"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> "Goomba38" > wrote
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>> Nancy Young wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> 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.

Couldn't agree more, Nancy. The public made him what he is; hold off on
being nasty until after the book-signing.

There are worse jobs/tasks he could be doing than greeting people and
signing a bunch of books. I'm sure there are lots of cooks/cookbook authors
just dying to trade places with him.

Mary