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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
My mom (who is an avid reader herself) once said, with a very exasperated tone, "Grace! I have never seen ANYONE in my life vacuum and sweep floors while reading a book!"
Yep, I got mom karma all right.... 
(and nothing wrong with the elbows and the nose slide, unless you've got a snotty nose. that minimizes readability....) |
Karma to you for the creative ways in which you find time for reading!
A friend of mine and I used to work side by side on a production line. Each of us would load boxes of empty jars from a pallet onto the line, then when our pallet was empty, place boxes of jars now containing peanut butter onto the pallet. Now, you can't very well read while loading boxes full of peanut butter; the boxes were heavy and took two hands. (Remember the song "16 Tons"? We estimated that during each shift, we each handled 32 tons of material.) However, loading boxes filled with empty jars could be done with one hand, so on the night shifts, when The Man wasn't there, whichever one of us was emptying his pallet of glass at the moment would be reading a book with the other hand, and when we weren't reading, we often as not would be discussing what we were reading.
People said our job was one of the most physically demanding ones at the plant, and many people couldn’t do it; but reading made it enjoyable.
You load 32 tons and what do you get? A bit more educated, if you try.