On Thursday afternoon, Bruce and I had this NSFW text exchange.
I was just about to go pick up the boys at school, but luckily my friend Tiffany was with me and she said she’d tell them I’d be a little late if I wanted to pop over to Google. So I rode over there (across the street) and saw outside the visitor’s entrance a black suburban, presumably waiting for Bono’s return. So I plopped down on a bench and asked Bruce to come out and join me for a casual visit.
Pretty soon Bono emerged from the building with his host, Sergey Brin.
There was no press, no onlookers other than me and one other man who’d been sitting outside and called Bono over to chat, and only a couple of other people who seemed to be Bono’s mini entourage. He walked over to the car and chatted with Sergey a bit more about the driverless cars in the parking lot.
And then he was off. Seeing Bono so close to home and hearing his iconic voice made my day! Heck, it made my year!
As an added note, I’ve searched for news and/or pictures of this visit on the interwebs over the last couple of days and I can’t find anything. Apparently, even visits to Google[x] are super secret … or perhaps this was only a big deal to me.
(More pictures here.)