[HPFGU-OTChatter] How Stupid am I - and how will I cope?!

[Tonya Minton]

On Apr 4, 2005 1:01 PM, Karen Barker <karenabarker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I have ordered HBP from Amazon and cannot wait for the 16th July to 
> arrive - along with one or two of you I understand!
> 
> I have a long standing arrangement - ie it's all booked and has been 
> for a long while - to take my small son to the seaside for the 
> weekend together with his friend and his friend's Mum.
> 
> It has just sunk in that we are going on the 15th of July and coming 
> back on the 17th.   AAAAAgggggghhhhhh!  How could I be such an 
> idiot?!
> 
> I could just go and buy another copy at the seaside but then I will 
> just want to read it and that would be really rude.  I can't cancel 
> as that would be letting everyone down but I'll be really bad 
> company as I'll be on tenterhooks just dying to get back home to 
> read it.
> 
> So, when you are all reading your copies at 00:05 on 16th July, 
> please spare a small thought for me because I will be banging my 
> head on a table and shutting my ears in the oven door in a small 
> caravan at a seaside resort on the east coast of England!!
> 
> Karen
> 

You know what I do is order from Amazon the special deluxe copy of the
book then wait up all night and party with the rest of the plant and
get the regular copy at midnight so I can read and be happy!! 
Otherwise I would have the same situation as you!!  Good luck!!

Tonya