Ok, so when are you going to line up at the store????

[justcarol67]

Michelle Tague wrote:
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> 
> I'm excited!  I'm ½ through HBP and am ready to crack open my book
> tonight/tomorrow
 I've never done a midnight pickup
 I'm going to try
> tonight!

Carol responds:
I picked up my wristband fairly early (10 a.m.--the store opened at 9)
and managed to get in the third group. I decided to go to Borders for
my first- (and last-)ever Potter party. What a letdown! No pumpkin
juice or treacle tarts; a few activities for children (best costume
contest, etc.--I wasn't wearing one). I couldn't even concentrate on
"The Great Snape Debate"--I picked up a copy but there was nowhere to
sit down and read it. (Ever tried sitting on a carpeted floor and
leaning against a bookshelf when you have virtually no body fat to
cushion you?) It wasn't fun, so I spent the time wandering around,
speaking to a few adults wearing "Snape Is Loyal" stickers, but no one
had anything intelligent to say (Confunded by that diabolical JKR,
every one of them). I finally walked to the back of the store to get
in line, almost the last person in my group. The line moved fairly
quickly and I managed to pass the time in small talk about how
exciting this one-of-a-kind experience was (*not* the Potter party but
anticipating the revelations), picked up my book after exchanging a
word or two with the cashier about his "wrong" choice of Snape
stickers ("He'd better have a good reason; that's all I can say,"
retorted the cashier.) I drove off with his words in my mind,
postponed opening the book until I had unrolled my poster and put
heavy books on it to flatten it, and grabbed a sandwich (I was
starving, having anticipated refreshments for which you didn't have to
wait in line or, erm, pay). And then the real fun (or was it torture?)
began.

Carol, glad that she had that "purple C) wristband but wishing that
she'd waited another hour (making and eating a late dinner!) before
heading off to Borders