Yesterday, after I dropped Grace off at her home, I needed to get to the airport fast. It was almost 4:30pm and traffic was bad. I thought I would take short cut #3 that cuts through the back of the little mexican market. As I went around the corner and in to the parking lot... a lovely Rolls Royce. When I saw the plate, 1 POUPON, I thought of the television ad where the man in the limousine asks "Pardon me, do you have any GREY POUPON?" Just then a very attractive, and charming man came up to the Rolls. I asked, " Is that like the commercial, and can I take a picture of it?" He said, "Yes." By then I had two cars behind me. He said, "Hold on." From the car he gets a bottle of GREY POUPON !!! And poses for me. By then I had a parade of cars in back of my taxi, and I had to get to the port, so I told him thanks and drove off without learning his name!
It may have been actor Ian Richardson.
Why in Willow Glen at the little market? Will I ever know?
Similar to British countrymen and great thespians John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, although a generation later, Ian Richardson has made more of an enduring career in classical theater and BBC television than in films, although in later years he has gravitated toward the latter. Little did he expect it, but his most memorable (and frequently parodied) role may have been as the limousine occupant who asks, "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" in that popular television ad. His dignified countenance and locutions have brought him frequent casting as men of education and refinement.
I got my first computer early in the Summer of 2004, and began blogging almost immediately. Thanks to blogging I have been a part of several newspapers and online blogs. By that August I was featured in the lead story of the Tech Section in the San José Mercury News. Then what a pleasant surprise it was to find that my blog, "Taxi Vignettes" was the reason I was chosen as the best local blogger of the year (2006) by the Metro Newspaper. Fall of '06, I was contacted by a reporter, asking if I would be willing to be the topic of her next story in The Willow Glen Resident. It was a cool two pages including photos. Am I having fun yet?
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