Met Connor

American Handgunner, July-August, 2008 by J.J. Miller

I was on a plane in the business section last week and as I got settled in I started looking around at my fellow passengers. In amongst the usual suits tied to the latest new fangled phone/PDA/laptop combo-with-earpiece I noticed a rather large muscular fellow dressed in jeans. He almost didn't fit the seat. Then I noticed his traveling companion. She was a strikingly beautiful woman with red hair. I got to thinking about the magazine I had in my carry on, an issue of Handgunner. I thought, "Could that be Conner and Memsaab?"

After about an hour I screwed up the courage to approach the guy and asked "Are you Mr. Conner?" He sized me up in about half a second, realized I was not a threat and said "Yep." I stuck out my hand and introduced myself and was in turn introduced Mrs. Conner. We struck up a conversation and he turned out to be a pretty nice fellow. He was traveling east to a well known training facility to teach some classes.

I went back to my seat and thought wow--I finally met Conner, and how cool is that? One thing is for sure though, after shaking his hand and meeting him in person I'm glad he's on our side.

J.J. Miller

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