So Zoo comes home the other night and says, I think I really freaked out this woman on the train.
Now, Zoo always has train stories. A couple of weeks ago he IM’d me to let me know a pregnant woman almost threw up on him. Last week, it was sparks and fire coming out of the heat vent. So this could be anything.
Me: What did you do?
Zoo: Well, the woman sitting next to me was reading a romance. And so I said to her, oh, do you like to read romance and she was kind of like, sometimes. But I didn’t believe her – I think she thought I would make fun of her.
Me: (thinks that this is going downhill fast)
Zoo: So yeah, so I’m like, oh, my wife writes romance novels. And I gave her a bookmark.
Me: That old ratty one you keep reusing in whatever book you’re reading?
Zoo: No, I carry some of your new ones.
Me: Oh. What did she say?
Zoo: She just kind of took it. Looked freaked. Basically, I either made you a sale or lost you a sale.
Me: I don’t know if you should be my promo person. At least maybe not say that I’m related to you?
Zoo: Hey, at least I didn’t pass them out a Wake, like your mother did.
Me: You’ve got a point there.
LMAO! OMG, too funny. At least he tried. That counts for some thing, I guess
Lillie, he was pretty cute about it…until he left this morning and said something about doing more ‘train stalking’
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His heart was in the right place. Maybe she freaked because she likes your writting and just didn’t know what to say.
LOL, Marie – he’ll say, see, someone’s in my corner! But it wasn’t my book she was reading…I asked him what it was / how he knew it was a romance. He said, I could just tell…
So for all I know, it could’ve been like, a non-fiction political book…
LOL he sounds like such a trip. That’s kinda awesome really.
He’s funny about it, Brandy. And he does have a shelf in his office with my books on it, so he’s very supportive. And scary…
LOL! Maybe she thought he was going to try and pick her up? Despite mentioning his wife.
Oh, Tori, maybe!!!
Your mother passed out your bookmarks at a wake? That’s dedication!
Oh Emily, she did! It was for my aunt, who died at age 103, so the wake was definitely more of a celebration / remembrance of her life. And cousins and aunts and uncles I hadn’t seen for a while were asking about my books and all of a sudden my mother whips a plastic baggie out of her pocketbook and starts passing out the bookmarks. (Seriously – I was like, mom, please – put those away…)
So everyone was walking around the wake holding their prayer cards and my bookmarks.
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