Lucky me! I met the dreamy black Harvard attorney…
So what are the chances, that on the rare occasion that my family flies together and one of us has to sit on our own, (lucky me) I get to meet the one and only! Well, not only, as apparently there are two of them.
Yes, I met the handsome, tall black lawyer that looks amazingly like Obama, although I am quite sure this one’s about a foot taller. He walked down the aisle and sat next to me on the plane while Tom and the boys were a few rows behind. He was quite friendly, and introduced himself right away, and we did not stop talking for about two hours.
It was a little weird at first because I thought I was talking to the President-elect, but he was so candid and amiable that I immediately felt comfortable. He was on a health kick, eating only raw things and it was slightly amusing to watch him pour all kinds of powders on his salad, and in his various drinks prior to consumption. He carried with him a gallon-sized ziploc baggy filled with natural and organic substances which could not be farther removed from the perpetual colon cancer diet I follow (that would be colon cancer producing diet) on a daily basis.
He mentioned that he has been told that he has an uncanny resemblance to Barack, (“You don’t say…”) and that since Barack announced his candidacy people stop him and ask him questions. Then when they find out he graduated from Harvard Law school, they are dumbfounded. He was wondering how he could capitalize on it, and has decided to buy billboards on buses with his photo and a tag line like: “YES WE CAN… get you the money”. Call your own Harvard attorney today!
No really, I am not that creative. One cannot make this stuff up!
Mr. X, as I will call him to protect his identity, as I know he will be famous soon, is in search of a new career. He has big plans, perhaps a book, or a life coaching business, the “Innate Success Institute” (ISI for short), and this housewife had fun tapping into my old marketing brain to give him some pro-bono advice. I did let him know that he was a publicist’s dream, and then proceeded to spend a healthy amount of time detailing why.
I am sure we will be in touch soon, and I could not wait to tell Tom about my great conversation with this intelligent, kind, hard-working, driven, and beautiful man. “Don’t bother”, he said. “I think the whole plane knows about it!”
Excellent…