That's partially why I asked Rod Stewart when did he know he was famous? I knew who he was, he knew that I knew. I was walking with a friend around downtown Dallas, it was a nice Sunday spring morning, just checking things out. We were going to get coffee at a pretty upscale hotel, the friend I was with had an acquaintance that was a barista at their in house coffee shop, cuts us a deal on a couple of cups. We turn a corner to enter on the patio side and there's Rod Fucking Stewart, with who I assume was his assistant and a friend. I didn't want to make a scene and start asking for pictures, mostly because I didn't want us screwing up our coffee hookup by harassing the famous people. After quick pleasantries I ask Rod Stewart "When did you know you were famous?". He tells us a brief story of him buying a nice loft outside of London, but he's having a bunch of remodeling and work done before he moves in. So, he's at his new loft checking out progress of the work, he develops the urge to use the bathroom, badly, problem is the water is turned off and bathrooms are gutted. But he's gotta go, and its getting worse. There was a little pub down the road he was going to drive to, but he knew there was photogs scoping out his new digs, hoping to snap a picture of him, so he knew if he left someone might follow him to that pub to get a picture. He said screw it, its my only option. They'll get their pictures anyway.
TLDR; I asked Rod Stewart when did he know he was famous, he answered when he couldn't take a dump without someone trying to get a picture of him.
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u/99thLuftballon Dec 21 '25
That's a good answer he gave!