Results tagged “flight” from Debi's Journal

Living in the Los Angeles area provides many opportunities for regular people like me to catch a view of the occasional celebrity. For instance, when I was in the 6th grade my family went to Magic Mountain, a southern California amusement park (which is a Six Flags now, but wasn't at the time). I became carsick during the trip, and felt nauseous the whole day. When my family was in line for a rollercoaster ride, some people approached my dad and asked if they could put me in the front car, because they were filming some shots for a tv show. I was feeling like crap and basically told my dad, "I dun wanna." I found out later that not only would I have been seated in front of LeVar Burton, I would have been in the opening clip of the latest "Battle of the Network Stars." Some other couple of kids got the half-second glory of being televised across the nation instead. Stupid decisions would be the story of my life, but then I made up for this later in life by my half-second close-up on national television on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

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