Some days you're just in the right place at the right time. That happened to Emily Kraus. She was with her boyfriend on their way to a Dave Matthews Band show in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The couple was running a little late.
All of the sudden, they see a man stranded on the side of the road and they pull over. It was Dave Matthews, his bike had broken and he had no cellphone.
The Grammy-winning musician had gone out for a pre-show ride Saturday when the back tire of his bike popped.
"I did not have a cell phone on the bicycle. So I thought, 'Sh*t'," he recalled that night at his show at Hersheypark Stadium.
"And then a nice lady named Emily rode up in a red car with a bicycle rack on it and gave me a ride on to the gig."
Kraus and his boyfriend were in shock. They didn't know what to talk about with the singer because they couldn't believe this was happening to them.
"So we didn't know how to make conversation with him in fact, so we were talking about his tour and where he had come from. He had just been in Cincinnati and he said 'I'm taking a short break after this one because I have to drop my daughters off at camp,' and he was just a very humble guy," she said.
Matthews expressed his gratitude by taking the couple to dinner, followed by an invitation to go backstage, and later giving them front row seats to the performance.
Although Kraus was very thankful for the dinner invitation, she declined because she "felt out of place," but she did take up on the offer to go backstage and watch the show from prime seats.
The day after the concert the lucky fan said she woke up wondering if it was all a dream, but then she noticed the concert tickets. Matthews had signed them, saying "Thanks for the ride."
"OK, yeah, that really happened yesterday," she said. "It was surreal, we couldn't believe it."
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