hillary, stan, and vince vaughn

normally i like to invent nicknames for people in these stories because it's so much more fun. but in this case, the real names must be used to preserve the authenticity of what happened...

my best friend's sister, "hillary," was in denmark with her father while he was there on business. at the time hillary was about 18, and having lived in sweden for part of her life, spoke fluent swedish. she decided to go on a tour while her father was busy with other things. (i have never been to denmark, but apparently being able to speak swedish is useful there.)

while on the tour, she was in a group with two other tourists. one, a younger-looking man who seemed somewhat familiar. and the other, an old man named stan. hillary noticed a few people approaching the younger man for autographs. she asked him what his name was. he said his name was vince vaughn.

this did not make much of an impression on hillary as she couldn't think of anything this so-called famous actor had acted in. she later asked him again, "wait, what was your name again?" he repeated, "vince vaughn."

as their group of three began the tour it became apparent that stan needed more help than originally thought. when stan pulled out his white cane and started tapping around hillary and vince realized that he was actually quite visually handicapped. they helped stan through the tour, but because stan was very slow, they had a hard time keeping up with the rest of the tour. however, they had a good time and got to know each other quite well.

when the tour had ended, stan was ready to go out on the town with hillary and vince. he seemed to be under the impression that they were friends for at least the rest of the day and should hit a few more tours. but vince helped stan into a cab and they bade a fond farewell to stan. once his cab had left, vince said, "phew! now what do you want to do?" hillary laughed because he seemed so relieved to be rid of stan. vince explained, "now don't get me wrong-- i'm a fan of stan...but he IS a little slow."

hillary and vince spent the rest of the day together enjoying denmark. they went out to eat and hillary asked him what films he had been in. he said that swingers was probably his favorite, but she hadn't seen that. he said he was in jurassic park 2. "jurassic park 2?!" hillary said, making a face. "what? it was a kids' movie!" vince said, defending himself.

apparently he was a perfect gentleman (he called her "kid" a lot) and insisted on paying for everything they did together that day. when it came time to go home, they gave each other a hug and thanked each other for the fun time. i will do my best to get the photo of hillary, vince, and stan together on the tour so i can post it. i know you're dying to see it.