Posted on 11/18/2009 4:02:30 AM PST by taildragger
I love the smell of fresh ZOT in the... well... any time. :-)
I was wondering why the screenname did not appear when I posted my response and I figured as much! They are too predictable.
;)
Awesome!
Damn, I missed the troll!
what did that person say?
LOL. 6 a.m. Cartoon Carnival, the high quality animation!
Man, those were the days.
Another Freeper and I drove an hour and 45 minutes to get there yesterday morning at 5:15.
It took us 3 hours in line to get into the store where we both bought TWO books and got wristbands. The mall had a counter at the door - we were around 580 through the door into the mall with long lines following....
Rested, shopped and ate until 3pm when we got back in line for the signing.... got our books signed around 7:30pm.
When we got to the front of the store in the line (7:20), the line behind us went the length of the wing of the mall (maybe 200-300 people), zig zagged there for a couple of hundred people, and half way back to the outside door (another 100-200 people).
We had gone out to Auburn NY to see Sarah in June at the William Seward house - got our picture taken with her - and I had a t-shirt made up with that picture on the front.
Wore it to the signing and everybody liked it! When Sarah saw it we had a brief conversation about it and she even stood up to shake my hand and thank me for my support.... very nice lady!
thank you :)
Hi Mary,
I was successful, they did allow two books.
It was an all day affair but well worth the effort. With the number of people at the signing we didn't know if they would just shove us through or if we would have a chance to say something.
Some people spent the night outside the mall, the earliest people coming even before the mall closed the night before. I got there at 6:15 in the morning. On the way there, I was listening to WOOD 1300 and they said there were so many people at the mall entrance already, if you weren't there you might as well forget it. I decided I was not listening to that, but I wonder how many people didn't come because of what they said.
They were opening the doors at 7:00 to give out the wristbands and sell the books. The actual book signing started at 6:00PM. It was chilly and breezy outside, but not frigid and the only thing that got really cold were my feet. Should have worn hiking boots instead of shoes. A really cute young couple, newly married, was in front of me in line. The guy was very tall and very cold, but his wife wouldn't let him leave. We finally made it to the Mall doors by 9:30 and that was welcome warmth.
... When I finally got to her table, she shook my hand, I thanked her for coming to Grand Rapids and told her that my son Matt wanted me to tell her he thought she was awesome. She, looked up, flashed that great smile, and said to tell him thank you very much, and thanks for the encouragement. She struck me as very genuine, no special airs, certainly not a diva.
I plan on putting the book in the mail to you tomorrow. Consider it my Christmas present to you guys. I had a lot of fun, met a lot of neat people in line and even saw Andrea Mitchel, NBC News. She is a little person with quite a large nose.
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