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Originally Posted by barryem
I always used to carry a paperback in my back pocket wherever I went. The only time it wasn't there was at home.
In high school (about 1954 I think) a teacher saw a copy of my current book "Peyton Place" in my hip pocket and sent me to see the principal. I was sent home and told I had to bring my parents with me to get back in. The next day my parents came and my dad kind of exploded, telling the principal it was none of their business. The book was my parents book. They'd finished it and I was reading it, which was fairly usual. They compromised. I got back to school with a promise not to carry anymore paperbacks in my pocket. I did that till I was finished with that book and went back to carrying them. Nothing was said.
I've always read when I'm in public with nothing to do. Except for that one time nobody ever paid much attention. I don't think it's something people care about unless they see me reading a book that interests them and then they might want to discuss it.
Barry
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Originally Posted by crich70
I would read in study hall back when I was in High School. I'd have to look up now and then to make sure I hadn't missed hearing the bell.  |
I have always read in public. I have never cared what strangers think either. I have always had a book with me. When I was in school I would hurry to my next class so I could read, a few minutes, before the second bell rang. My father was military and we did a lot of traveling. I always carried lots of books along. My maternal grandfather and one of my paternal uncles were ravenous readers. One lived in Illinois and the other in Georgia. When we visited one the two of us would swap books. Then I would do the same thing with the other.
Apache