Well, I for one, enjoyed reading about your meeting with TO. Oh lucky person:)

QD

----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Apple
To: terryoquinnforum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Terry O'Quinn Forum] I met Terry!!


I still check out your site and enjoy reading the
updates! And Terry is very nice, down to earth and
kind of quite. So that was THE real Terry!!! He has
never changed being himself.. I'm so happy you got to
meet him!!! I hope you continue posting!!! I enjoy the
pictures and your conversations. Trish
--- katje0711 <katyasullivan@...> wrote:

> Not sure if anyone even comes here anymore, but if
> anyone does, I
> thought y'all would enjoy reading this:
>
>
> When I learned Terry was going to be on The View, I
> purchased my bus
> ticket and made the trip from New Hampshire to New
> York City. I had
> to leave NH around 11:30pm the night before,
> becuause I was catching
> the bus out of Boston. Although my bus didn't leave
> until 2:30am the
> following morning and we live only 45 minutes from
> Boston, my husband
> had to drop me off early so he could get back home
> and get a decent
> night's rest. Thank goodness for supportive
> husbands!
>
> At 2:30am on Feb 19, 2008 my bus pulled out for our
> 4 hour trip into
> the Big Apple. The bus trip was uneventful and we
> even arrived 15
> minutes early. Once in the city, I caught the subway
> and headed
> directly to the ABC studios where The View is
> filmed. I had no
> problem finding the building. Considering I had no
> idea how things
> were laid out, I went inside the front door and
> spoke with one of the
> security guards at the front desk. I explained I had
> come in from NH
> and was with www.TerryO'Quinn.org and hoped to see
> Terry. The guy was
> nice enough, but told me the guests' limos just
> drive in and then
> leave, when they are done. However, he did tell me
> where to go. I
> certainly was not deterred and headed in that
> direction. On my way
> there, I saw three people waiting outside the front
> of the building.
> They were from Boston, but had come on an earlier
> bus, and were
> trying to get standby tickets. I think I'm going to
> try that
> sometime. I walked around the corner and when I saw
> a security booth
> I told that guard the same story. At first he looked
> at his list of
> names and said he couldn't find Terry on it. I
> almost had a heart
> attack! If I'd gone all that way only to find out
> he'd cancelled, I
> would have been so upset. And then he found it.
> WHEW! Anyway, the
> guard said sometimes the guests do get out and talk
> to their fans,
> but not all the time. He also informed me that the
> guests usually
> arrive between 9:30am and 10:20am and suggested I go
> to a restaurant,
> eat something and stay warm. I decided I had plenty
> of time to do
> that, so I did. Although, it was still early, around
> 8am I walked
> back to the lot and waited outside. I wasn't going
> to take any
> chances I might miss him.
>
> An hour later lostlocke called to tell me she was on
> her way. She
> also told me she had seen Terry walk past her the
> day before, but she
> didn't say hello to him! I couldn't believe it! I
> know I would have
> stopped him. When she finally arrived, I handed her
> a sign I had
> maden to get Terry's attention. We each had one that
> read "DOLT
> hearts Terry!" So, I knew he'd not only see that he
> had fans waiting
> for him, but they were from the Fuse.
>
> LL and I stood with our signs and I asked the guard
> a few times if
> Terry had arrirved, yet. A few cars had pulled in
> with dark windows,
> so I wasn't sure if he had arrived and we weren't
> aware of it. The
> guard was very nice and let us know he had not
> arrived. Before LL
> showed up, I did see one car pull in and I could see
> a lady in the
> front seat with dreadlocks. After the call drove in,
> I asked the
> guard if that was Whoopi Goldberg and he confirmed
> it was. Neat!
> Anyway, at 10:04am, a car with dark windows pulled
> in and as soon as
> they had driven into the lot, the guard told us it
> was Terry! The
> guard said he'd seen us, but we weren't sure if he
> was saying that
> because he had told the people in the car we were
> there or what.
> Considering the show was not due to start for
> another hour, LL and I
> went across the street to a store, bought some hot
> chocolate and
> warmed up! I was frozen solid! It figures that the
> day before it was
> 60 and the day Terry was in NYC it was only supposed
> to get up to 38.
> That in itselt wouldn't have been so bad, but the
> wind was whipping
> up like crazy, which caused it to feel ten degrees
> colder. Also, I
> have a condition that causes my fingers and toes to
> turn white, when
> they get cold, and they start to hurt. Amazingly
> this didn't start to
> be a real problem, until about an hour before we
> went in to warm up.
> Ah, the things we'll do to meet someone! We were in
> the store about
> an hour and my fingers finally thawed out. Luckily
> the manager of the
> store was also very kind and allowed me to use their
> restroom, as
> well! We had purchased some hot chocolate, after
> all!
>
> A little after 11am we finally went back across the
> street. The show
> had only just started, but considering we didn't
> know the exact time
> Terry would be on and if he would leave directly
> after, we wanted to
> be sure and not miss him. We had decided we'd just
> look for every
> dark car and wave our signs in front of it, to make
> sure he saw us.
> Turned out we didn't have to. Around 11:50am I saw a
> car moving
> within the lot and then saw two people come walking
> out toward it. I
> didn't give it much thought, because they didn't get
> in the car and
> when I saw them walking toward us, I just thought
> they were a couple
> of employees who were leaving. I'd seen several
> people coming and
> going all morning, so I didn't think twice about it.
> LL then
> said, "Thers's Terry." I said, "What?" She said,
> "There's Terry." I
> said, "What?" She said, "There's Terry." And then it
> hit me! It was
> Terry walking toward us! I had so expected him to
> pull up and then
> get out of his car. LMAO! So, he must have seen us
> when he drove in!
> He came out just to talk to us! *sigh*
>
> When Terry was a little closer, I walked toward him
> and called out to
> him and introduced myself. He stepped close to me
> and gave me a hug.
> *dies* I then told him I'd come in all the way from
> NH just to see
> him and that I'd waited a long time for this and he
> gave me a kiss.
> *faints* He was just as sweet as can be. I then
> asked if I could get
> a picture and the woman who was with him took a
> couple for me. I then
> asked Terry if I could get a couple of autographs.
> At that time, he
> pointed out there were some other people waiting. I
> think he just
> wanted us to be aware he had to give them some
> attention too. LOL But
> I was surprised to hear there was someone else
> there. The entire time
> LL and I were waiting we were the only two. But lo
> and behold I
> turned around and there were two guys with pictures
> to be signed! I
> said, "We've been standing here for hours" and one
> of them said, "I
> know." I was thinking, where the heck did they come
> from?! I remember
> seeing a vehicle parked on the side of the road and
> realized they
> must have been waiting inside it! To think LL and I
> waited in the
> cold all that time and they were in their nice warm
> car. What if we
>
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