You know you are not rocking a good fashion look if you get propositioned by a potential john, when you were not out looking for that kind of freelance work.
But in the case of one superstar, it isn't all that surprising. She didn't really even seem to mind as she recounted the tale to David Letterman this week, although at the time, she did threaten to shoot the john when he was too persistent.
And that little lady was...
It was 1968, and Dolly Parton and a friend were staying at a cheap hotel in Times Square, which back then was the old seedy Times Square.
"That's where all the prostitutes run and they ran in pairs for safety and we looked like we might be them. I still had the big hair, looking trashy like I do," she told Letterman.
But her admirer refused to believe she was not a lady of the night.
"We were just country girls and our daddies had given us both a gun when we left home ... I said, 'Look, if you touch me one more time, I'm gonna shoot you,'" she said.
And to add insult to injury, when they got back to their hotel, they'd been locked out because management thought they were turning tricks.
"I didn't come back here for years and years," she said.
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