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My Brush with Greatness
I was working at a
small regional airport in California.
I worked several flights a day and had loads of "down" time between
them.
I had been watching A-10 Warthogs doing touch and go's all afternoon
when a Pitcairn Mailwing
landed and parked. We got a lot of interesting planes, this was
just one of many. The pilot got out,
talked to the fuel guys, wandered around for a while and then came into
the terminal to use the restroom.
Then he came over and started talking to me.
I was WAY too cool for that, I was no a
beauty but pilots are notorious for being flirts.
So I chatted with him and gave it no further thought. He went
back to his plane and flew away.
Moments later my friend from the
fixed-base operation came running through the door yelling,
"Did you see him, did you see
Steve McQueen?"
OMG, I had been talking to him and
never realized behind that beard was someone I admired and lusted
after....
If I recall, he was quite sick and died not that long after I saw him.
I have wondered all these years later
if he thought I was a dolt or what!
Bimbi in Oregon