[Angelwood]

Thanks for your pre-freep scouting and investigating; thanks also for starting the thread regarding today's fun activities.

That loud woman who kept shouting at us was funny -- half the time we couldn't hear her and the other half, we couldn't understand what she was saying. When she got halfway into the street to confront us, she was waving her book over her head and at us. I caught the gist of her words -- "You too poor to buy a book! You want this one." The policeman moved to intercept her since she wasn't looking and cars kept driving by. She kept waving the book and shouting, so some of us began to chant: TOSS IT, TOSS IT, TOSS IT! She didn't, of course.

That woman kept losing her cool because she couldn't stand the fact that we had a perfect right to be exactly where we were doing what we were doing and she couldn't make us stop. Her daughter chimed in when she ran out of steam and rested.

A black guy came out of Wal-Mart and crossed to our side of the street on his way to his car. He stopped and graciously showed us his trophy and posed with it for a photo. We also got a close-up of the signature. I told him he was duped -- that signature didn't look anything like the one on the cover! We all laughed. "HILLARY" was pretty clear, but Ms. Clinton wrote a ragged "R" and what looked like "Cl" for Clinton.

On Channel 9 or 4 there was a close-up of Hillary inside Wal-Mart. She hurriedly dashed a scrawl across the page and then looked up with eyes wide open at the person in front of her. Everyone with a signed book is lucky to have her scrawl -- and some of the books were already destined for E-Bay (their owners told us so as they posed with the books while holding our signs).

I'll write more tomorrow -- it's late and the DC Chapter has another date with Hillary at the Trover Books and Cards store at 221 Pennsylvania Avenue tomorrow at Noon.

[CobaltBlue]

Have fun Freeping at the Trover on Pennsylvania. If you get hungry or thirsty, we really like the Hawk and Dove, 329 Pennsylvania.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=entertainment/profile&id=791798

Metro stop, Capitol South. Close to the Library of Congress, the Capitol building, the Supreme Court, and so forth. If the weather is good ya'll should have a wonderful time.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

some of the books were already destined for E-Bay (their owners told us so as they posed with the books while holding our signs).

Ha! That means they're probably not even going to crack open the cover to read the fiction inside. It'll be interesting to monitor E-Bay and see how the auction(s) on this item go (evil grin).

[sweetliberty]

"The policeman moved to intercept her since she wasn't looking and cars kept driving by"

Maybe she was one of those kids whose parents told her to go play in traffic and she took them at their word.