One week later, and another strange, but delightful air travel experience. This time my neighbor on this evening’s jetBlue 9 p.m. flight to Oakland was Agent Zero, Gilbert Arenas. Very cool, especially since he was referenced in a recent blog post!
A couple of interesting notes. Gilbert writes his own blog. He mentioned he had written a post on Tuesday that was supposed to be posted today. Talk about an approval cycle. But it’s very cool to see he actually writes the Agent Zero posts. Other random notes, he’s not buying an iPhone and his current mobile phone works at 20,000 feet, a windows mobile device. He’s a pretty nice guy, who seems genuine.
Working in PR you do end up meeting famous people from time to time. It’s important to remember these guys put their pants on one leg at a time, just like us, so I do everything I can to treat them like normal folks. No autographs, no what’s it like Qs, no photos. Just idle chat. It was a surprise to see him on row 6, jetBlue with the rest of us, but hey, I am not complaining.
Geoff, Gilbert sounds like a cool guy. Don’t kid yourself Geoff, jetBlue is awesome (I used to work there). Have fun in San Fran!