Being chased around a grocery store by a determined book-bearing person, who demands that you sign said book for them and will not let up,..sounds like a joke,...until YOU,..yourself,..are the person, who is the "chasee," and you are being "harassed" by a chaser!

And when you knock over a "cart-load" of ripe tomatoes to escape such an enthusiast,...guess who ends up paying for the tomatoes? Out of the chaser and the "chasee,"...the person, who is doing the fleeing usually is the one, who has to shell out!!

Put yourself in Rosezelle's position,..you are almost totally deaf,..someone comes walking rapidly over to you waving a book and pen,...you are in the hospital and waiting news about your very ill husband,..a "reader" of your books comes trotting over and demands that you put pen to paper and sign your name for him or her.

Then,..that person leaves and comes back with another book,..and another book,..and another book,..it TURNS out that this person..OWNS... a bookstore and is charging an extra dollar or two for autographed books!! And there sits poor Rosezelle,..she does not know if her husband is going to live or die and all the greedy bookstore owner can think abut is, "Oh! There sits a well-known local author, who is fingerspelling with another woman,..who resembles a picture in one of my best-selling books! I'll just hop on over there and get some autographs, and to devil with the fact that someone in their families could be sick or dying,..I'll just get what I want from them!!"

This really did happen,..by the way!!

And,..yes,..I was the person,..who had to pay for the afore-mentiond..tomatoes!! Happily for me,..this does not happen very often!!

Most folks, who want a book signed,..are VERY NICE and polite people,..who're eager to share "how the Nellie Book changed my life stories" with Rosezelle or myself. I love hearing these stories..what I can understand of them,..but I hate the people, who harass one to make money off one, or who make you pay for the tomatoes!!