Today, as I was talking Napoleon out for a walk, someone shouted at me across the complex “HEY, RENO 911 SEATTLE!!!”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
I did a double-take. Then a triple-take.<\/p>\n
Surely, I had heard wrong. <\/p>\n
Someone had shouted something else entirely, and not at me, but at random. There are kids playing all around in the sunshine. All sorts of people are yelling things.<\/p>\n
SURELY, I had heard wrong.<\/p>\n
A few seconds later…<\/p>\n
“HEY, RENO 911 SEATTLE!!! DEPUTY MELISSA!”<\/p>\n
Holy shit, you guys. Someone recognized me from the youtube video. From the youtube video that has had less than 35,000 views, TOTAL. Although I still enjoy it when some stranger approaches me and says “Hey, you’re that robot chick!”, *this* is alltogether on a different level.<\/p>\n
I ended up going and chatting with this woman for a while, she said she had stumbled across the video randomly and thought she had recognized me from the apartment complex. We drank some coffee and ended up talking and laughing for a few hours–who would have thought that this little 10 minute video my friends and I made in February would still be getting hits and attention this long? <\/p>\n
Internet Famous, people. Internet Famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, as I was talking Napoleon out for a walk, someone shouted at me across the complex “HEY, RENO 911 SEATTLE!!!” … I did a double-take. Then a triple-take. Surely, I had heard wrong. Someone had shouted something else entirely, and not at me, but at random. There are kids playing all around in the… Continue reading