[BigDogg]

Very last day of high school, I finish my final exam, return my books to the library. As I'm walking to the car I get a phone call from my Mom, she's down at Milestones on the inner harbour for lunch and tells me that Jarome is sitting two tables away from her and to get my Iggy jersey and a camera and haul ass.
So I made it down there in record time (breaking some traffic laws along the way), sure enough he's there sitting with some buddies. Apparently he was in town for a friend's wedding. I saw that he was eating so I figured the polite thing to do would be to obviously wait until he's finished his meal before I bother him. I remember just sitting there frozen trying not to gawk at him too much haha, I was pretty star struck.

Finally mustered up the courage to get up and talk to him. As I'm walking towards him he sees me coming, immediately gets out of his chair, with a big smile on his face, and goes to shake my hand. All I remember saying to him was that he was my all time favourite player and that I would really appreciate it if he could sign my jersey. He signed it for me and noticed that my Mom had a camera in her hand and asked me if I wanted to take a picture with him, he made me an offer I couldn't refuse lol. After the photo he shook my hand again and my Mom's.

Just a true classy professional, he didn't have to sign/pose for a picture but he did and he did it without making it seem like it was a chore for him. It made me feel ridiculously happy and gave me a memory I'll hold onto forever.

I've met many of the old timers through their circuit, Lanny was always awesome and I have a great picture that he took with me when I was a kid, great guy.

Guy Lafleur was awesome too, real funny guy, and I'm pretty sure he was hitting on my Mom lol.

I deal with the Courtnall brothers quite a bit through my work, they use Macs and need our business to fix them when they screw something up. Kinda your prototypical clueless jocks who make it to the pros, like to say their full names every time I talk to them, but all around nice guys.