Is that... Jimmy Carter?

That’s frickin’ Jimmy E. Carter, standing right over there with some secret service bodyguards around him. What the hell is he doing here?

This dude is a living legend, the icon of progress and peace within Georgia. He was Governor here in the seventies, back when it was still a state. Then he was the 39th/41st President of the United States, the one who basically helped keep the country together for a few extra years before it collapsed completely thanks to his successors. Then he even served as Georgia’s first President for six months (not that that job is anything but ceremonial).

Still, he’s already in his late eighties, and yet he’s still going at it, getting a Nobel Peace Prize a few years back for solving the Korean Crisis. This guy basically prevented World War III.

And... he’s standing here, like fifty feet away from me, with almost no fanfare. He’s staring at his convention map, looking like he’s just wandering the place. I’ve only been to this tech expo a couple times before, when Mark used to come up from Tallahassee for business meetings, but I certainly don’t remember a former President of the United States attending.

He’s not being stealthy or anything. He’s even got the little American flag pin that they always put on for public events.

Should I...

Could I even....

Would it be proper to...

Like, could I just... go up and talk to him?