"Goomba38" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I can definitely understand that. Jitters before a speaking performance,
>> who can't imagine that? I think I'd be Just get me some water and
>> go away and leave me alone. But in this instance, he's not speaking
>> before
>> a crowd, he's signing books and he'd been doing it for a while before
>> Margaret got to him. I guess he was just getting tired, but there was no
>> reason to throw a tantrum like that.

> But I can also imagine that these chefs and authors get tired of the book
> signing circuits and might feel as if the public is just sucking them
> dry...always expecting them to be witty, outgoing and friendly to the last
> person in line as the first and it was a line of a thousand. Perhaps some
> just arne't that way naturally and it is a struggle? I'm not excusing it,
> mind you... just speculating on why it might have happened?

Suck it up, man, we all have to do stuff we don't want to. He didn't
have to be particularly nice. Just Hi, sign the books, next. No excuse
to be actively hostile towards someone. You can have a tantrum later,
after work.

If he was acting nasty to some uninvited paparazzi, I'd say Good for
him.

nancy