Dikembe Mutombo in ATL
While exiting the Sky Club for my ATL-LAX, I noticed a VERY tall (7'2") gentleman chatting with the agents at the booking desk. Overheard him saying a few more flights this year. Obviously they were very familiar. What really caught my eye was his very elegant black, mid-calf overcoat.
He boarded after me. Passengers passed and smiled and the captain came by to shake his hand and greet him. I asked a FA who he was and she told me his name and said he was the "Cookie Monster." No idea who he was, figured he was a basketball player so I googled cookie monster and basketball, and came up with Dikembe Mutombo.
FA came to hang his overcoat (she must have had to fold it over a few times) and suit jacket, everything impeccably tailored and fitted. Being tall myself (6'6") I know you just can't buy this stuff off the rack. I wanted to ask him who his tailor is, not that I could afford it.
He was very gracious and humble. But wow, he did fill the seat and scrape the ceiling!