At Matt Groening’s ATP I was really excited to see him wandering around by the main stage just before Deerhunter played. The Simpsons had been my favourite TV show since I was about 6 so this was a big deal for me. Saw he was talking to a small group of people so tried to politely (as polite as 10am drunk can be) jump in and ask for an autograph while the opportunity presented itself.
He looked at me with utter contempt, said “yeah you can join the queue though” and then pointed behind me to the line of about five hundred people who had been patiently waiting for him to sit down at the signing table I’d walked straight past.
Bonus embarrassment: The people he was talking to were the Boredoms and Zach Hill.
Never meet your heroes, you’ll only see what a prick you are reflected back at you.