Rain Man

Monday night, our friends Neil and Felicia came to our apartment and we started watching Rain Man. Felicia and I didn't make it all the way through and went to sleep after an hour, but Gary and Neil watched the whole thing. So then today Gary and Neil and I went to the Salt Lake Library downtown to return some books and browse around. Neil was on the 5th floor when he called Gary and said "dude the REAL rain man is here!" I was like "Dustin Hoffman?" NOPE!! Apparently there is another rain man for which the film was based. Gary and Neil had met this guy back when they were 14 or so and recognized him. They weren't very tactful though. Gary and Neil stared at him for about 15 minutes straight. I was less obvious and walked around, in and out of the isles, checking up occasionally. He was just sitting at a table with a bunch of phone books, reading them and talking to himself, and making notes here and there. So then he gets up and walks over to the book shelf where they have 7 feet wide books, grabs one and starts reading that. Gary and Neil also grabbed random books, and sat down at his table and just stared at him again. I sat on a big squishy chair near by and just observed what they would do. Finally Gary says to him "are you Kim Peek?" And he says "yes I am." So they explained how they met him a few years ago, but he didn't seem to pay attention, he was still reading the phone book. Then Gary and Neil start asking him questions. "When was Ronald Reagan elected president?" "How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit?" He answered their questions without blinking and still reading. I was so amazed! Then Neil told him his birthday and asked how many days he had been alive...and then finally Kim said "you have to look it up! I'm not doing that right now!" He knows he's a semi celebrity too and knows he doesn't have to answer questions if he doesn't want to. So I convinced them that we needed to go and not bother the nice disabled man anymore. But it was still pretty cool.