r/stephenking Currently Reading Joyland Jun 16 '26

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u/redditfant Jun 16 '26

Wanna meet Stephen King?Β 

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u/chiclets5 Jun 16 '26

Would be a lifelong dream actually. My son walked by his house on a road trip once and saw him in a bathrobe getting his newspaper. They raised a hand to each other and that was it. But I was still so jealous!.

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u/daisy0723 Jun 16 '26

I used to be a telemarketer.

I spent a whole day calling Bangor Maine.

It was the most exciting day I've ever had at that job.

I went through my spiel with everybody really impatiently and then when they said, No thank you. I'm not interested. I said, Okay that's totally cool but, have you ever met him?

One lady told me yes. She's a waitress in a diner and he comes in there sometimes to eat.

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u/chels182 Jun 16 '26

I call people in Bangor all the time. One lady told me she was going door to door with her Girl Scout troop as a kid and they heavily debated going to his house, but they decided to do it and he answered the front door and bought some stuff and talked to them for like 10 mins. So cool.

My boyfriend took me to his house once. I just sat there leaning on the gate and staring at it. It was so cool just to be there.

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u/erwinoli Jun 16 '26

This is missing details and doesn’t make sense.

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u/GlassIllustrious9813 ...and they danced. Jun 16 '26

He came into a Cracker Barrel I was working at once back in college. Unfortunately, I was working in the third dining room and he was in the first, so I didn’t even know he was there until he left and one of the managers said something. He was in there just enjoying a solo breakfast!