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[oyceter]

When I sit down to eat lunch and you ask me if you can sit at the same table, it does not mean I instantly want to engage in conversation. This is taken to the nth degree when the first thing I do is not look at you or say hi, but instead pick up a book and read it.

Furthermore, when I am answering in single syllables to avoid talking to you, it means I do not want to talk to you! Go away! Smoke your cigar elsewhere!

I hate people who do that, as this person did today at lunch. I ate my sandwich as fast as humanely possible to get out of the situation. Didn't know this guy at all, and I freak out very easily when people who look twice my age attempt to sit down when I am by myself and make conversation.

And I particularly hate people who say stupid things (while I read). Look, I don't want to tell you why I like this book. I do not want to discuss my reading habits. I do not want to tell you my name or anything.

I hate people who do this on the airplane too. You would think that me having my nose deep in a book would signal that I am quite occupied and DO NOT WANT TO TALK. But nooooo.

Plus, it really creeps me out.

Comments

[tonapah.livejournal.com]

The airplane thing is the most annoying thing to me. I find it incredibly presumptuous of someone to think that their conversation is so interesting that I'm going to put down my book just to listen to their blather. These people are also the most oblivious people in the world. No matter how many one-syllable responses I give or how long it takes me to get around to answering, they just. keep. talking. And of course I can't just get up and leave, because I'm stuck there for the duration of the flight. Bah!

This post of yours rang very true for me.

[oyceter]

Exactly! My first reaction in general is "Shut up. I'm reading." except I never say it. Maybe I should start.

I feel like I should have some sort of light up buttom. Green means you are ok to go. Red means stop talking right now or I will shove this book in places where it was not meant to be.