Most interesting person you've sat next to on a flight

Preferably someone close enough that you were able to engage with in conversation. Doesn't have to be a celebrity per se.

First one was Cheri Pompeo. She has run somewhere over 200-300 full marathons and countless halfs, among other trail runs. She ran all these trails in Washington and wrote this book. She had just run a full marathon 2 weeks before and was on her way to run in the Rock n Roll New Orleans Marathon. She was in her mid-late 60s at the time a few years ago. And the kicker is she didn't start running races until she was close to 30 years old. Just




The second was the manager from the hip hop band 2 Live Crew. Apparently they were big in the 80s and stirred up a lot of controversy on their lyrics. The manager was wearing a t-shirt with something about guns, and kept talking back and forth with the rappers a few rows in front of us. Even gave me a signed photo and invited me to their gig... in Slidell. Yes this all took place in coach Fresh Kid Ice (left) died last year.




Lastly, and this is kind of a , I was on the back row and witnessed some guy picking up on a stewardess. He claimed he was a golfer in the PGA tour, and it appeared he knew what he was talking about... had me convinced. The attendant hung out in the back the whole time with this guy, flirting and laughing. Pretty sure they left together. I got home and looked up his name and it turned out he was a caddy for the LPGA tour.