- 20 Ιαν 2018, 12:39
#476065
Is Barack Obama a nice person when there isn't a camera around?
I met Obama once.
I worked with some chefs in Brussels Belgium who do pretty professional stuff (They are la creme de la creme literally) and we were doing catering for an ambassador at a reception hall that belongs to the NATO organization.
Plenty of security and helicopters and all, even in our kitchen we had police watching us, and they inspected the ingredients and inspected us thoroughly even before we got there.
I was in the kitchen doing dish washing, chopping onions, mopping, sweeping etc. While outside the reception went on.
After the dinner ended, Obama said a few words (I heard him from the kitchen), he thanked everyone. Some in the kitchen were curious to see him from afar but we were so busy we couldn’t and the cops at the entrance of the kitchen would not even let us get close to the door.
Anyway, after Obama gave his speech we thought it was over, as we were getting ready for clean up, the main chef came in smiling and told us to come out. (I was gonna fix myself and the chef said no no we don’t have time, come out like that).
I went out alongside the rest of the team, I had my rubber gloves, my hairnet, my rubber boots and my white uniform wet from doing dishwashing. What do I see? A bunch of ambassadors and their fancy guests clapping and thanking us for the great reception.
Who do I see at the front clapping and smiling with tons of charisma? OBAMA!
He came up to us and shook our hands. YES MY DIRTY HANDS, I SMELLED LIKE KITCHEN!
I told him that I was genuinely impressed, and it was an honor to meet him. He thanked me and looked at me straight into my eyes and said “Actually the honor is mine young man”, I apologized for my rubber gloves and my hands stinking of clorox and he said with a really down to earth tone, as if I was his good old friend “ah who cares my man, I am ashamed we’re making you work so hard back there to entertain us, thanks to you we had a memorable night ”
Everything about him looked genuine, easy going. His smile, his mannerisms, they exuded grace and charisma. You could see it in his eyes that he is a genuinely good man!
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