Has anyone ever approached you while reading in public?
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Has anyone ever approached you while reading in public?
Has anyone ever approached you while reading in public?
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Yeah. They tried to mock it, especially if it was the Bible. A girl had told me she would bring me something better to read and brought me some YA chick lit book.
no way that's real
It is. It was at a restaurant I worked at near my college. I was a host and bartender so I would read while I waited for people to come in.
You really thought people would fall for this larp?
It’s not a a larp
yeah, some old boomer once
Mall security asking why I've been sitting in my car in the parking lot for 2 hours
Why would you sit in a mall parking lot for 2 hour reading, you fricking weirdo freak?
What other parking lot would I use
I suggest some parking lot at night, maybe before a lake or sth and just lock your doors, keep the light low-relaxing as hell
Elementary school
Yep. All the time. Kind of pisses me of since most of the people that approach me are dudes and I'm not a gay.
There is no need to read in public other than in waiting rooms and subways. In these places nobody approaches anybody anyway. If you read in public anywhere else you want the attention.
> see's someone reading in public
> constant white noise of every day life
> fulfilling energy of being around others
> m-mmmuh attention prostitute!!1
>constant NOISE of everyday life
>reading
You do know reading requires attention, right
To do it in public is extra effort
you know the human brain has a tune-out function, right?
Which I don't have to use if I just read in a quiet place.
Why go out of my way to read in public if I can just find somewhere quiet
I don't get you people
Because it impresses women? Don't be silly.
People who aren't autistic often enjoy background noise. I focus better in environments like cafes, hearing people talk or cars go by relaxes me.
Ever heard of headphones?
You've been choosing to listen to that noise this whole time?
For some simply being around others improves your ability to stay focused. I mean, haven't you ever studied at a library? In school I know would always be able to get more done there rather than sitting in my dorm, even if I was there with friends. There are also far more opportunities to be distracted at home.
Also, here's a study showing the right amount of background noise (i.e. what you'd hear at a coffee shop) increases creativity: https://doi.org/10.1086/665048
Go to a place farther from the noise, moron. Do you really think the entire world is 200db noise at all times? Go to a state park lmao go somewhere that isn't the city centre or a highway exit ramp
But you have no problem with being on your phone in public?
This says a lot about society.
>Be anon’s attention prostitute reader
>Go out of my way to buy some classic/philosophical bullshit to appear intellectual, leatherbound and everything
>Finally get to ‘read’(=skim) the book on train
>No one looks my way, everyone’s on the phones
>Don’t understand what Hegel’s saying, proceed to skim whole book
>Depression from lack of attention:(
>Go home, get on IQfy
>See IQfy
>mfw
>be from third world
>buy leatherbound edition of philosophy to appear intellectual
>read in front of university
>girls mirin
>get mugged
>they take my book
What should I do IQfy?
>be from third world
>take father’s leatherbound edition of crime and Punishment (his favorite book) to appear intellectual
>read in school
>girls mirin
>get mugged by a crackhead
>they take the book
Can’t believe my brother managed to lose a book my father had since the eighties and didn’t even apologize.
Plenty reasons to read in public. Nagging family/partner, loud neighbors, too much distracting entertainment devices, want to read in the sun, fresh air, constant reminder of stuff you need to do and the list goes on.
>he doesn't read at the park
Pleb. I read under a 100+ year old, massive tree in front of a 19th century mental asylum
When I was in HS they'd do it sometimes
never outside of it though
I don't read in public. Way too noisy plus it makes me look like pseud
Yep. I used to a pub trivia thing with my friends, and one night I showed up 30 minutes early. Sat there reading, the waitress -- who I flirted with often -- came over and grabbed the book out of my hands, read the cover, said "Neat," then handed it back to me. Lucky for her she was cute, but I'd smack most people for that.
The book, for the curious, was Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
by Armand Marie Leroi.
You wouldn't touch any man who did that you fricking shrimp, you'd sit there passive-aggressively and tersely demand your thing back, at best as I and most other posters would in such an interaction
The last man who grabbed a book out of my hands (it was Stephen King's Tommyknockers, I was in the 8th grade) got stabbed with a pencil. I had to do six months of therapy for anger management. Got assigned a new therapist after three months because I picked up a chair slammed my original therapist with it.
I have issues. Honestly, it's pretty amazing I'm not in jail.
>I have issues. Honestly, it's pretty amazing I'm not in jail.
You sound autistic and probably moronic.
I myself was reading Crime and Punishment in Middle School when someone punched the book and I just punched him in the face. That kid had been bullying me for a week (it was the first week of school) and never approached me ever again. Stabbing someone with a pencil is weak and pathetic.
nah but I'd do it to a girl. white knights deserve death for defending that behavior.
Yeah. I had gotten a really ratty adventure story book from the 1700s and I had it out on the train and this old couple came and started talking to me about it, and how unusual it was that I'd have such an old book. We talked about reading, and hobbies, and they mentioned how I probably didn't have many friends - they were really sweet. Everyone I ever tell the story to always gets very offended on my behalf, because of the comment about my lack of friends, but 1. it was true at the time and 2. it was less a comment on myself as a person, and very much more about how to get to the point in a hobby that you're reading antique books on a public train, that requires a certain investment of time that you just don't really have if you're regularly going out with friends. Anyway, they were great, and it was great to have such a nice conversation with strangers, and I cherish the memory.
I was reading 1984 on the train during my "deep" phase and an art hoe literally ran after me to ask me why I was reading it. We spoke as we walked to campus and she forgot about me as soon as we arrived 🙁
An older lady wondered if my e-reader was a tablet and got curious about it, pretty wholesome
this happened to me with a teacher and some dude at a theater
You were reading at a movie theater?
philharmonic, and it was before the show
I decided to read e-girlta in a cafe near a college campus as a joke. 3-4 girls actually approached me in an hour or two
Boomer came up to when I was reading Herodotus and asked me if it was for a class
Girl who had a crush on me approached me reading LotR outside in Uni. She teased me about it. I had to end things with her because I got a gf. This was after she had dumped me but then suggested we try again. I said we’ll see and got gf during the winter break. She was peeved and even sent snaps from outside my apartment which I ignored. Jokes on me tho, now she won’t give me the time of day now that I’m out of a relationship. I messaged her black out drunk a few years ago. She blocked me on snap when I tried to make conversation. Props to her for having self-respect
If one needs loneliness, read a book. Nobody will approach you. Works for me when i want that sweet solitude and negate society for a short time.
Yeah, a girl came to me and asked what was i reading, at the moment i was on second half of Kant's critique of pure reason, she told me it sounded interesting and told her that i didn't even understood it since i don't like reading and i was just using it as an ice breaker, she laughed and we started talking, i offered her to go to my place and we fricked like rabbits for 3 hours, since that day i haven't read a single book. This method has showed 80% success rate in getting art hoe pussy.
Yeah, a couple times.
yes, a fat asian girl was all over me once because i was reading william carlos williams on public transportation
when i was 18 i was reading "portrait of the artist as a young man" while working movie theater concession
old man asks me what my medium is
tell him i'm not an artist, i just read to pass the time
old man spends $20 on popcorn and candy and watches suicide squad
i clean the popper with chemicals that should not exist
wait do I know you?
idk maybe
Yes
Most recent example is this one
It was 2 or 3 in the morning, I ordered a glass of white wine, and the blonde cutie barwoman said "Ooooh, you're reading? What are you reading? Let me see...a book about women sexuality, theology, art... Do you have books about occult/supernatural? I am a medium, if I touch a person I can connect with that person's dead relatives. It is very tiring, for at least a week I can't sleep well if the soul is still close to this world. Will you bring me some books about this?"
I put all my books in straight black leather jackets when I read them outside so nobody ever has anything to say about my books.
An old man once expressed how happy he was to see someone my age reading a book. A security guard for the park I was reading in stopped by to ask if I was leaving soon.
Nice
A couple weeks ago I got stopped by police
"Empty your pockets"
"Ok. Phone, cigs, wallet, a couple books - "
"WHAT'S THIS STUFF???"
Do Americans seriously just give all their belongings to an officer
That violated the 4th Amendment, but who gives a shit about it when morons honestly believe moronic piggies are permitted to do that to anyone.
I'm not American
I didn't "give" them, I just took them out of my pockets
I’ve personally punched an officer a long time ago and drove off into the sunset-to a forest to be precise, to sustain myself on the wisdom of Kierkegaard. I eat a page once I’ve finished reading it and feel myself making bible-long footnotes in my diary.
Eventually I was done with the book, broke into some cabin and took whatever books they had, currently writing from their laptop before taking off on my spiritual journey again.
Hope you can follow me litbros
I'm a six foot tall, well-dressed dude with extremely long hair and a big, bushy beard. I look perpetually angry. Nobody ever approaches me, no matter what I'm doing — and that's the way I like it.