America shared these concerns. Because i got letters by the sackful from people giving me advice on how to avoid bear attack while hacking. Here the basic advice seems to be to go hiking with someone who cant run as fast as you can. [laughter] but there was one letter i got from a lady in New Hampshire that pleased me. When you go hiking out west in grizzly bear country. Two things they tell you you should do whenever you go. First, you should wear bells on the clothing. Because this alerts the bears youre coming and dont overtake them by surprise. The second thing they tell you you should do everywhere you go look on the ground in front of you for grizzly bear dung. The way you can recognize it has bells in it. [laughter] its one other story i want to tell you. Its on my mind. When i say im happy to be back in america. Im happy for all kinds of reasons. But one of them because its the world series. Its the playoffs of the world sugary series. I know, its slightly a touchy issue in atl
They only put out six chairses. They told me it was a pretty good turnout for me. [laughter] its a true story. Five people turned out. One was a store manager. She wasnt going to buy any books. Two more were my friends of parents who retired to pennsylvania from iowa. And had come only to find out how my mom and dad were doing. The fourth was a guy named bill bryson who had some preposterous in West Virginia or anyway from out of state. Driven had long way so we could stand together and look at the drivers license. [laughter] and marvel at the fact we were named bill bryson. The fifth person was his wife who didnt seem want to spend the evening with anybody named bill bryson. So this is really fantastic. Im very grateful for you turning out ton a friday night like this. Im grateful. Theres something about getting up in front of a room full of people. Particularly in such a distinguished setting that make me feel i ought to Say Something important to a i have to warn you have never been