Niska ,'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I've been known to read while stopped at traffic lights.
And this is unusual? Doesn't everybody? You have to have some reading material in the car, otherwise you have nothing to do when the freight train goes by except listen to the radio or count railcars (which I've done).
I can't read in thirty-second bursts, though.
Well, I almost never have to wait for trains where I live, so usually I don't have to stop for more than a minute or two tops.
I read through those really long lights and the drive home, through down town where people love to pull up into the intersection, so sure that the lane will clear before the light change, only to have the light change and then have to wait and wait until the intersection clears up.
And when I'm going home from the library, I'll read even though the traffic isn't bad, but new books! how can I not immediately delve into them?
And when I'm going home from the library, I'll read even though the traffic isn't bad, but new books! how can I not immediately delve into them?
I almost got run over by someone reading a book as they pulled out of the library parking lot.
If I see someone reading, eating, shaving while their driving, I'm likely to yell "Pay attention to the fucking road!" at them.
If I see someone reading, eating, shaving while their driving, I'm likely to yell "Pay attention to the fucking road!" at them.
The current epitome of this is effing cell phones. I know MA drivers are bad about running red lights anyway, but I've seen so many more lately and every. single. time. the driver is yapping away on a non hands-free phone. I'd love to rig up a system so that if red lights are run, an eardrum shattering feedback wave would hit anyone on a cell, except these drivers would probably end up taking out someone else when they reacted.
I don't read while driving at all, just during the lights. From the library to home the traffic is light so the wait at the lights isn't very long.
I gave up reading in the car after a close call, but I still try to have something in the car for traffic jams and trains. I've done a lot of walking while reading.
Which brings to mind a question: who else keeps a basket or other container of reading material in their bathrooms?
well, yeah. Also, my friends at work still call the bathroom (at work) the reading room.
I get weird black spots in my vision whenever I read in the car, particularly in the bright NM sun. Didn't stop me. I was frequently told to stop reading, either because I'd ruin my eyes and have to wear glasses or because I was supposed to be doing something else. This all from the maternal Quaker side; once my mother was out of the picture I could read all I wanted. Thankfully.
I can't read in a moving vehicle because of motion sickness.