MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Not disastrous, but...
Was at The Melting Pot with my wife for dinner about two years ago or so. I am usually pretty easy going, cracking jokes with people, etc.
We had a server that we had a few times before while eating there. When she asks us if we are celebrating anything special tonight, I replied that I was just taking my mistress out on a date and not to tell my wife. Because of our good relationship with this server, she just cracks up and replies back with something witty. This continues throughout the night with us and the server just joking around.
While we were waiting for the dessert part to come out, the table next to us gets up to leave and a guy comes over and says that one of the other guys from the table wants to meet my wife and I outside. I had this look like "no way am I meeting anyone outside" and the guy mentioned that it was cool and not to worry. Our server had come over and said, "don't worry, it's fine".
We walk outside and see this guy from the table (hat, untucked shirt, jeans) next to a column. He sees us and just busts out laughing. The rest of his party was probably 25 feet away or so.
He says to us "You guys are freaking hilarious. You had us cracking up all night with the sh*t you were saying. I almost spit out my food with the comment about the mistress." My wife commented that I am like that with everyone and that I like to see people laugh and smile.
Someone from The Melting Pot had come out side by this point and were standing near the entrance to this restaurant. I am thinking they are just making sure everything is okay.
The guy asks us our name and we tell him. As I am shaking his hand, he replies with "Nice to meet you guys, I am Justin Timberlake." He removes his hat and I am like "Yeah, okay, whatever". His buddy comes up and says that it really is him and, meanwhile, Timberlake pulls out his "black card" with his name on it.
The lady from the Melting Pot comes over with a camera and he asks if we want a picture with him. My wife, of course, says yes. After a couple of pics with him and his party, the lady goes inside and Timberlake mentions that they need to get going due to some other plans. As we are parting ways, he mentions again "thanks for the entertainment tonight" and we walk away.
Right about the time we are getting ready to open the door to go back in, we hear someone yell "Hey". We turn around and, as he is about to get into his (or someones Bentley), Timberlake says "I took care of your meal. Enjoy." He gets in the car and closes the door.
Dessert and our server are waiting for us back at our table. The Melting Pot had printed out the pics for us to take and the server mentioned how Timberlake didn't want to make a big scene doing the pics with him and his party while in the restaurant. She said management was in on the whole thing and how he had one of the people in his party get the approval from a manager to talk to us outside.
Still never figured out why he was in town. I heard from others he was in town to do some stuff with Missy Elliott, Timberland and the Neptunes.