Great story. I always enjoy your personal stories, Craig.
Actually, I live in dread of meeting someone who changed my life or for whom I hold an inordinate amount of respect, admiration, awe, affection, etc. I'd be sitting there, thinking my face appeared to have a relaxed, devil-may-care, casual attentiveness, something like....
When, in fact, it would be frozen in an expression similar to...
It's always good to leaving a suave, sophisticated, man-of-the-world impression of oneself.