I Can’t Quit You… Oh Wait, Actually I Can!

21Nov/094

I Can’t Quit You… Oh Wait, Actually I Can!

So what's a former Alaskan Governor who quit less than halfway through her term going to do now that she's on a book tour? Quit again! While visiting Noblesville, Indiana this past Thursday Sarah Palin decided that the last 300 people who just spent three hours getting wristbands and an additional three hours waiting in line just weren't worth her time anymore.

Were they pissed? You betcha'!! The mob boo'ed and yelled as she pulled away in her book tour bus:

I would be angry too. If I ever write a book and have a signing you can bet dollars to donuts I'm not going to leave until all the books are signed, my hand falls off, or all the sharpies at the store run out.

Only 1,000 people were allowed to be in that line to have their books signed, so she let down almost a third of her most devoted fans. Many of them got there very early in the morning just to wait in that line. I feel bad that those people had to learn the hard way that Sarah is, in reality, exactly the twit they used to claim she's not.

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Mike V

I am no Sarah Palin fan, but I don't really see any reason to complain here. She showed early and stayed late. The reports say that she signed somewhere around 700 books. That is actually an unbelievable number, take that from someone who has been to his fair share of these things. Sarah Palin sucks, but not for this.
http://mike.shannonandmike.net Mike B.

I'm not sure asking her to sign 1,000 over the course of a day is asking too much. According to this random article, Roald Dahl once signed 3,000 over an afternoon:
“Roald Dahl used to complain about the cheek of Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, Ireland, whose proprietors persuaded him to fly to Dublin under his own steam, picked him up in a car, ferried him to the shop, gave him 3,000 books to sign all afternoon (buoyed up by cups of tea), before driving him back to the airport.”

Reasoning 3 books per minute (20 seconds per book to sign and chat), it should only take about 5.5 hours. Add in 1-2 hours for breaks and it should have been very do-able in 8 hours. Now I have no idea how much time she had, but regardless the signing was either poorly planned or poorly executed.
http://mike.shannonandmike.net Mike B.

Ok, I've been thinking about this and I think Mike V. is right. I was being unnecessarily harsh, probably due to my general distaste for other things Palin has said and done.

I leave the post and comments as-is to not disrupt the time-space continuum .
http://mike.shannonandmike.net Mike B.

Ok, I've been thinking about this and I think Mike V. is right. I was being unnecessarily harsh, probably due to my general distaste for other things Palin has said and done.

I leave the post and comments as-is to not disrupt the time-space continuum .