I've been proud/ashamed of this for a week now
Last Saturday, Hammersmith: I'm walking down the street, and a car pulls up to me and a voice shouts 'scuse me mate!' from within. I lean in, and stone me: it's Jason Flemyng, star of Lock, Stock etc, Snatch, Stardust and ITV's own Primeval etc etc.

"Do you know how to get to Goldhawk Road?" he asks.

"Goldhawk Road? It's back that way, mate," and I point to the direction he's come from. He looks glum at this news. What can I say? "Sorry," was the best I could come up with. He says thanks, looks grim and pulls off.

I turn away and start walking again, amused that Jason Flemyng asked me for directions, when it occurs to me that he was in car. He was in a car, so he probably won't think of London in terms of public transportation, as I do. He was in a car, so probably wasn't interested in going to Goldhawk Road Tube station. He was probably after Goldhawk Road itself, the street that isn't really near the station of the same name. The street that was in entirely the opposite direction to where I sent him.

So: score one for the little guy, yes, but also: fucking hell, how stupid was that? I can only assume he thinks I'm an utter cunt, and that I sent him the wrong way deliberately because nobody could surely be that stupid.

I was so upset by my own stupidity that I was tempted to email an apology to his agent. Bit stalker-y though, so I didn't. Fuck him.
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 9:35, 2 replies)

goldhawk road tube station
is on goldhawk road. unless he wanted the other end which is a whole mile and a half away, don't beat yourself up.. (though you can't access it by car at the moment because of the roadworks so you probably still did piss him off!)
(bryo, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:10, closed)

Yeah, it was on King Street
so about 100 yards at most from the end of Goldhawk Road that meets King Street. I sent him back towards Hammersmith Tube station.
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 13:15, closed)