Subject:  As Fate Would Have it |
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Date Posted: 13:50:30 11/12/02 Tue
WM 18 was in Toronto last this year, the first WM here in over 10 years so needless to say I was excited. With WM 18 comes Axxess, an event for the fans where you go to meet wrestlers. Now what they show on TV is Axxess and what actually happens at Axxess is quite a differnt story. On TV they show you meeting a very long table of wrestlers and you walk along the tables getting autographs and talking to the differnt superstarts. Now at least at this particular Axxess it was very different. The way that they arranged it is there are 6 separate autograph locations located at 6 different locations, very distant from each other. Each hour and a half a new wrestler would appear at these locations, you don't know which one at which location, your guess was as good as any. This was of course very discouraging because as your in line you see for instance Maven come out and at that same moment you hear from across the building fans screaming "HOGAN" from across the building and you instantly kick yourself for getting in what you consider the wrong line. I guess this would be someones strategy of controlling thousands of people in a building that could barely contain them. This as any fan would agree is a terrible set up for someone that pays 40 dollars per ticket, each ticket lasts only about 3-4 hours, which really means you will at most get 2 autographs per session, there are 4 sessions so a maximum of 8 autographs if you pay 120 to go to all and have that much time availble. Lucky for me, i do. The reason i did is I was desperately hoping Shawn would be there, the chances were slim but as with many fans it had been a longtime dream. So I went each session with little luck no shawn to be anywhere, got other autographs and such, but not what I really came for. Near the end of the session I was walking past one of the autograph sessions when I see a pretty massive line so I attempt to join it when the guard of that section tells me its closed of. Not to surprised because it was closing soon I casually ask who is there signing autographs? And he replies very non-chalantly "Shawn Michaels". My jaw drops, my stomach drops to the floor it was instantly one of the worst feelings in my life. Like any true HBK fan I explain to the large guard that he doesn't understand, that Shawn Michaels is the whole reason I came her, that I have been waiting for this moment for most of my life and that I really, really need to meet him. And of course the reply came "Ya sure, like everyone else". It was apparent he wasn't a huge HBK fan and to my detriment he wasnt going to let me pass. Uncontrollable the tears came the most painful moment a fan could endure, steps away from the most incredible wrestler to walk on the face of this earth and this was as close as I was going to get. I couldn't even get a glimpse of him over the crowd. "Can I just go to the side of the crowd and get a distant picture" I pleaded in hopes of seeing the man who had been gone from wrestling for so long. A simple "No" looking straight a head replied the guard...when I got home 2h later I was still crying, my sisters didn't know what had happended to me. When I explained they encouraged me that maybe tomorrow he would be there. The chance of that was slim to none, I simply went to bed drained and traumatized. The next day I go and would u believe it, he didn't show at ANY other autograph sessions. I didn't get an autograph from my favorit wrestler of all time....were you hoping for a happy ending??? Well ok I've been holding out on you. Turns out that though he was NOT at any of the autograph sessions as I was walking through the crowd to get in line to a diff autograph session I heard someone say his name. Again my heart dropped and like a true psycho I grabbed the person by the shirt and demanded "WHERE IS HE??" All the startled fan could do was point in the general direction, and as so as I had appeared I was off, dashing to the fingered location when I ended up at a baseball cage???? Well just not any baseball cage, a baseball cage with none other then the Heart Break Kid in it. He was not signing autographs but for 10 a peice FOR CHARITY he was taking pictures with the fans. I dashed into the line, it was pretty long, there was a good chance that I might get cut off before I got to him. So obviously as Im in line Im taking picture after picture him, with other fans,when he had a minute alone waiting for another fan...anything I could get. Finally I pass the red line, I am NOT getting cut off, my heart is pounding, smile stetched to its limits on my face. Im watching him as other fans meet him, as some of u might also have once feared before meeting your superstar, I had always feard what if I met him and he wasn't nice (because its happened with other wrestlers already)? But as I watched he not only was he nice he was so incredibly sweet. When someone little came to meet him he would lean down and touch their back listening intently as teh spoke, shaking hands, and yes even giving hugs to those who requested dispite the camera operators who wanted to rush through it all. Finally it was my turn. I think to myself "what do you say to someone you have been waiting half your life to meet? What do you say to Shawn Micheals?". It almost seems a blur thats how nervous I was. I simply said "I know you must hear this all the time but you are my absolute favorite wrestler", he smiled and thanked me, the camera people were motioning me to pose with him already...and so I stood next to him, he puthis arm around me and held my arm in his hand. The picture was taked but I couldn't leave just yet, if I left without asking i would hate myself so i turned and asked, "Can I have a hug?". He smiled and said "sure" and he gave me a great big hug, it was really one of the most happiest moments of my life, walking out of there I had a perminent smile plastered on my face, my eyes were teary, my hand was shaking and in my hand was a poloroid of a moment I would never forget and all I could think was "Thankyou God, Thankyou for giving me that second chance, you knew how much it meant to me, thank you god..."
Jade__18__@hotmail.com
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