I sent the late great Sir Edmund Hillary a kind letter on behalf of my son in November 2007 only to hear on the news later that he sadly passed away on the 10th January 2008. Four days later a large envelope arrived for my son from New Zealand postmarked 6th January. It had amongst other things the great man's autograph. I had this over riding sense of guilt for bothering him when he was obviously very ill. It's sometimes easy to forget that celebrities have lives just like you and I filled with highs and lows and don't just sit around waiting for our fanmail to sign.

oh i got a few good stories( so bear with me if i ramble on)

one is about 4 years ago i met leaf legend johnny bower at a signing and i was wearing a doug gilmore leaf jersey, well so i go to the signing get a picture signed, then i go to take a picture with him he picks up his sharpie without asking and signs my jersey at the time i was upset because it was a brand new jersey and it was my first time wearing it, now i can never wear it again(thou it no longer would fit) but ya now if a celeb signed a second auto i definetly wouldnt get upset but its so funny in the picture with him i look upset. in the end it was actualy really nice of him to sign a extra auto for me, i guess it was because i still had the cutenesss apeal back then.

another good story is when i went on my vacation to new york 2 years ago i went to shea stadium ,anyway im at shea and while im waiting for the elevator baseball legend ralph kiner walks right next to me i didnt have a pen on me or nothing, so my dad asked someone for a pen then asked ralph if he could sign my ticket he did and he also took a picture with me really nice guy, the thing that makes this story so great is that my dad just wanted to walk up the ramp but i was like no lets take the elevator so taking the elevator not only saved us time but it got us a amazing autograph.

and last story is a ttm story when i wrote to bobby thomson another baseball legend one of the items i sent was a dual photo (two photos of him on one sheet) well i had only intetented one to be signed since i sent a qusteionaire and index card also but what do ya know he signed the picture twice.

so ya all three of these guys are not only sports legends but their also really classy guys funny thing is their in their all in their eigthies and retired from pro sports way before my time.

Hm.... I guess a COOL story is when the click five threw their guitar picks into the crowd at the end of their opening for Hilary Duff, the girl in front of me caught one. Then she was looking for something and I saw the pick, picked it up, and it was a pre print Hilary Duff auto on it. SNOOZE YOU LOSE! lol

I don't really have any stories yet since all of mine are like....... normal

Great Stories!!

x hayley x wrote:Well this was more funny than strange but oh well! Some of you will have heard me say this before so sorry if I'm repeating myself. Well in October I went to Alan Carr's book signing, he was joking about with everyone the entire time, he just made you feel so welcome, which was nice after the Michael Parkinson signing I went to a few weeks before where he was very rude to me and ignored me when I asked him a question. Well it was my turn to meet Alan and I had just come from University so I lay my Uni book down on the table underneath Alan's book that I was getting signed and I leaned in for a photo, well he signed his book on top, then he picked up my Uni book and he says "do you want me to sign that too?" and he went right ahead and signed it before I had time to say anything So I've had to go into Uni everyday since with my signed textbook I've had so many people ask me why I signed my book lol so I have to tell them the whole story.

Hayley, your story rocks - best one so far! {thumb2} I could imagine everyone's faces at uni asking about your signe textbook! Good memories!

I think my best success is from writing to a Pearl Harbor survivor and receiving a five page handwritten letter back to me as well as to my students. Considering the man is now 94 years old, his handwriting is amazing, and he still has all his faculties.

I've gotten incredible responses from Medal of Honor recipients and a survivor of the Bataan Death March. I asked the death march survivor if he had known my grandfather who made the Bataan death March and died as a POW in the Philippines during WWII, and he actually did remember my grandfather and told me a little about him. That to me is incredible, especially since I never met my grandfather, and my father was alive when I received that response, so that was one more piece of the puzzle that my father got to find out about who his father was. I'll treasure that response forever.

If I had one of my text books signed, I'd probably 'lose' it and get a new one

Nothing really that interesting has happened to me, I sent a letter and picture to a band, and received a letter about the same length as mine and a used guitar pick

aamir wrote:

x hayley x wrote:So I've had to go into Uni everyday since with my signed textbook I've had so many people ask me why I signed my book lol so I have to tell them the whole story.

Lol, that is so funny.
Although you must be rather proud...

Lol I'm very happy to have his autograph, and very grateful to him for signing more than one thing for me, but I like to keep my autographs safe. The book is already starting to wear at the edges, I have to use the book for the next 4 years, it's not gonna be long before the autograph gets damaged. So yeah I'm very proud of it, and it always makes me smile when I see it, but I'm just so glad I have his signed autobiography too so it won't be as disappointing if the autograph does get ruined.

x hayley x wrote:So I've had to go into Uni everyday since with my signed textbook I've had so many people ask me why I signed my book lol so I have to tell them the whole story.

Lol, that is so funny.
Although you must be rather proud...

Well this was more funny than strange but oh well! Some of you will have heard me say this before so sorry if I'm repeating myself. Well in October I went to Alan Carr's book signing, he was joking about with everyone the entire time, he just made you feel so welcome, which was nice after the Michael Parkinson signing I went to a few weeks before where he was very rude to me and ignored me when I asked him a question. Well it was my turn to meet Alan and I had just come from University so I lay my Uni book down on the table underneath Alan's book that I was getting signed and I leaned in for a photo, well he signed his book on top, then he picked up my Uni book and he says "do you want me to sign that too?" and he went right ahead and signed it before I had time to say anything So I've had to go into Uni everyday since with my signed textbook I've had so many people ask me why I signed my book lol so I have to tell them the whole story.