According to Paul Rolly, a columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's book-tour trip to The Beehive State created a surprising cost for one local and a surprising benefit for another. According to the story, a Salt Lake City hairdresser was called at the last minute to touch up Palin's hair-do before a book-signing at a local Costco. She met the Palin group, and they ushered her to a 15th-floor room at Salt Lake's Monaco Hotel, where they gave her some instructions, which included, "Don't talk to Palin unless she talks first." After the stylist's job was done, the Palin group left as she was packing up her gear, but none of them mentioned payment or a tip before she saw them drive off. When she went to leave, the stylist found out the team didn't pick up her valet parking ticket, either. The person who got the gig for her contacted the Palin team about the matter, and they told the hairdresser to send them an invoice. The hairdresser is giving the Palin team the benefit of the doubt, though, in Rolly's paraphrase, "someone probably just dropped the ball." During Palin's book-signing at the Costco, one woman ( a Utah Democrat) who didn't know about Palin's appearance was surprised that the store didn't have any tomatoes. According to Rolly, store management had pulled all the tomatoes (including the grape tomatoes) off the shelves for a few hours to avoid an incident like the one that occured at Palin's Mall of America book-signing in Minnesota. When the shopper finally asked a manager why they didn't have any tomatoes, he gave her some for free. Read more here.