What is an interesting story you have that involves a celebrity?

I use to work out in a gym when I was teen in the mid 2000s’. One of the patron’s was the Iron Sheik . I would imagine the character would be separate from the real person, but not the case with the Sheik. I can still remember his smell to this day as I was pumping my weenie arms on the curl machine. He walks by a must of sweat and cologne encompassing any area 30 ft from him. He still wore the head scarf, but not as exaggerate in the picture. It cane down to the top of his neck. Me and my high school buddies were enamored with him, having grown up in the wcw era and loving all things new and old with wrestling.

We got the guts to ask him one day if our inclinations were true, was he the real iron Sheik (like there was any doubt). As soon as we say those words he pulls out a picture of himself from his zubazz pants and starts asking me what my name was. I said Josh, and he quickly signs his name with his pen he carries and hands me the picture. It says Joss, but now worries as I got more than I bargained for getting a picture and a signature from the Sheik. After handing me the photo he starts asking me for money in his thick foreign accent, no different from the accent he portrays on tv. It was an awkward situation, but I dig around in my gym shorts to hand him all that I had 3 bucks. Looking dissatisfied, but hell he will take it I got to keep the picture.

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