Well,..they had them packed into the Women's Club this morning!! I am surprised that they didn't have some folks hanging from the lighting fixtures!!
We made about four hundred dollars from book sales and I think that is a goodly amount of money to make for speaking for just one hour!!
I won't even discuss the speaker's fee!! Heh! That was icing on the cake!!

I have blisters on my fingers from signing my autograph!! Humility is not my strong point at this moment! I got hugged and kissed so many times by so many old ladies..that I am going to put up a sign,.."Have already washed my face! Don't drool on the speaker!!"

Then,..there was the usual, "God bless you! You must be a Saint!"
All that makes me feel as if someone have just made me eat a piece of cake that had a layer of sugery icing about two inches thick!! Baaaaargh!!
I like the little old ladies as individuals,..I really do,..getting mobbed by them is an experience that I would not wish on ANYONE!!
No matter where I went in the hall,..I was a queen bee in a mass of buzzing little seventy and eighty year old admirers..about a hundred and fifty of them all at the same time and suddenly,..I had to go to the bathroom..really bad!! Acccccccccck!
I handed my red coat and bundle of books to one of the little old ladies and asked her to hold them for me!! (Bad me! Evil me!!) The mass of buzzing little blue haired bees followed my coat and the stack of books to the side of the room...my decoy worked!!
With only about fifteen ancient admirers attached,..I made it to the ladie's room in the Women's Club Hall!! Then,...I got through the bathroom door and into a stall and got the stall locked.
Two peeked over the tops of the stall from the stalls on either side at me!! I smiled up at them and told them that I didn't need any help!!
After being witness to my bodily functions,...my admirers allowed me to wash my hands after much hugging and kissing all around and then,..I went back out to look for my book bundle and my coat!! I could find neither!

THAT LITTLE OLD WOMAN..STOLE MY COAT!! IT WAS COLD OUTSIDE!!

I was given a coat a size too small for me and assured that whoever had swiped my coat and books..would be drummed out of the Women's Club!! Rosezelle was laughing her ass off at me all of the way back to her office!!
I sincerely doubt it that my coat will show up on "Ebay," but I have a feeling that some little old hi-jacker of "speaker's" coats is going to make a "killing" with it at the next silent auction held by the Literary Ladies Group of this Women's Club!