I guess if you have nothing better to do for 11 days
I'm not a crazy Harry Potter fan. I like it. I also like soup. But I wouldn't wait outside for 11 days for soup. Unless it was really good soup. Squash bisque, maybe. I love that stuff, even though friends say it looks like...well, use your imagination.
But here's a story on two teens waiting 11 days in a bookstore in Fairbanks, Alaska for the last Harry Potter novel. An 11-day vigil, as the article calls it. From the Associated Press:
Chloe and Sydney Bostian started camping out Tuesday in front of Gulliver's Books in Fairbanks to be among the first Alaskans to find out their hero's fate in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
(Editor's Note: Well, at least they're waiting outside of a local, independent bookstore! Gulliver's Books. But take that praise with a grain of salt...I usually frequent Borders.)
They have reserved four copies of the book, but the wait isn't about that. They wanted to beat their friend, Graham Tordoff, 18, to the front of the line.
"He beat me once and I've been in line first ever since," Chloe said. "We're pretty die-hard."
(Editor's Note: Uh-huh, I bet Graham Tordoff is proud as hell with all this free publicity. Earned media, as they call it in our business. Of course, the downside is that now millions of people will probably take it upon themselves to refer to him as Turd-off, which I bet he's lived with for quite some time. Kids can be ruthless. Don't even get me started on the song Stacy Traylor made up about me in 7th grade. Grr.....)
Tordoff, who has known Chloe since they were toddlers, has pre-ordered two copies of the book. He got in line after the girls and plans to be there sporadically — he has a job — until the release.
"Chloe and her sister were first, I suppose. It's depressing," he said, laughing. "She earned it; she's good."
(Editor's Note: I hope this story ends with Graham and Chloe getting married. And then they can have a Harry Potter-themed wedding. But as an aside, how can you be in line sporadically? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of forming a line? Oh, and Graham, it's not really depressing being second in line. Malaria is depressing. Being second in line just means you have to work it a little harder.)
At Gulliver's, it's the festivities that are the main attraction, Chloe said. People show up in costume — Chloe's going as Mrs. Figg, the cat lady — and there are games, crafts, food and the occasional unicorn.
Chloe said she expected some company around the beginning of the week, and by the day before the release, the line should be wrapped around the building, judging from past releases.
"It's just so fun to stay in line 'cause everyone gets so into it," she said. "I'm just enjoying this because it's my last summer before I go to college."
(Editor's Note: Someone should tell this girl that she's probably going to have a lot more fun in college. But true that, there likely won't be any unicorns in college. Although for a Halloween party one time, a friend of mine dressed up as Pan. That might come close.)
But here's a story on two teens waiting 11 days in a bookstore in Fairbanks, Alaska for the last Harry Potter novel. An 11-day vigil, as the article calls it. From the Associated Press:
Chloe and Sydney Bostian started camping out Tuesday in front of Gulliver's Books in Fairbanks to be among the first Alaskans to find out their hero's fate in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."(Editor's Note: Well, at least they're waiting outside of a local, independent bookstore! Gulliver's Books. But take that praise with a grain of salt...I usually frequent Borders.)
They have reserved four copies of the book, but the wait isn't about that. They wanted to beat their friend, Graham Tordoff, 18, to the front of the line.
"He beat me once and I've been in line first ever since," Chloe said. "We're pretty die-hard."
(Editor's Note: Uh-huh, I bet Graham Tordoff is proud as hell with all this free publicity. Earned media, as they call it in our business. Of course, the downside is that now millions of people will probably take it upon themselves to refer to him as Turd-off, which I bet he's lived with for quite some time. Kids can be ruthless. Don't even get me started on the song Stacy Traylor made up about me in 7th grade. Grr.....)
Tordoff, who has known Chloe since they were toddlers, has pre-ordered two copies of the book. He got in line after the girls and plans to be there sporadically — he has a job — until the release.
"Chloe and her sister were first, I suppose. It's depressing," he said, laughing. "She earned it; she's good."
(Editor's Note: I hope this story ends with Graham and Chloe getting married. And then they can have a Harry Potter-themed wedding. But as an aside, how can you be in line sporadically? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of forming a line? Oh, and Graham, it's not really depressing being second in line. Malaria is depressing. Being second in line just means you have to work it a little harder.)
At Gulliver's, it's the festivities that are the main attraction, Chloe said. People show up in costume — Chloe's going as Mrs. Figg, the cat lady — and there are games, crafts, food and the occasional unicorn.
Chloe said she expected some company around the beginning of the week, and by the day before the release, the line should be wrapped around the building, judging from past releases.
"It's just so fun to stay in line 'cause everyone gets so into it," she said. "I'm just enjoying this because it's my last summer before I go to college."
(Editor's Note: Someone should tell this girl that she's probably going to have a lot more fun in college. But true that, there likely won't be any unicorns in college. Although for a Halloween party one time, a friend of mine dressed up as Pan. That might come close.)
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