The Thai model on the cutting room floor

Writers, like actors (or more like extras), often beef that their best work often gets left on the cutting room floor, so to speak, snipped out by an editor.

I recently wrote a story, chatting with computer repair guy who works for one of those "geek" services while he was out on a call at a local business. Most of the following got clipped, and I'm not going to make a big deal out if it but to post it here, mainly because I find it entertaining.

I'm assuming it is all true, but either way, that this guy told this story while working on computers in an otherwise mundane job (for him and me), made my day:

....said he had briefly acted, on a soap opera in New Zealand, playing a son of a banker who falls in love with a Thai woman. Before that, he was a fashion model in Thailand, where he moved from the Midwest after high school to live with his grandmother. He met his wife, also a model, on the catwalk during a runway show. He also appeared in some Asian rock videos before heading back to the United States to study computers.

Not exactly your pocket-protector wearing nerd, eh?