When Meeting Livvy Dunne It's Probably Best If You Don't Spill Your Drink All Over Her

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They say never meet your heroes and the meaning of that message alludes to the possibility they'll disappoint you based on the image you have of them. There's an alternate interpretation of that phrase that applies to the faction of people who can't help but make fools of themselves. For the sake of this blog we're going to apply the alternate definition for this fella at Fanatics Fest yesterday.  

Now I understand not everyone can be as cool under pressure as Meek Phil, and that's ok. 

But we gotta be better than this. One attempted hug and this guy turned into a real life meme. 

Taking a step back here, it's okay to make mistakes and lose control of our body parts in big life moments like meeting Livvy Dunne. Who could fault you? 

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But if we're talking worst case scenarios in a 20 second interaction, dropping your drink and spilling it on her has to be right at the top. Throwing up or sneezing on Livvy Dunne might be the only thing worse. Everything else is a win. Even if you just mumble words like you've never spoken before you're fine. Completely forgotten about in a minute's time. She probably gets that every single day with the idiots she's forced to interact with. Can't drop your drink on her though. Grip that sucker like it's a steering wheel and your first time behind the wheel. You cannot drop that drink. 

So what do you do next? How do you handle this moment? Well, this guy, in a moment of shock, decides to go in for a hug with who I'm guessing is Dunne's bodyguard. That's just pure helplessness and having no clue what to do. Almost like in a boxing fight when they clench to just catch themselves and regroup. After that he was left with a few options, none of them great. 

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A) Abandon ship. Just sprint as fast as you can away from that scene. Destroy your cellphone, move to a different hemisphere, obtain a new identity, and start over. Don't even say good bye to your loved ones, they're embarrassed to be related to you at this point. That's how the cards are dealt sometimes, unfortunately. 

B) Make a self deprecating joke and steal the moment back as you apologize like in the movies when a super awkward guy runs into the woman of his dreams. We're talking only unicorns being able to pull this off. The stars have to align. Not happening. 

C) Clean the spill off of her. Now the funny thing about this is it's the actual worst possible decision you can make. That body guard you just hugged? He's gonna spear you into the next room and beat the shit out of you before the cops swarm and arrest you on crimes you didn't know existed. At about the 0:16 mark of the video you can see his brain think about doing this as he continues to scramble. Don't be Mitch from Old School.

Thankfully whatever working brain cells he had left at the moment came into play and steered him away from that move. Phew. He did manage to offer a weird "you're fine" at the end of the video. 

Certainly a tough 20 seconds for this fella. Happens to all of us, it just happened to occur for him while meeting Livvy Dunne and having a camera fixated on his every movement. While I'd advise to take option A and abandon all that is his current life, there is a lot to learn from this and get better. If it wasn't apparent to him already, ball security is always the highest priority. 

There's a small part of me that's wondering if spilling the drink was always part of this guy's plan. Positive or negative, that's a memorable moment he just had which will leave an impression on her for a while. Did this son of a bitch pull a fast one on us? I refuse to give him that much credit.