True story: When I was about 7 years old my Mom and I were on our way to The Bahamas. In Miami, in the airport gift shop, she ran into Sidney Poitier. She wanted his autograph but she only had one piece of paper on her.

That’s how Sidney Poitier ended up signing my Mom’s birth certificate.

@patrickrhone Wow!

@jabel Sadly, he autographed the back of it and not the space where it said “Father”. :-)

@patrickrhone Cool!

My conservative fanboy version is passing a familiar face in the San Jose airport (it had to be 1988) and then realizing too late that it was Thomas Sowell.

@patrickrhone Amazing story.

@ReaderJohn That sort of thing has happened to me a couple of times in New York City.

@manton The memory is somewhat fuzzy in my mind. I don’t even know if I was really aware of who he was at the time. I just remember my Mom being super excited and talking for days/weeks afterward about what a “beautiful man” he was.