Stories

[magicman1]

Hey guys, just wondering what your strangest success or failure story is. I don't have one yet , I just started collecting. But I'm sure all of you who have been collecting for a while have one. Many thanks in advance!

[lizane]

Hey magicman1!

Well, first off I'm very sure there's many others here who has much better and stranger stories than mine, but I'll tell anyways!

One of my "all-time" strange stories will always be my Daniel Craig success. I wrote to him somtime early 2007, after the release of "Casino Royale", but Daniel started sending out preprints (but I wrote anyways). A few months later, I think in September '07, I got an envelope from the UK (which was delayed due to insufficient postage - thanks to myself! ) and when I opened it, I thought it's going to be a preprint - but Daniel signed and personalised the photo to me! I was very surprised but thrilled nonetheless too!

Thanks,
zanne

[aamir]

Well, I don't have any good stories, but here's one:

I sent an email to Jonas Bjorkman in November sometime, and I recieved an autograph in late December. That's all well and good, but then in late January, he sent me another autograph, signed with a different pen. I only sent him 1 email, but I'm still happy.

[x hayley x]

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.

[aamir]

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...

[x hayley x]

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.

[qwertyuiop]

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

[Selise]

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.

[lizane]

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!

[magicman1]

Great Stories!!