Meeting Jared Padalecki was one of the more ideal stories I have to tell about meeting celebrities. I met him at a non-"Supernatural" sanctioned signing at the 2009 New York Comic-Con and waited to meet him from the time the doors opened that morning on the final day of the three-day event at 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.
It was a free signing and of course, I was the one guy who started the line that would grow so large that it went on to stretch out of the top floor of the Jacob Javits Center all the way to the escalator area downstairs in the lobby which is located on the complete other side of the building; a problem which prompted what originally was scheduled as an unlimited signing to be capped off after several hundred people caught wind of the "Supernatural" star's appearance at the event.
The series was in it's fourth season at the time and it was the first cycle of the show to receive overwhelming critical acclaim, so that's been my hypothesis all these years for why the line grew so long in only minutes of it's announcement. However, when the time came: Jared didn't disappoint. He was a class act and he was on time contrary to the many other people of his fame status who I've met and turned out to be complete dicks like Michael Biehn, Simone Bianchi, and Neal Adams.
I was the first to meet Jared that day out of hundreds of other fans and he ended up going out of his way to take a photo with me and to sign my copies of the first three seasons of his show - my all-time favorite TV series ever - even over the objections from one of his handlers who reminded him numerous times of the signing's no-photo and single autograph policies.
That really meant alot to me. And at the risk of doing what I claim to hate which is celebrity-worshipping, I thought it would be cool to put this story of mine out there into the world, now that I've gained a small fanbase myself on the internet, to show that no matter what: We can choose to be kind human beings, even when others try their hardest to keep us from doing what we feel is objectively right. Even under pressure, we always have a choice.
That experience is my standard-bearer for sure. Thanks, Jared.
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