My interest in Joe Biden isn’t just something that happened because of TV.
In the fall of 2007, my dad was coming back to Philly from D.C. He was taking the Amtrak because it’s awesome, even though I can’t ever afford to ride on it. It was kind of a weird hour, like 2:30 in the afternoon, so there weren’t many people on the platform, and eventually my dad noticed that Biden was standing a little ways down waiting for the same train. Biden was reading a newspaper, and my dad says he remembered thinking he looked very dignified until he dropped the newspaper and bent down to pick it up, because that’s when he saw the 6 or 7 inch rip in the seat of Biden’s suit pants.
Dad thought about going over and telling him, but Biden was clearly going back to Wilmington, so it’s not like cameras were going to get him (this was before people were talking about him as a VP candidate).
This explanation makes sense to me, and in any case my dad also realizes that his interactions with celebrities pretty much peaked five years ago, when he peed next to Dennis Rodman in a Las Vegas men’s room and said, while the two of them were peeing, “You were a really great rebounder.”
(Also people know that Biden found his wife in a newspaper ad, right? Like not a personal ad. She was wearing a sweater for Macy’s, or something, and Biden saw the ad and told a staffer to get the model’s number.)
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