Well, I have been talking about this day all weekend! Tony Dungy was signing his new book this evening from 7-9 at a nearby Barnes and Noble. They were going to start passing out bracelets at 5 pm. They were not willing to say how many bracelets they would pass out or how many people they thought would get through the line. I spent the day at the zoo with the kids and drove past the B&N on the way home. It was 2:40 and there were already a lot of people sitting on the sidewalk outside the store. I was bummed! Mitch got home at 4:00 and said he needed a short nap. I made supper, we ate, I left for the store around 5:15. I got there at 5:45 and my bracelet number was 667 (they started at 1). I was fairly discouraged but thought I would mingle in the crowd for awhile. after the first hour they were somewhere around number 175-200 so I was pretty discouraged and left. Went to Target and then to Steak and Shake for a Strawberry Shake...yummy! Decided to go back. Sat with my next door neighbor and visited awhile. Then they announced that they were not letting any more people go through the line. The last person was around number 390:( My neighbor happened to notice a B&N employee with a cart full of Tony's book. She went and asked if they were presigned (we had heard there were some somewhere), turns out they were. They were trying to get organized but were struggling. They were going to allow people with prepurchased books to trade them for a signed copy. Long story short, somehow, my neighbor got lucky and they just swapped ours out quickly before anyone else saw. I am pretty sure that everyone else had to wait in a line or something. Nonetheless, I got a signed copy!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I came home to a dark and quiet house! What a day!
