Meeting you – Meeting me

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RevRick and me… or should that be Meeting you – Stalking me?  I had the distinct and unexpected pleasure of meeting RevRick this morning. 

Upon exiting our hotel in Nashville and heading to our bikes to load up for the ride home I noticed a gentleman standing near our bikes.  That’s not unusual because people are always giving them the once-over.  I can’t remember exactly what he said but it was something like “Nice bikes, Jonco” or something similar with my name after it.  It took me about a second and a half to realize this guy knew who I was.  Then it dawned on me that it was probably (hopefully) a B&P reader than knew I was there.  And I was right.  Rev Rick introduced himself.  I think he said he worked not too far from our hotel and just wanted to stop by and meet me. (He didn’t ask for my autograph though.  What’s up with that?)

We had a brief but nice conversation before he excused himself and left.  (My security staff was nowhere to be found.  I’ll have a talk with them about this.)  🙂

Oh, and Rev… the voices aren’t just in your head.  I heard them too.

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35 thoughts on “Meeting you – Meeting me”

  5. Well Jonco If you are ever in Buffalo I plan to meet you. I will buy you some buffalo food and a beer. If you make the sign-of-the-cross at me and run away I will be sad. Buffalo is a pretty decent town, good place to stop off on the way to the border. I know this town fairly well.

  6. If you can make it over to Birmingham (England), I’ll be glad to give you a chip buttie and a cup of tea and show you some of the better pubs.
    Mind you, this is going to cost you dearly when we arrange the BitsNPieces day trip to St Louis and you have to cater for a bus load.

  9. Woohoo Rev! I am so impressed that you stalked found Jonco! And now I know what you look like!
    You are so popular Jonco! Does Mrs Jonco get sick of the screaming fans? lol @ the items lost. Where you going so fast that your shirt just blew right off?

  12. LMAO @ Revy. You’re not scary looking at all and did an excellent job Inspector Clouseau of tracking down the illusive Jonco. Pretty darn amazing for a city that size. I’m truly impressed!

  14. Lesson 1 – look for bars and restaurants with motorcycles
    Lesson 2 – approach strangers in parking lots
    Lesson 3 – ensure insurance is up to date (see Lesson 2)

  16. Yeah, I was surprised by how tall he was. I have a 17″ monitor and he’s much taller in person.

  21. The second pic is actually a fish finger buttie. Fish fingers between two pieces of buttered bread.
    I couldn’t find a picture of a dog dick buttie, sorry.

  23. Boy, fame is sure fleeting around B&P. Less than one day and I’m already in the ‘older entries’. However, I’d like to add a little public service announcement.
    Finding Jon was definitely a pleasure and a lot of luck. But for those of you that are fairly new to the web, be careful what you put out there, no matter how innocuous it might seem. Jonco mentioned Music Row in a post and I drove to the area and immediately found him. Like I said, pure luck. However, sometimes when you’re chatting with strangers, you’ll put information out that can be easily put together.
    Back in the late 90’s, I was chatting with a lady on the web. No real names were used, but in conversation, she mentioned her children (and for some reason, even with a handle, people mention their kids/spouse real names, pets, etc). Talked about how her husband had died about a year previously and that it was from X, mentioned that her daughter was the editor for a newspaper, etc. Taken by themselves, they were innocuous pieces of information. However, over the course of 2-3 days, she had given me a bunch of information that could have easily been used to find everything about her. I kept telling her she needed to be more careful what she posted, but she said it was nothing. Now, part of my job is correlating information, so I looked at the ‘bits & pieces’ she’d provided including the state she was in and was able to determine her name, her late husbands name, where her daughter worked, son went to college, etc (it all showed online in the obituary for her husband that I found just by targeting the timeframe and cause of death in the general geographical area. Needless to say, she was a little spooked. However, I’m sure she’s much more careful now (strangely enough, I never was bothered by her again.) Now, the moral of this story is, protect your information. By social engineering (just talking with folks and lending an ear), hackers find all kinds of info about companies and individuals. This info can be sold, exploited, or used in other ways. Make sure your kids understand this as well. They’re more trusting and innocent in these ways than most adults and need to know just because they think they’re covering their tracks, they’re not.
    Keep safe.

  25. revrick – Wow man, very interesting. Good advice.

    Now you’ve got me all worried…what if Bella or Bitsy or even Kate decide to stalk me and track me down and have their way with me here in Ohio at phone number 440-555-1234 on Main Street in the brick house with the Christmas lights still up next to the big willow tree knock like this two longs one short or better yet the key is under the brick next to the bbq grill be careful to go to the last doorway in the hallway the other one is my son’s and he knows karate lookout there’s a squeeky floorboard in front of the bathroom where you can freshen up?

    I better go get a haircut and a case of Old Spice…

  26. revrick – I think I remember that incident you were talking about from the 90’s.
    Did they ever find the body??

  27. Honestly, Deej, I was reluctant to even write that because it does sound so spooky, but I had young kids at the time and was sitting there thinking that this lonely widow was pouring her heart out to a stranger without any awareness of what she was actually saying (btw, this was COMPLETELY innocent chat). She’d mention one of her kids names and ask about mine and I’d say something like Thing 1 and Thing 2 have gone to bed or Rif & Raf are in trouble again. Now I can tell you, it’s a sick world (don’t get me wrong, I LIKE it!) and folks believe there’s a certain degree of anonymity on the web that’s not there. Sometimes folks have a reason to be paranoid.
    But, don’t worry, DJ. I think someone would be more likely to step out from the bushes in the parking lot after you got off from work and…(cue quotes from Isiah)

  31. rev – All kidding aside, you make very good points. I can’t believe the info people post in Facebook, Craigslist, etc and all those places. In doing some genealogical searching, I was amazed at how easy it was to find people; of course most of them were already dead, but still, like you said, that info can lead you to the live ones. The kids…high school, junior high, and even younger, have no concept of privacy and what can happen when you tell (or show) all online.

  35. condom-mints; Hey isn’t that what they leave on your pillow when they make up your room in those hoity toity hotels?

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