A few years ago, we went to eat lunch at a restaurant on Mother’s Day after church. Only my immediate family were present, so it was my wife and our three kids. We were at a family style chain restaurant. The hostess seated us with my son and I on one side of the table and my wife and daughters on the other side. We had been seated less than a minute when my son leaned over and whispered to me that he thought television celebrity Montel Williams was sitting at the table behind our women. I looked but couldn’t really tell. My son whispered across the table to tell his younger sister that he thought that Montel Williams was sitting behind her. She turned around and looked. When she turned back she was excited and whispered that she thought it was him too.
My kids decided that they wanted to meet Montel and began developing a strategy. They got up from the table and walked up next to his table and asked, “Are you Montel Williams?” He replied, “Yes I am and have a happy Mother’s Day!” I think this was his way of being as pleasant as possible and brushing them off. They didn’t really have anything else they wanted to say or do with him. They didn’t want pictures or autographs. And they bothered him about as little as anyone could. They came back to our table happy in their conquest.
I found out later that week that Montel Williams had married a local woman and they have a house in our town. Several people that I work with had seen him around that same time.