The Owners' Manual | Issue 20 | Winter 2021

I had two celebrity encounters that I recall, and both were many years ago when I was traveling for BL to our regional offices. Nothing too exciting except for a simple hello in both cases. I think that I was traveling to our former RichmondVA office and had to transfer my flight throughWashington DC. I sat directly next to George Stephanopoulos on the tram to the gate. I think he was on George Bush’s staff at that time.The other encounter I had was returning to a hotel after a long day of setting up our former Detroit office. I entered the elevator to go up to my room andVivica A. Fox and her entourage were on the elevator with me.They were ready to party...but I was exhausted.

Dave Parent, Meriden

As a child of the 90’s, I was undoubtedly a huge fan of N’SYNC. On a family vacation visiting friends in Orlando,

FL, we decided to go to Downtown Disney (now

Disney Springs??) for dinner at Planet Hollywood.We saw a crowd gathering around a table and realized it was Joey Fatone (from N’SYNC)! Naturally, pre-teen-Holly lost her mind and had to go over and say hi. Who knew that celebrities enjoy gimmicky restaurants like the rest of us? I cropped out my friends to spare them the embarrassment and don’t mind the grainy 2007-quality photo, but we were all on top of the world!

My son wanted to see Lawrence Taylor for a football signing back in winter of 2015 during a snowstorm. Jason Pintek, Meriden

Holly Linder, Meriden