Nancy Young wrote:
> "Goomba38" > wrote

>> So perhaps some of these authors aren't as comfortable doing the "off the
>> cuff" chatting and glad handing as they are assumed to be?
>
> 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.
>
> Especially not to my beloved Margaret.
>
> nancy
>
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?