apparently I'm not a fan of anything.

Fan, from the word fanatic--
Main Entry: fa·nat·ic
Pronunciation: \fə-ˈna-tik\
Variant(s): or fa·nat·i·cal \-ti-kəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin fanaticus inspired by a deity, frenzied, from fanum
temple — more at feast
Date: 1550
: marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion


Friday and Saturday, we spent 24 hours at the Kansas
City Royals FanFest.

Not so much in the spirit of the game, you understand,
as in the spirit of good, old fashioned entrepreneurship.
(The Baseball Card Store, serving Kansas City collectors
since 1988.)

Anyway, there were people there who waited in long, snaking
lines for autographs; five and one half hours of wait by one
of our customers.

People of the world, there is no one alive for whom I would
wait five hours to have their name on a piece of paper.
Maybe if it were for their signature on a check for a hefty
sum of money, but not, nay nay, for just an autograph.

In my much younger years, I did wait in a few substantially
shorter autograph lines, but that was for Mickey Mantle and
Joe DiMaggio. You know--Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio, two
of the all time greatest players in the history of baseball?
Those guys.


Who (alive) would you wait in line five hours for?

Anyone?