So, I had the pleasure to hang out with him for quite a while today. I was asked to take a few publicity photos of him, for his dad, Gary Hall Sr. and Rowdy Gaines.
I was very pleasantly surprised, Jr. is a very nice and very personable guy. I thought perhaps he'd have a hot shot attitude... Not even close.
As I was asking him to make couple poses for the camera, for the publicity, he and he did... and we chuckled about them, he made a comment something to the effect of, about I dunno why people take some of that so negatively, and think I'm a total jerk :(
He seemed pretty genuinely bummed out.
I was thinking how he is always being asked to pose and do publicity things, and do some showing off or what not, then it turns around and ends up giving him a bad rep.
Later on introduced him to a massage therapist friend of mine who works on a lot of pro athletes, to work on him and they can compare notes, and Gary's first response was, oh, that would be so nice but, aren't there people here that need it a lot more then I do, they'll say, what does he need *that for*.... he was all embarrassed, and rather humble about it.
He's the kind of a guy that wouldn't squish a bug! I mean literally.
As we were sitting and chatting, a June bug landed, he reached for it, and I reacted, oh, no, don't hurt it!
Before he had a chance to respond, I realized that he proceeded to check it out and started petting it with one finger, saying hi little guy...
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I was the guy in lane 7 during that heat.
They started the heat late because the board read the wrong heat. Gary asked me if this was the right heat because the board was wrong and that is when I realized that he had been seeded into my heat I had a little fun with it. I thought he took it great and seems like a very down to earth guy with a good sense of humor. He seemed very cool during the race "festivities" and shook my hand afterwards.
He did only touch me out by a mere 5 seconds. Had I not faded on the last 50 of the race I would have been closer....
However, the delay was to fix the timing board not because of me.
I was the guy in lane 7 during that heat.
They started the heat late because the board read the wrong heat. Gary asked me if this was the right heat because the board was wrong and that is when I realized that he had been seeded into my heat I had a little fun with it. I thought he took it great and seems like a very down to earth guy with a good sense of humor. He seemed very cool during the race "festivities" and shook my hand afterwards.
He did only touch me out by a mere 5 seconds. Had I not faded on the last 50 of the race I would have been closer....
However, the delay was to fix the timing board not because of me.
