The Actors Are Fine...It's The Parents That Are Annoying

My favorite teen actor has been lucky in that he's been around some really nice people on his various projects in the past year. From "Marshall" to "Abercorn" to "Bella", we haven't met any annoying actors or parents.

It seems all of the annoying parents were waiting for the audition Zach had this week.

The Artist had a early evening audition on Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles.  Thankfully we were going the opposite direction of the heavy traffic on the 101.  

We arrived at the casting office and proceeded to sign-in on the talent clipboard.  It wasn't 30 seconds after we put down the clipboard that the first of five amazing stage parents emerged from the elevator.

1.  Out of the elevator stepped a mother and her actor daughter to sign in for the audition.  The mother took the clipboard and proceeded to take it into the bathroom.  Everyone in the room stared as she disappeared with the sheet.  Her embarrassed daughter said her mom is a slow writer and needed some extra time with the sheet.

The bathroom mom eventually emerged after about 5 minutes of alone time with the clipboard to make way for stage parent number two.

2.  A stage mom arrived with her teenage daughter as well as a baby in her arms.  The mom was rocking the baby and telling her what a great job she did at her audition.

It turns out the 8-month-old baby had a Gerber's audition earlier in the day.  The mom also spent the whole time telling the baby she needed to learn to take stage directions or she would never book a job.

3.  I wasn't the only dad at the audition.  The other father was dressed like he was trying to be the "rebel" character described in the script.  The dad was wearing a yellow bandana, an Ed Hardy jacket, glitter under his eyes and ripped jeans.  He wasn't there to audition.  Was he trying to channel the character while running lines with his daughter in the waiting room?

Or maybe that's just the way he likes to dress.  I'm trying to be nice to the guy.  Did I mention he had a dragon tattoo on his neck????

4.  My favorite mom was the one wearing a jacket that said "Love Is The Answer" on the back of it. One kid asked her if it's the name of a show which caused her to launch into a 5-minute rant about the song by that name recorded by Utopia.  She also made it clear she believed the Utopia version is far superior to the England Dan and John Ford Coley version.  (Truth!)

5.  The final parent that caught my eye was the quiet one in the corner.  I only noticed her when she asked if anyone knew where a trash can was in the room.  Zach and I were there for 40-minutes and she proceeded to eat four candy bars and two packs of peanut butter crackers in that time frame. The trash can was full by the time we left the audition.

All of the odd parents didn't make me laugh as much as what happened to the two of us when we arrived at the audition building.  Zach walked up to the security desk and asked for directions to the casting office.  They made sure his name was on the list and printed out name tags for us.

"Hi, my name is Visitor,  Nice to meet you."

I'm thinking about using my name tag as my new social media profile photo.

This Actor Is Not Listed As "Visitor" On IMDb.