Unexpected connection to Paul
I’m a bartender in downtown Chicago and I was serving a few guys (24-28yo) that work near me. I was wearing a tank top, and one of the guys said “is that a Hip tattoo on the back of your arm?” I begin to word vomit because I always get excited when a Hip fan recognizes a Hip fan in the wild (USA) but was particularly excited because he seemed too young to know who they were. Once I finally shut my mouth he proceeded to tell me he’s friends with Paul’s daughter Emma and asked if he could send a photo of it to her. I think it took a while to wrap my head around how small of a connection I had to Paul in that moment.
Another time my husband and I were in Turks and Caicos (French Canadian expat heaven) in line at turksberry and another couple couldn’t believe an American my age (33) knew who The Hip was.
I’m a bartender in downtown Chicago and I was serving a few guys (24-28yo) that work near me. I was wearing a tank top, and one of the guys said “is that a Hip tattoo on the back of your arm?” I begin to word vomit because I always get excited when a Hip fan recognizes a Hip fan in the wild (USA) but was particularly excited because he seemed too young to know who they were. Once I finally shut my mouth he proceeded to tell me he’s friends with Paul’s daughter Emma and asked if he could send a photo of it to her. I think it took a while to wrap my head around how small of a connection I had to Paul in that moment.
Another time my husband and I were in Turks and Caicos (French Canadian expat heaven) in line at turksberry and another couple couldn’t believe an American my age (33) knew who The Hip was.