I often think back to my first experience of meeting Meat. I had this idea that whilst he'd be reasonably polite, he'd still have that air of celebrity arrogance about him but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
I was terrified and I remember Meat asking me questions and just about managing to get out a few words in reply. I jumped when he put his arm around me for the photo and by that point I wanted the ground to swallow me up. As soon as the photo was taken, I almost dashed off like a little frightened rabbit but Meat called me back and did the fist pound that he'd greeted everyone else with that evening.
I think he could tell that I was terrified and was very gentle in his approach with me and when I reflected on it a couple of years later, I think that he could quite easily have let me run off after the photo but he didn't and wanted to let me know that by calling me back, that it was okay and he totally got it.
I didn't feel that there was any arrogance to him at all, just a genuine human being who was showing a little kindness. :)
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