That Awkward Moment When...

I had a very odd experience today.  I was at The Coffee Tree and saw the person who, three years ago, caused such a stir and tried to get me in trouble with AFTRA and Equity because I was doing jobs "financial core" -- that is, I was claiming poverty and taking non-union jobs, since that's all that was available for me in Pittsburgh, and I had to make a living.  This, mind you, is perfectly within the union rules -- it's just terribly frowned upon and discouraged.

So this particular person, taking exception to that, made a big stink with both unions, and it turned out I was threatened with not being allowed to do stage work if I kept taking the non-union voice-over work.  The work that was my only source of income during that particular time in my life.  To his thinking, my union solidarity was infinitely more important than paying my bills, paying for my share of our house or putting food on my table.

So I see this guy at the coffee shop, and it looked like he was actually going to walk up to me and greet me in a "hail fellow, well met" sorta way.  Now, in a perfect world, I'd have been civil to him and been about my business, but what I really wanted to happen was for the prick to walk up to me and say "hi" so I could go off on him and give him a piece of my mind.  Thankfully, he must have seen what was coming on my face, 'cuz he changed direction and didn't acknowledge me.

Have I mentioned that I haven't done a voice-over job in the three years since this happened, and I wouldn't mind if this particular person stepped off the curb in front of a bus?

All in all, it was for the best, I think.