Why do you say that??? Did you have a personal experience ????
I did. Good friend of mine works for HMS. Got us pit passes for the October race in '05, I believe, (Gordon ended up holding off Kyle Busch to win actually) and we, including my buddy, who is at every race and in Gordons pit for every race, were standing in front of the hauler waiting for Gordo to come back from the driver's meeting so my buddy could introduce us. Well, here he comes, (all 5 feet of him) my buddy says "Jeff, I'd like you to meet....." Jeff puts his hand up and says, "(my buddies name), I don't have time right now. If they want anything signed bring it too me in the trailer." as he walks by. Needless to say, my buddy was embarrassed.
It wasn't like we were in a mob of people grabbing him from every direction. We were in front of the hauler, 4 of us, right by ourselves, not even wanting to take up any more of his time than to say "Hi" and "Good luck tonight Jeff." That was actually the second "interaction" with him.
The first was a couple of days earlier. We were staying with my buddy doing some work on his house and he gets a text from Jeff saying that he's coming by for something and he'll be there in a few minutes. My buddy says that he'll see if Jeff will pop in and say hi. Sure enough, a big ass BMW pulls up out front, my buddy goes out to meet him and Jeff gets out (holding one of those little Paris Hilton dogs) and talks for a few minutes then leaves. My buddy comes back in and says that Jeff had a cold sore on his lip and didn't want to come in. Real nice.
Got to meet tons of other very cool people though. Leonard Wood, Will Perdue (former Chicago Bulls center that was there for HMS doing some sort of motivational speaking), Chad Knaus (really nice guy), Steve Letart (another really nice guy) all of the 24 pit crew and Tony Gibson (Jr's former crew chief) to name a few. So, it wasn't a one time thing where he might've been having an off day. He had at least 2 chances to be nice, but chose not to. Great driver, but not the nicest of people. Comes off as a whiner on TV and that's about what you get in person. Sorry to disappoint.