Thanks, Thier!
and GB!
you guys sure know how to make a girl feel welcomed!
okay, here goes:
I saw a listing in the LA times for "best friends week" on the Wheel. So, like any normal person, I called my most intelligent friend. She'd also been my roommate until I was married. I convinced her that it would enhance her acting skills (she was into theater), and away went the application.
One thing that was asked on the app was "what is something unique about you?"
I couldn't think of anything, so intelligent friend reminds me I was married after only knowing the guy 14 days. "oh yeah", I said, "I'd forgotten about that"...
so, we were approved and went to the auditions. It was like a convention for those people that other people like to people-watch. My favorite set of "friends" was a young (I'd say 25) hairdresser and his friend, an 86 year old woman with a walker. There were also folks that scared me ("they'd better put me on that *&@! show or I'll kick the $#^&* out of them!), and folks who were more monatoned than Ben Stein.
so, here comes the naturally caffeinated jkath and itelli-friend. Yes! we can clap! and we can say our answers really really loud! and we can clap some more! (do you know they teach you how to clap? Apparently I graduated from the Wheel school of Clapping.
So we go on the show. Talk about intimidating! There's no such things as a "do-over", unless you're Pat. (who by the way was quite nice) or Vanna (who had made home made gooseberry pies for the whole cast and crew and was also very nice).
So, Pat, with his cuecard in hand that tells him what to say, says "so, I hear you had a whirlwind relationship?" and somehow as I was explaining how I was now married and wasn't living with her (the intellifriend) anymore, it sounded as though I was "with" her first! Pat laughed pretty loud. Pat, the man who shares my polish heritage was laughing at a fellow pole.
They aired that episode on Thanksgiving that year. For about 3 years I was stopped by barely-even-know-you acquaintences with "OMG! you were on wheel! you made pat laugh!"
yep, that's me.
. It's ironic because normally I go nuts for veggies and salad.
Our buddy was on Wheel of Fortune! Did ya win anything? 
