Freddie Laker
A few years ago I had to travel up to Manchester Airport for a meeting to negotiate a maintenanance contract with a new customer.
The new customer was Laker Airways Mk2 (based out of Florida) - I was expecting to meet up with their Maintenance Manager and Lawyer - I did not expect Sir Freddie to be in attendance, but he was, and spent all day in the meeting - an absolutely charming and charismatic man.
At the end of the meeting I asked Freddie if I could have one of his business cards, as "my wife will not believe me when I tell her I have spent all day with Freddie Laker".
On hearing that, he said "I can do better than a business card" and whipped out of his brief case a large glossy photo which showed him pictured in front of one of his DC10's and said "what is your wife's name?".
I told him, and he wrote on the back of the photo "XXXX always believe what your husband tells you" and signed it.
Absolute legend.
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