Celebrity sightings during my traveling
Ozzie Smith
Three weeks ago I was flying from Philadelphia to NY City. It was a small plane, the kind you have to walk out to the tarmac to board. Not a big deal since it was only about 45 minutes wheels up. I got on the plane and took my aisle seat about halfway down the plane. Since it was a smaller plane, there was no first class and only two seats on either side. After I got settled, I turned to my left and sitting in the other aisle seat, right next to me, was the Baseball Hall of Famer <a href="http://www.ozziesmith.com">Ozzie Smith</a>. Yep, THE Ozzie Smith. We made small talk during the flight but never talked about baseball. In the countless hours since, I?ve thought of a million things to say to him. Oh well, maybe next time.
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bc42.html">Willam Jefferson Clinton</a>
Earlier tonight I was walking down 42nd Street in Manhattan after getting some takeout, heading back to my hotel. I was about to go into a deli to get a soda when I realized that large, well dressed men, facing away from the store, were not letting anyone into it. ?Hmm?, I thought. So I was standing there with about 4 other people when Bill Clinton walked out. He was lead and trailed by two other large men in suits. He was carrying something, but to be honest, I was in such shock to look at what kind of food was in his bag. I was about 4 feet from him. 4 feet from <a href="http://www.realchange.org/clinton.htm">Bill Clinton</a>, adulterer, former-leader-of-the-free-world lawyer, Rhode scholar, 400K-a-pop-speaker, Big Mac-eating, Bill freakin? Clinton. If I were any closer to him he would have been invading my ?space?. Cool. My personal feelings aside, it was cool. He stood there shaking hands and signing autographs. He went to his SUV, put his food in the backseat, and came back to the crowd. What was kind of nice was that he went to the young cops working detail first and shook their hands and gave them autographs. After 1 minute, about 30 people crowded around and tried to get to him. At this point I made my getaway and went back to my hotel.
On a side not, Bill Clinton was in our town, Milton, on June 6 to give the <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/170/metro/A_matter_of_choice+.shtml">commencement speech </a>at Milton Academy. One of Bill?s senior staff members while he was president has a son who was graduating, and Bill gave the speech as a favor. Milton Academy is considered by many as the top high school academy in the nation. Very very rich people send their kids there.