Pat Conroy

So Pat Conroy is my favorite author. And he just came out with a new book on Tuesday called My Reading Life which I'm dying to read. And I looked him up online at http://www.patconroy.com/ and found he was doing a book signing in Atlanta in a few weeks! How exciting! I think it'd be great to go and see and author I claim is one of my favorites. But I don't want to go by myself... So I email my Mom. I say 

Hey Mom
Wanna go to a book signing by Pat Conroy? He just came out with a new book today and he's one of my favorite authors.

She responds with:

Thanks so much for inviting me, m but I have to go vote and then work at chick fil a night and then pass out from exhaustion!

Love ya,

Mom

It was just pretty funny to me that she responded with such a formal thanks but no thanks. Maybe she thought there were other people I was inviting? But whatever it was I don't think she realized that I wouldn't go if she didn't go with me. Oh well. Guess I'll have to travel to South Carolina sometime soon to hear him and I would totally be okay with that.