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November 14, 2002 was a night that none of our family will soon forget. We are AVID Sterling Marlin fans. We had seen a commercial on tv, earlier in the week, that he was going to be at the Tampa Convention Center, signing autographs. Wow, we thought....we can actually meet our favorite driver in person! Then, reality hit, and we realized that we had an appointment set for that date, and we didn't think we would have to time afterward to drive to Tampa and get there while the autographing session was still going on. We firmly believe that everything happens for a reason, and sure enough.......the appointment was cancelled by the other man and we would get to go, after all! Traffic was "horrible", at best, and it seemed like it took forever to get there. We arrived and started searching for a parking place. It seemed like every level was full, so Charlie drove to the underground garage. Anita spotted an open space, 2 cars in! We got there, finally got the tickets to get in and the ticket taker took forever to tear the stupid things. Apparently Anita's disgust with him was visible, because he told us exactly where Sterling was....it must have been apparent that was the "only" reason we were there, since we had on our #40 shirts and had camera in hand..lol! We got to where he was and got into the line that went CLEAR around that part of the building. We started taking notice of the things that people had brought to have signed.....car hoods, tires, stand-ups....man, if we would have known it was going to be "this" organized, we would have brought some of OUR big stuff! |
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