Saw the First Lady at Lunch

[DRAFTSTUD]

I was going to lunch today and saw a group of people gathering outside an alleyway behind my building. I knew Mrs. Bush was giving a speech today at a $1000 a plate luncheon, but I don't like to spend over $10 for lunch. She came out in one of those black Suburbans, we all waved and she waved back, she sure is a pretty woman. I saw Airforce One out my window on 9/11/01, that was'nt fun at all, first you see fighter planes and the big white one comes in, bad feeling! Back in 93 or 94 I had parked and was walking across the street to my office building and Bill Clinton was on the other corner shaking hands, well I never liked him, but I would have liked to have said that I had shook the hand of a President. I got to about 15 feet from him and it dawned on me that I had my S&W 9mm in my briefcase!!!!! I still have'nt shook the hand of a President! You never know who you'll run into downtown!

 

[IndyJay]

Cool story... my closest contact with a President came in '77 at the Kentucky Derby. I was standing in line to make a bet and former President Ford walked past me.

 

[DaveHawk]

Draft, living in the DC area as a contractor In N.W. D.C. we get to be held up by thier caravans where ever thay go. Sometimes it's cool but sometimes when you have a deadline to meet it's not. All in all it is exciting to see them none the less. Good story. I don't spend more than 6 bucks for lunch.

 

[Whiskers]

My wife makes me carry my lunch. Closest I ever came to seeing a President was Richard Nixon, before he was elected. Went to a rally, and got within 100 yards of him. I have shaken hands with a couple of governors tho, and argued with senators.

 

[Mojave]

Never met any big time politicians. Met Matthew Broderick once on the set of "Project X". Cool guy but surprisingly short for an actor. I also ran into Tammy Faye Baker in a Target. She was crying all over the place, mascara just flying, I kid you not.

That's what you get for living in So. Cal. (for a while), actors instead of politicians. Even if you get to meet a politician, chances are....

 

[pa mt man]

The closest to a president would be JFK when I was in second grade. I when to Carnot school by greater Pittsburgh airport. We all went outside to wave at the motorcade as it went by. don

 

[wyomingtim]

When I was a cop in Baton Rouge I was about 3 feet from Bush Sr. after a talk he gave on LSU campus. He was getting into his lemo as we were working crowd control. Nothing like getting to shove back pushy news anchors. Especially the ones that always like to berate the police. That was a great moment in my book.

 

[Whiskers]

I forgot....I met Tom Knapp. The shooter. He was pretty cool.

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

Pa mt man, If you saw JFK in the second grade we must have gone to different Grade Schools together! I was in Ft. Worth, Tx and JFK was in a parade through Dallas, a little girl came to our second grade classroom with big tears rolling down her eyes saying "the President has been shot". They had been rotating classrooms to the auditorium to watch it on a B&W TV and we had just got back. For years there after people would go out to Oswalds grave and spit and Pee on his grave, which my parents took my sister and I to see. I think everyone remembers where they were on days like that, JFK, Oklahoma City, and 911. You know as I wrote that it dawned on me, we Baby Boomers have seen some Stuff! Draftstud