Snowin’ Like A Mad Bastid!
Posted January 12th, 2009 by Jill Conner BrowneFinally, accidently hit the right button to make this work! Big event @ Big Hat Books in Indy–HUGE fun! New store will be amazing. Liz is the only Independent bookseller the we know of who is GROWING!!! MUCH Barefoot was consumed! Thanks Jen for your support. The event was a fundraiser for Dress For Success. Plus people brought clothes & we auctioned one of my Larry Vrba bracelets.
I sent Kyle around the store displaying the bracelet before the auction–which was making them wimmin (full of barefoot) wild; so, in the True Spirit of FUNraising, I told ‘em they could pat on him for $1. That really set ‘em off; so, I said that for $5 they could stuff it into his jeans! BIG HIT…with him and them! He collected a jar full of cash–a couple of hundred bucks! We are nothing if not Civic Minded!
I tried to post this last night while riding toward DC in a freakin’ snow storm and some screaming warning going off under the bus dash board! After Kyle dismanteled the bus–rather than reading the directions or first calling the owner for guidence–he FINALLY called the guy who said, “wrap a sock around it and keep going!” I bet that when Kyle got up under the dash he found a sock already up there that had worked itself loose!
See y’all in DC tomorrow–provided the bus and us make it!
5 Responses to “Snowin’ Like A Mad Bastid!”
January 12th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I am sure duct tape was involved as well . . . hehehe! Drive safely!
January 12th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Your blogs are cracking me up! Glad to see that Kyle took one for the team with those fives! I’m reading Thighs now and was laughing so hard in a waiting room this afternoon that people were staring! Drive Safe!
January 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am
The High temperature for Friday in Alpharetta will be 31 degrees. Of course – that’s mid day. So bundle up.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Well, YRH, if you’d scheduled your tour in JANUARY for Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Palm Beach, rather than the frozen tundra of the midwest, then you could be down here with me wearing shorts and sandals, lolling on the beach and sipping frozen alcoholic concoctions. I’ll just leave you with this tidbit of info – it’s EIGHTY here today. 80 Freakin’ Degrees!! I don’t even OWN socks!! EIGHTY! OK, I’m just jealous because I don’t get to see you, and I don’t get to spend that $5.00. *sniff*
January 17th, 2009 at 10:15 am
You know..I am going to use that saying next time I run into a problem..”Wrap a sock on it and keep going” I bet you missed the “Big Ass Bus”…We had a great time at Big Hat in Indy. Snow storm going home really stunk. Our driver was sober which put her in an ill mood when the rest of the drunks thought everything was really funny.