who is the most interesting person you have met and why?

Answer 1

Vincent Price.

He was touring his one man show and I was a stagehand at the time. Before the show we sat in the Green Room and chatted about life and theater and cooking. He'd just published a cook book and was excited about it.
Very cool guy and open to visiting with me! I was kind of in awe but quickly was made comfortable and I think we both enjoyed the entire converstation.

Answer 2

Rob Zombie: Came into a place where I worked while he was on tour. He was very quiet and bought a bunch of stuff. Gave me an autograph.

This strange old hippie couple in Pennsylvania: I was camping at some hippie gathering in the mountains one summer and met two older homeless people. They were really nice.

Answer 3

I've met quite a few interesting people. I've been a journalist; so that's put me in touch with a lot of different people. But the most interesting person I've known was not someone through journalism but through family connections. He was the brother of my aunt (not directly related) and was at the time a multi-millionaire oil man. (His son later became a billionaire on his father's fortune.) This was a man who was at once simple and complicated. His fortune had been built on risk in a business where risk is usual but never thought too much about; at least in the era that he started in it.

He asked for and got his inheritance from his father early and drilled his first hole. He hit oil and it was good from there; not without boom to broke times, but always gaining on lady fortune. When I knew him, and as a friend of my father's, we'd go deep sea fishing together. He enjoyed the company more than the sport, I think. Years later, I found myself in Denver. I couldn't find a job; so I contacted an uncle in North Dakota offering to help on the farm for room and board. My father called this oil man, and he called me at my hotel. Denver was the headquarters of his corporations, and he had a home there on the upper floor of a near downtown high-rise condominium. He asked me to spend a week with he and his wife. Dad said it was okay with my uncle; so I did so. Mr. Ash's (a pseudonym) wife was a lovely, demur woman, who was gracious in every way to me, a twenty-year-old vagabond. I was treated with every consideration as if a member of the family. Mr. Ash called my Dad and talked for what seemed an hour catching up on my family and things in the resort city I lived where he often spent months in the winter.

One incident I'll never forget was when we went up to the mountains to the Ash's ranch high in the Rockies above Denver, Mr. Ash wanted to go out on his lake in the rowboat. He had heart problems and really couldn't take the altitude there well. So I rowed him on this small lake while he kept a cylinder of oxygen handy. Unused to oars, my hands got a little red, but I rowed Mr. Ash as long as he wanted that crisp high mountain day in May. He and his wife saw me off on the airplane to Bismarck. The last I heard about Mr. Ash was from my dad who said the oilman called him from his corporate jet which was passing overhead coming from Miami, where he lived part-time then.

Answer 4

I was most fortunate to meet former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark at one point when I was younger. Poor Mr. Clark always seemed befuddled in parliament but meeting him one on one I realized what a truly caring and intelligent man he was and still is . He was never given a real chance to be Prime Minister with Brian Mulroney breathing down his back.

Answer 5

I met a man that was a victim of the Holocaust. He told me about his family, some of whom did not survive. He told me about how he had joined the resistance during WWII. He was the gentlest soul, and he had so much forgiveness towards his captures. He was an inspiration, he was able to overcome such horrendous experiences and remain positive. He was amazing.

Answer 6

And who are you? Just kiddin'. I guess my history teacher is the most interesting person i've ever met. He taught so well, so understandable, so funny, so good-looking. He's the man!

Answer 7

Well, the ever friendly and loving Austrian Ambassador. Although she was no longer posted here in our country, we still communicate. She's a nice lady to treasure.

Answer 8

An attorney named Verdell. She is outlandishly dressed, a wild thinker, and always has the most crazy (yet true) stories to tell!

Answer 9

I can't think of anyone - how sad! I will be on the "look out" for someone interesting now. I hope it will be an interesting adventure. Wishing you an interesting day.

Answer 10

She is the most interesting person for me because I can share my feelings with her more freely and we feel ourselves as one unit.