What was your “15 seconds of fame”? What was it like?

10 minutes before the Atlanta Falcons kicked off, my now deceased buddy and I were drinking beers waiting for the game to start in our end zone seats. Having just graduated from college, I actually knew one of the cheerleaders. Out she comes with her squad looking great. They did their initial dance and settled in the end zone to wait for the Falcons to come out. The music cut for a few moments. Being rather deep in my cups, I hollered her name. She saw me and started jogging all flirty toward me. Nobody in the Georgia dome had anything else to look at I guess. She pulled me down and kissed my cheek. Beer in hand, I stood back up to the cheers of 50,000 people. It's been downhill ever since.
— Deepsouth2020

Last year my apartment building was hit by lightning and the two upstairs units caught fire. Our apartment was below them and filled with smoke. I arrived home from work as this all was happening and freaked out because my cat was inside. I immediately told the nearest firefighter who heroically went in and saved my cat. When she came out and handed the cat over to me I was very emotional and caught in the moment and didn't realize a local news station was filming it. They ran the clip that night with the text on the screen "man reunited with cat after apartment fire." Super scary experience, but a pretty cool turnout and my kitty is fine :)
— baphothustrianreform

When I was a kid, we lived on the corner of a main road. Cars kept crashing into our house until my mum had to go on a news show on TV to get a barrier put in place because the council either wasn't listening to her or didn't care. The film crew filmed me riding my bike around the back yard and my mum making me a sandwich for lunch, along with her explaining the situation, etc. We got the barrier shortly after and were able to stop worrying about dying in our sleep :)
— septic_tongue

I was part of a morning radio show for awhile. Got on the front page of the newspaper, was in a TV ad, and even got recognized in the mall once. Fame - even a little bit - is weird. People think they know you, even if you just met.
— gogojack

I correctly guessed the last charade that would exempt our group from taking a quiz. Everyone cheered and slapped my back all while I did my best impression of a crocodile's smile. It was awkward. Turns out we could've gotten much higher credits if we just took the quiz.
— Inukami9

I was a witness to a murder. News stations and radio stations phoned me. They played portions of my interview on the radio. Got a call from my my old coworkers and people that knew me asking if it was really me lol.
— IxuntouchblexI

5-6 years ago I was right behind a fan who made an amazing catch at a dodger game. Naturally, I was on TV, and naturally, being a 10 y/o, I had a terrified look on my face so the ESPN sportscasters made fun of me. Good times
— Arkham_Z

When I was 5, I got to hold up a pumpkin at a pumpkin patch and some local newspaper people snapped a photo, printed it and made an article about it. Corbin, KY newspaper. I peaked then. Haven't done much since. Edit: I feel a fool. I misspelled since. I wrote this in the wee hours of the morning on mobile. If the internet spelling gods could ever forgive me, I will do better in the future.
— HermesCat

Waiting in line for the Aerosmith-themed rollercoaster at Hollywood Studios, the speakers mounted in the building play, of course, Aerosmith songs. It started to play "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", to which I started to sing and act out a little bit just for fun. After a few seconds and some giggles from my group, I quit, but one of them spoke up and said "Keep going, you're being watched". We were farther in line and had taken some steps up onto a terrace kind of walkway, and I was being watched by everyone below me in the beginning of the line. I finished the song, lip-synching and waving my arms with theatrics, including a slow-mo "swooning death" behind the wall of the balcony as the song faded out, and got some applause at the end. Makes it better that I was a pimple-ridden, braces-bearing 13-year-old at the time.
— Tigerfrost

Had a YouTube video go viral and made some money off it. The money was cool, the video was not. Edit: not going to give the link because it's pretty embarrassing and has to do with fidget spinners but overall I made about $10,000
— RhineReviews

Our elementary school was elected a “National School to Watch,” so we had a massive assembly where the principal tried to explain to a bunch of nine year olds why this was significant. What we were really interested in was the news crew walking around the gym. Everyone wanted a chance to get on TV. At one point, the camera went right up in front of me, and I waved harder than I had ever waved in my life. I think I was going to break my wrist. I was just so damn excited. That night, I went to the local news station, and waited excitedly to see if I made the cut. >And now, we have (elementary school), which was just elected as a “National School to Watch.” It then cut to the footage of the waving kids, as the cameraman walked down the aisle. Ko and behold, there I was, waving my little heart out. I was so happy. I did it, I was famous. But then my world collapsed. This one kid, desperate for more screen time, jumped in front of me, blocking me from the camera completely. This kid was a friend of mine too. The betrayal I felt in that moment was more than any I have ever felt. It was devastating. Poor little nine year old wj3000g was heartbroken. Sometimes I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking about what could have been. TL;DR: Got on the news, kid jumped in front of me. Still not over it.
— WJ3000g

I'm sort of a big deal, I have the top comment in /r/burgerking Actually I got blacked out drunk and was angry at Burger King.
— spicypepperoni

I mentioned that I get paranoid that I post on reddit too much about 2 years ago and I still get people telling me to stop posting everywhere whenever a comment blows up. It's kind of comforting. Edit: you're all so sweet!
— smileedude

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