About a month ago, as I was sitting in the gate area at LaGuardia waiting to fly home, I saw a really short, bald guy who looked familiar. Not familiar like “Hey, I know that guy from high school”, but more of a “I think that guy’s sort of famous, where have I seen him” sort of familiarity.
After looking a bit harder, I finally realized that he was one of those classic That Guy actors whose face I’d seen a million times and whose name I had never learned. All I could remember about him were two things:
- He talked with a lisp, and
- He once made my father laugh until he cried
The Everyman Blog 