Lots of Surprise in Dallas at the NHL All-Star Game (to be disseminated over the next few days), but nothing more Shocking and Awe-some than this lil' anecdote.
Was at the "Taste of the State Fair" pre-game party in the Hyatt Regency Ballroom with Airborne's V.P. Product, Ms. Kim Senn. A wild fan of the fastest game on earth, she was speechless when none other than Mr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe, ambled into the room. "Let's get you a picture with him," I suggested.
Gordie kinda ignored my hovering but stopped when approached by my lithe, slender, blonde colleague.
Just as I was about to snap the shot of the two of them, he took his arm off Kim's shoulder and lumbered away.
"Oh Christ," I thought to myself. "He's pissed off. What I have I done? "
He walked towards me, leaned in, and in a deep voice, uttered the following three words, one by one, almost like a warning:
"Take. Your. Time!"