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Okay, so, those in the know are aware that I really WAS at the SOC03, but that I had to leave at noon on Friday to get back to a work related thing in Fort Wayne IN that took place Saturday. I was seriously annoyed at having to leave early, so much so that my friend Bruce who came with me could only put up with so much of my whining on the 9-hour drive there, and promptly fell asleep.
So we pull into wonderfully boring Fort Wayne on Friday night, and Bruce immediately passes out in the room. I head down to the tiny restaurant/bar at the Grand Wayne Hilton, met some friends, sat down with a favorite couple to have dinner. No sooner had I sat down than the waitress came over and asked us if we would mind a bit of cigar smoke, since they had a VIP in the hotel that wanted to sit in peace and smoke and eat. We said sure, but who's the VIP?
Jerry Seinfeld. He was in town to play two shows the next night.
Sure, we said, you tell Jerry that he's more than welcome to join us for dinner! So he and two friends came in, sat down next to us and fired up Cubans the size of oak logs. There was small chit-chat, he asking what our shirts meant (we were wearing ZOMBIES!!! and Dante's Inferno shirts, the board games our company produces), we giving him and his mates copies, then I asked him if he was still a Saab guy. This excited him quite a bit, and threw me, especially since he was wearing a Porsche t-shirt. He immediately asked me how I felt about the whole GM thing, and Deborah, and did I own a Sonett, and all sorts of excited questions. You could tell by the look in the guy's eye that he was thrilled to tears to talk about ANYTHING other than show bidness. We talked Saabs for about 40 minutes (he owned an '82 turbo, and of course the procession of NG900CVs that were in the show - his actual personal car - and just got rid of his last CV; but he IS looking at an Aero Wagon, so all hope is not lost!) I asked him if he'd like to get some copies of NINES, and he was delighted, and wrote his NYC address on the back of one of my cards. One of his friends had just bought a '94 900CV, and was also interested in signing up. I kept trying to find a polite way to break away so he could eat and smoke, but he kept bugging me with questions about the 96 ("You really own an MC850? I thought those things were all extinct!"), the convention ("That sounds like a blast, send me an invite next year and I'l be there!") and the new models ("That truck-based 9-7 just sounds stupid.") He was amazingly up-to-date on all Saab issues, and was just tickled to not be pestered with questions about Nothing and Soup. He was less interested in the open house that was taking place in the hotel, even though Marvel and DC were there showing comics; he's a huge Superman fan, but he wanted to talk about cars, "because I can buy Superman collectibles anywhere in the world, but NO one knows about Saabs." Wow.
So, while I'm still seriously annoyed that I missed the latter part of the SOC03, I'm rather pleased that the SCNA has added a new member :-)
Phil
posted by 209.251.29...
, Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:32:41
, Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:27:56
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