The Book Signing

I heard the full story told by Simon Armitage when he was a guest on Mark Radcliffe's Radio 2 show last week, and it sounded a lot funnier when fleshed out in full:

The book reading/signing is a common venue for humiliation, where victims are subjected to an assortment of difficulties, from flawed PA systems to rude spectators to an audience in the single digits. Simon Armitage, with time to spare before catching his train home after one such disappointing evening, finds a copy of one of his earlier works in the trash, signed in his own handwriting, "To Mum and Dad."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0007170580/102-8624198-2632117?v=glance

!SR