Christmas was late but well worth the wait!

Okay so I haven't written anything for a while and it was because I was waiting for something fantastic – Today is that day.

Last night I flew into the Atlanta Airport after spending the Christmas break in Port Charlotte, FL with the Smith family. As usual at ATL things were going way to slow. It had been over a half our since the plane had landed and our baggage still had not made it to the conveyor belt. David had come to the aiport to pick me up, and because of the delay, he had decided to come inside. This turned out to be the best thing that could possibly have happened. When David got to the baggage claim he was almost running to find me and then said "You will never guess who I just say back there! Hashim Nzinga!"

For those of you who do not know who this person is, I would ask you to pause and watch this you tube clip from the Hannity and Combs Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEEm480_jU

This clip had been on David's tivo since the day it aired and we watch it often because it was one of the few times anyone has actually like Combs. There have been few news reports that have brought me as much joy as this one.

With that said, back to the story! We needed to take action. Right about then the luggage was finally coming onto the belt, but we didn't care. We abandoned the carousel and went to find this guy. When we found him there was a gentleman standing next to him very stiff and proper. We assumed this to be one of his body guards. For the sake of keeping my pronouns in order lets call this man Steve. David asked Steve if that was Mr. Nzinga and the Steve had no clue what we were talking about. He obviously was not the bodyguard. Hashim was on the phone so David interrupted him and the conversation went like this:

David: "Excuse me, Are you Mr. Nzinga?"
Hashim: "Ya, who you with?"
David: "Ohh. No one sir, My name's david…"
Hashim: "WHO you with?!"
David: "I'm a no body"
Juan: "Ya we were just walking through the airport and recognized you."
David: "Ya I recognized you from TV and I was hoping we could get your picture."
Hashim: "Oh, ya, alright then" (Said with a large smile)

So we got pictures with him and then he walked off felling good about himself… and probably confused as to why two white kids wanted their picture with the head of the black panthers. (for those of you who have facebook you can see the pics there)

After he left, Steve was still standing there and asked David "Hey man, who was that guy?" David responded "That was Hashim Nzinga, the leader of the black panther party!" The man's jaw dropped, and his eyes became large enough to look animated as he yelled at a whisper, "Dude!!! I have been standing next to him for 20 minutes and I had no idea!! Ahhh!!! … aww man!... I can't believe I missed him!..." So we went to get my bags and on the way back passed steve again and David looks at him and says, "Man! You missed your chance!" and I chimed in "Ya man, you dropped the ball!" Steve then yelled again about how he felt stupid. It was a great day for comedy.