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My first thought was whether or not women read more than men or buy more books than men. My wife bought a lot more shoes than I did but I rarely went out without shoes. Our closet space was 90% hers and 10% his but I never went out naked.
Second, I have always been a reader and the two impediments to reading were having to work for a living and my wife. Once I was single and retired, bingo, I read a lot more.
I do have fond memories of being engrossed in a book and realizing my wife was looming over me. "Aren't you planning on doing anything this weekend?"
"I am doing something. Something I enjoy. I'm reading a book. What did you have in mind?"
"Would you rather go to the mall, shopping?" Yeh, right, but to be honest I'd usually end up sitting on a very uncomfortabe bench in the mall reading my book.
When I get on a plane and check out the other passengers the non-readers seem to be male and female. I think airlines should give these poor people drugs so they can just drift away for the duration of the flight.
The way to solve the population problem is to have public schools teach sex the way they teach reading. By the time kids reached puberty they wouldn't want to do it.
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