[hliyan]

I sensed this too. So I looked at the author's profile. Now I'm even more confused:

From https://arr.am:

Stuff That’s Happened to Me

I took a photo that may now be one of the most reproduced images in history.

I once came up with an idea with a friend that accidentally became a national TV ad featuring Nicki Minaj, Serena Williams, Usher, Kylie and Kendall Jenner.

I once crashed a fashion show, pretended to be a model, and walked on-stage as dozens of photographers snapped pictures of me.

I was paid in whiskey for a live harmonica performance at a jazz bar in Tokyo. I don’t play harmonica particularly well.

I DJ’d for Chamillionaire. I don’t know how to DJ.

I was yelled at for five minutes by the founder of Skye Vodka for taking his favorite table at a restaurant.

I’ve discovered and excavated dinosaur bones in the Montana badlands.

[rusticpenn]

Sam should have written "I pretended leading a team of 70 instead of 3 to get an interview"

[mLuby]

It's not that confusing, just a bit needy†

1. How many memes are there? Still, this is the most unlikely brag which is probably why it's first.

2. I've had great ideas that turned into things too (causality not confirmed). Friend could have been in advertising.

3. This is… unlikely as stated but there may have been an audience participation part that could be generously reworded this way (and some people say "crashed" to mean "went spontaneously" rather than "snuck in").

4. Easy to imagine a bored bartender on a dead night exchanging a shot for a moment of levity. #Anchorman

5. Could be an embellishment of "I added a song or skipped forward a track and there was someone famous in earshot."

6. I think the brag here is "I take desirable things from rich/famous people because I'm at their level" but it's much more likely just a maître d's mistake and the vodka guy was escalating to get his way. Also we don't know the result—who got the table?

7. Wouldn't surprise me if there are "experience archaeology" tours that contrive this kind of thing. #StartupIdea

†Which, to be fair, aren't we all?

[csomar]

Looks like the person they thought is the best fit is the person closer to them in personality.