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Not really - one of my worst nights ever was working an 8 hour stocking gig at Kroger.
Which isn't bad in and of itself, but the radio was broken, so there was nothing to interrupt the silence punctuated by the clink of cans and jars hitting the shelf.
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Point taken, sarcasticmuppet. However, entering into that sort of discussion with a person like that is sort of dumb, in that it's pointless and mildly cruel. Sometimes it's fun to make somebody feel like an idiot, but it's usually not fun to feel like one yourself.
I have enough empathy to suffer from Intellectual Elitist's Remorse.
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even though the thread has strayed from where this post would most make sense:
I've boiled a pair of hot dogs for 3-4 hours because of a good book.. most the water had evaporated or absorbed into the then extremely waterlogged franks.
I know someone who litterally throw books when the book makes her think to hard, or ties in with other things she's read, or just plain frustrates her. She's violent.
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I knew a girl who'd read stupid romance novels and then throw them across the room when they got dumb.
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Christy, I don't usually cry, but I get sort of an...I don't know, an empty feeling when I come to the end of a good, long book. I don't want the story to end.
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Kat, Lately, when I am reading before bed, I have been falling asleep with the book still held up in the air. I think to myself, as I jolt awake from the book falling on me, "I must look pretty darned dumb for a book reader."
PS I have done the conditioner thing too. "Why is my hair not drying?" I ask myself in the bathroom at school. I am sure the children I teach have wondered if I took a bath that week.
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I am also a book thrower, though I usually pick them back up. Not always, but usually.
One of my college roommates decided I was crazy when she heard me laughing at something I was reading. Not because I had laughed at a joke, but because I was laughing at a joke in <I>Shakespeare</I>.
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I fall asleep listening to audiobooks all the time... but that's the idea, they distract me from thinking about my day, and I get to sleep much faster.
Now, if I were to fall asleep while listening to audiobooks while I work, THAT would be a bad thing...
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The hardest I have cried over a book since Old Yeller when I was nine was "Gates of Fire," by Steven Pressfield, about the Battle at Thermopylae. I had to go out in the yard and hide so I could finish it, and I couldn't stop crying. Another book I sobbed over for about three days was "My Sweet-Orange Tree," which is an out-of -print story about a little Brazilian boy.
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Elfquest kept making me cry. It was driving me crazy. Wendy Pini is the best when it comes to expressive character expressions. I couldn't really help it.
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Rivka -- No, not just at the end of books, and often serious bawling pre-empts the book throwing, such as Wizard and Glass and Corelli's Mandolin. Generally, I do keep reading, though, just with a hanky nearby (or Tom *grin*)
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Just for the record, I have TRIED to explain to her the difference between a husband and a hanky, and have repeatedly pointed out that the presence of one does not necessarily preclude the need for another. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Hmm. At least I know where the expression "hanky panky" came from, now. I never realized the connection before.
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I remember being very near the end of A Tale of Two Cities when I was at a friend's house after school. I think my mother was there also, having some sort of meeting with my friend's mother. My friend was doing her homework, and I was reading.
Anyway, I started to get emotional and realized the last 50 pages were just going to have to wait until I was alone.
Nothing like blubbering over a book to ruin any street cred I may have ever had in Christian School.
Actually, I think I probably lost that when the principal took a picture of me reading Ivanhoe at the Fall Festival. But who could blame me? There was this really dumb/high guy trying to come on to me when I went outside, and none of the duck pond prizes could hold a candle to Knights and, you know, Robin Hood.
I should put THAT down so I could drink Orange Drink and make myself ill on cotton candy? Please.
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I don't actually read while driving....exactly. I do read at stoplights, and have occasionally been honked at if I got too distracted.
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