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Last week our library got Charlaine Harris to talk. People have been waiting since 4pm. The event is at 7pm, but she didnt' get there till 7:30, or something like that. Anyway, most of my co-workers got in, but you had to have a ticket. I'm not sure if you needed a seperate ticket to get the author to sign you stuff.
Anyway, one of my cw, let's call her G, was sitting almost next to another person, ie, there is one seat between them empty. The other person was nuts. Talking to herself nuts. And smelled. And put her bag and stuff on the empty chair. Soon, of course, the organizers asked if there were any empty chairs and my cw raised her hand, thinking, "great, there will be someone between me and the crazy, smelly woman." So a person goes to the chair and the couple next to the other woman said, "oh, sit next to us!" But the couple do not know this person getting a seat. They just wanted smelly, crazy woman to move! Crazy woman is giving ugly looks at my cw for raising her hand to let the organizers know there was an empty chair.
So through the whole thing my cw had to endure crazy woman talking to herself. At the end of the program, crazy woman apologized to G for being upset about the chair, and G told her that she(crazy woman) was rude for mumbling through the program.
But G got autographs and pics. She lucked out that some of the organizers let her get autographs before the author came in the room (or something).
Another cw got some almost-the-last-number so she was waiting to get her book signed. But Charlaine was signing up to 6 books and taking pictures, and bunch of people had 6 books and wanted more than one pic. in case the first one didn't turn out. So cw decided to buy the signed books at a bookstore.
Anyway, one of my cw, let's call her G, was sitting almost next to another person, ie, there is one seat between them empty. The other person was nuts. Talking to herself nuts. And smelled. And put her bag and stuff on the empty chair. Soon, of course, the organizers asked if there were any empty chairs and my cw raised her hand, thinking, "great, there will be someone between me and the crazy, smelly woman." So a person goes to the chair and the couple next to the other woman said, "oh, sit next to us!" But the couple do not know this person getting a seat. They just wanted smelly, crazy woman to move! Crazy woman is giving ugly looks at my cw for raising her hand to let the organizers know there was an empty chair.
So through the whole thing my cw had to endure crazy woman talking to herself. At the end of the program, crazy woman apologized to G for being upset about the chair, and G told her that she(crazy woman) was rude for mumbling through the program.
But G got autographs and pics. She lucked out that some of the organizers let her get autographs before the author came in the room (or something).
Another cw got some almost-the-last-number so she was waiting to get her book signed. But Charlaine was signing up to 6 books and taking pictures, and bunch of people had 6 books and wanted more than one pic. in case the first one didn't turn out. So cw decided to buy the signed books at a bookstore.
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