dave Matthews concert and that his family regularly vacations on the coast. When I asked if he liked Buffett's music, his reply was simple and strong - "Pat... let me just say that I am umbillicaly connected to the temperate zone".

It's cool how through the years, best friends can lose touch with one another but their lives and interests take similar courses.

Plus, it's nice to know that we still share a brain.

Two years ago, just before the Dallas show (Hoot Island) my boss went to a director's meeting with other senior Navy officers. One of those officers reminded the group that she would be on leave for a few days, and her boss teased her about going to see her "boyfriend." She was single and didn't have a boyfriend, so everyone was a little confused. Except my boss; he put two and two together and said, "So you're going to Dallas, to see Jimmy Buffett." She was pretty surprised until he explained that one of his employees was also headed for Dallas. Needless to say, my phone rang shortly after the meeting...

To make it that much more interesting, she and her daughter were on the lawn, wearing their Red Sox ballcaps. A girl wearing a Yankees ballcap was standing beside them and they started chatting. My friend said they were there from Rhode Island and they had another Rhode Island friend sitting in the pavilion (me). The girl wearing the Yankess cap said that SHE had a Rhode Island friend there, too. The girl in the Yankees cap was none other than our BNer, Karin... Imagine the odds....

I never find out anything. I am just a mushroom.

I seem to be able to find parrotheads just about anywhere...

The Delta representative that was trying to help me book a flight for some concert. When she found out I was a parrothead and had never been to Key West she started looking up flights trying to find me a deal. I think we were on the phone for 1.5 hours..thank goodness it was an 800 number!

The owners of the wine shop near Cannery Row in Monterey.

The owner of the wine shop in Morro Bay.

The couple that opened a Rocky Mountain Choco Factory in the town where I worked. I knew them slightly from school functions but never worked with their kids. Walked into the store one day and they were playing Buffett. Conversation ensued...and they finally figured out that I was the one with FINZSUP on my car that they would see every day in the lot.

The parents of a couple of my students.

And a coworker who was a spaz but I loved her dearly...she was so much fun. We didn't find out we were both parrotheads until a couple years after we had met.

These stand out, but I know there are more.

I ran into my high school choir/band director at the Blossom show a few years back...I was so excited to see him. That concert is probably my favorite of all time because of that encounter with my former teacher. Every show I go to now I hope that maybe Mr. Valley will be there in all his parrothead glory.

A customer (friend of my uncle) asked me what summer plans I had and I said I was going to Chicago and Pittsburgh for a Jimmy Buffett concert. He said my BIL is a member of a club in London that likes Jimmy Buffett. Later that day the BIL came in looking for me but I had gone home. Next day I see this guy in a wild hat kinda looking at me and yet turning away. I see the teeth on the sleeves of his shirt, he is next in line and we met with ........Lori.....Phil . To this day we car pool to meetings, socialize and make wine together. He also lives about 5 blocks from me.

Thank God for phriends.

During the tour when the winners of the hula contest were on stage, at the Woodlands, Jimmy was introducing the winner. He introduced the first winner and our son, Ryan, said---THAT'S MY TEACHER!!!!!!!!
Sure enough, it was.
He talked to her the next day and she had no idea she had students in the audience.

When the school got a new after school director a few years ago, I told I needed a day off to go see Jimmy and it turns out she is a big JB fan too.

Yes, it is nice having a PH boss

Sorry to bore you, but I have one more.

I have an honorable mention.
Went to my first Buffett concert 2 years ago and was wandering around the parking lot absolutely mesmerized by what I saw. Stumbled upon a guy in a paper hospital gown. Got talking, he introduces me to another guy who at the time I didn't remember his name. They were the nicest guys and I now call them good friends.......they are our very own Chippewa and Martyritaville.

Since then they have both opened up the World of Buffett to me and introduced me to lots of BN'rs and awesome people and learned me well.


Can't thank them both enough!

This is fun!

OK here's my story.......

One day a kid came in the clinic and said she didn't feel well.....she had a bad head cold and I told I would call her Dad to come get her. I called the Dad and said "sure...be right there.....tell her I said the weather is here, wish you were beautiful"........after getting up from falling off my chair, we talked for a few.... I have let him know when tickets are on sale and hope to meet him at a concert......

Carolinadreamin' wrote:This is fun!

OK here's my story.......

One day a kid came in the clinic and said she didn't feel well.....she had a bad head cold and I told I would call her Dad to come get her. I called the Dad and said "sure...be right there.....tell her I said the weather is here, wish you were beautiful"........after getting up from falling off my chair, we talked for a few.... I have let him know when tickets are on sale and hope to meet him at a concert......

We really are everywhere

Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time

lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time

Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!

Carolinadreamin' wrote:

lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time

Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!

your own version of yellow stars and red hearts?


just rub some dirt on it, they'll be fine.... ;D

Carolinadreamin' wrote:

lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time

Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!

LOLOLOL too funny