Well my experience meeting any 'catters is slim indeed...
...but definitely NOT meaningless. On the contrary.

The only fellow I've met is Big Mick and what a pleasure that was---and what a window into the soul of a VERY honourable man.

In a rather off-handed way Mick and I had decided to hook up when I was in his "neigborhood" doing the East Lansing Art festival. When I'm on the road there is really no way to contact me and in the meantime the demands of work took Mick on a trip east of his own.

Anyway, on his way home, road-weary, drained and little but home on his mind, it occurred to him that he'd said he'd come by to meet me.

If Mick tells you he'll do something....he'll do it by-god. I'm not sure I would have had the character he showed to find a parking place, walk through block upon block of crowded street and sidewalk (the show draws 25,000 per day) just to keep his word to a virtual stranger.

He had little to gain, but he sure gained my respect!