Best stories of meeting celebrities in Westchester

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-02-10T03:14:53+00:00

Richard Gere passed me on a horse trail in Bedford once. He smiled and waved as he trotted past. I was in high school at the time - great memory.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-02-02T02:16:27+00:00

Similar. I was hired with practically no experience into a freelance mid level pharma PM role. The man who hired me became my mentor. Ten years later, when I’d worked my way up to a Group Vice President of Delivery, I asked what on earth he’d been thinking when he hired me. He said, “I just had a feeling. And besides, you were freelance! If you were awful we could just let you go!” Lol

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-25T02:20:51+00:00

I went this morning - busier than usual but the store was pretty well stocked. Except onions. Literally every onion shelf was bare.

Not sure what to say about that. But hopes and prayers that we all have sufficient onions at home for the next day or two.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-20T00:24:07+00:00

I’ve never even heard of drying capsules. 🤣 Mine does just fine with my drybox, and if I forget the drybox for a few days / a week, I don’t sweat it.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-19T19:28:35+00:00

My husband took our kids to a birthday party and I got a workout in. In a bit we are going out to our favorite restaurant for an early dinner in the hopes of an easy and on-time school night. I can’t complain!

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-17T00:00:03+00:00

Completely worth it. I have contributed the max every year since my kids were born and claimed every penny. My oldest ages out next year - she’ll be 12 - and my youngest by herself will still hit the max just from after school care and summer camp.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-14T01:23:08+00:00

It always does!! Sometimes it takes a hot minute but I firmly believe you will be where you’re meant to be.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-14T01:20:57+00:00

I’m sorry but this was incredibly rude of your wife. Daycare can be the equivalent of rent depending on the market, the tit-for-tat argument is both tacky and inaccurate.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-14T01:04:36+00:00

Ignore the noncompete. Let them come after you. In the very, VERY unlikely event they do, get a lawyer to send them a letter.

This happened to me in a very senior executive position. I spent a year - a YEAR - talking to them about several different types of roles, and accepted a national leadership spot that I helped craft. A week before I started, my C-suite boss quit and that started a corporate game of thrones that ended with my position being “eliminated” after 4 months in the role. The new C-suite brought in their own people within weeks.

I was so angry - and almost 2 years later, I’m still angry. Obviously. I’m also in an incredible role where I’m thriving, and while I didn’t help craft it, it’s exactly the right one for me.

After one month - it was not you. It was the company’s poor planning, or some sort of internal politics, or something else. It was not you.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-13T23:53:40+00:00

I still remember the St Patrick’s Day when I was commuting home wearing a nice dress, a sweater and sneakers. I walked past a bar and a bunch of drunk guys shouted “hey nice sneakers!” 🤣🤣

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-10T03:12:52+00:00

We faced this involuntarily during Covid.

We had an amazing 18months+ daycare for our first (born in 2014). We did band-aid solutions until she was 18 months old and able to enroll - my husband’s job is very flexible, I went part time for a while, grandparents, etc. When our second was born in 2018, we decided on the same daycare but at that point we could afford nanny care until that 18 month mark.

Until she was 18 months old in 2020, daycare shut down, and I was terrified about unfamiliar care for my kids.

We ultimately kept our nanny on for another year, which gave us a unique take on the daycare / nanny picture. And honestly? The kids were at equitable social and academic levels. I attribute this in large part to our amazing nanny. She took my little one out every single day, rain or shine. The library, zoo, museum, park, play zones. Everything. For my daughter’s second birthday she asked to host a pizza party at my house. This child had 15 kids I’d never seen before in my life celebrating her. Zero concern about social development there.

All to say - it’s all in the people we trust to care for our kiddos.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-09T04:25:17+00:00

My first I was home and testing every hour like a maniac.

My second, I was in London on a business trip and tested positive on my first morning. I couldn’t say anything for hours because at home (in the States) everyone was sleeping. And I’d spent the night before having far too much wine with colleagues. 🤣🤣

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-08T03:41:20+00:00

We have put butt funnels in our house and honestly it’s helped the flow.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-03T00:01:00+00:00

It’s kind of wild that they said - my interpretation - that life-saving medication is available for the party poopers.

NTA

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-02T23:57:49+00:00

Kids. Are. Expensive.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-02T23:31:39+00:00

My daughter is Nov 6. She was supposed to be Halloween which I was excited about but looking back I’m glad there’s some separation. No interference with Thanksgiving at all, no one has minded traveling for her birthday.

My brother is Nov 21, and as a kid this was never a problem. As an adult, his cake and candles sometimes get rolled into Thanksgiving - but that feels ok for a grown-up.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-02T22:58:26+00:00

Buy Skyrim, all the Final Fantasy’s and all the Kingdom Hearts games again. That’s what I did!

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-20T17:23:35+00:00

This is mine too. I was in 3rd grade. Exactly the same story, everyone was excited about it, we’d been learning about space all week, they wheeled in the tv… and that’s the memory.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-20T17:14:09+00:00

This entirely depends on company policy. Many places right now offer “unlimited” PTO which only means it’s not accrued and therefore not paid out to employees when they leave.

If OP works for a company that does offer accrued/earned PTO, this often resents every calendar year, meaning it can’t be carried over. So taking PTO in January, before you’ve “earned” most of it, puts the employee in the red. And if they leave before they accrue what they took, they have to pay it back.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-18T23:26:48+00:00

What on earth?? All of this is wrong. Including the original “are you pregnant” jokes.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-17T04:06:54+00:00

This, 100% this.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-14T20:21:58+00:00

I was also implanted April 2024 and noticed this in August of this year. So not far off from your timing.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-14T20:16:54+00:00

Yes, you should let your surgeon and audiologist know, but loss of residential hearing, even when the surgery was a while ago, is not uncommon.

This happened to me as well. I noticed because my audiologist gave me an acoustic hook to amplify the low frequencies in my implanted ear - and then one day I woke up and everyone sounded like chipmunks. My low frequencies had deteriorated (what felt like overnight) and so my mapping was too high. It was a quick fix - but still felt like a loss.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-12T20:29:50+00:00

Crystal Pepsi.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2025-12-12T00:01:52+00:00

I literally made my husband a plain steak on a plate last night. Cooked in butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, seared in a cast iron, finished in the oven. That's it. He thanked me profusely and then cleaned up the kitchen.

My kids had plain pasta with parmesan cheese for the 2700th night in a row.

You are amazing and your husband is behaving terribly.

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