What one thing disrupting your reading annoys you the most?

meghnaverghese · Post by **meghnaverghese** » 18 Oct 2013, 09:46

mum shouting to do my chores! :O

dea0045 · Post by **dea0045** » 18 Oct 2013, 10:55

Yeah I'm gonna have to go with people trying to talk to me when I'm reading. I can handle chatter if there is a lot of talking and not just one conversation that I zero in on.

lyla_ibrahim · Post by **lyla_ibrahim** » 18 Oct 2013, 11:58

Friends snatching the book I'm reading right out of my hands. While I was reading. Yes people. It happened to me.

newlndnfire · Post by **newlndnfire** » 18 Oct 2013, 13:32

lyla_ibrahim wrote:Friends snatching the book I'm reading right out of my hands. While I was reading. Yes people. It happened to me.

I can't stand that. Makes me want to turn into a murderer!

lyla_ibrahim · Post by **lyla_ibrahim** » 18 Oct 2013, 13:40

newlndnfire wrote:
lyla_ibrahim wrote:Friends snatching the book I'm reading right out of my hands. While I was reading. Yes people. It happened to me.
I can't stand that. Makes me want to turn into a murderer!

I know! They just don't understand....

MarisaJ1983 · Post by **MarisaJ1983** » 18 Oct 2013, 17:21

They don't annoy me, and I LOVE THEM...but my kids disrupt my reading most.

RainbowSix · Post by **RainbowSix** » 18 Oct 2013, 21:11

At the local library there's a corral of seats reserved for the old farts. When a tot from the children's side pipes up we all do a collective groan, except for that I pretty much tune everything out with a good book.

Megha Nayar · Post by **Megha Nayar** » 18 Oct 2013, 23:42

I agree with all the folks who mentioned chatter. People speak to you in blatant disregard of the book in your hand. I think I am just going to start pointing it out to them. "I'm reading, don't disturb."

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 19 Oct 2013, 05:43

This topic made me think how difficult it is to find a quite place in our noisy world - libraries used to have a total silence rule, now with childrens areas there is overflow of giggling and worse into the adult areas and of course there is the occasional rogue mobile phone or the laptop tapping from the student study area. Coffee shops, bars and restaurants all have continuous background music varying in volume and a constant cacophony of ring tones etc. A few days ago I discovered even churches now have background music playing on a loop. Why is it that we think we need to have some kind of background noise everywhere all the time? I must be getting old and cranky!

lyla_ibrahim · Post by **lyla_ibrahim** » 19 Oct 2013, 06:42

Fran wrote:This topic made me think how difficult it is to find a quite place in our noisy world - libraries used to have a total silence rule, now with childrens areas there is overflow of giggling and worse into the adult areas and of course there is the occasional rogue mobile phone or the laptop tapping from the student study area. Coffee shops, bars and restaurants all have continuous background music varying in volume and a constant cacophony of ring tones etc. A few days ago I discovered even churches now have background music playing on a loop. Why is it that we think we need to have some kind of background noise everywhere all the time? I must be getting old and cranky!

There's one place, though. Our own bedroom. For my case at least.

coheller · Post by **coheller** » 19 Oct 2013, 12:03

Falling asleep. I write books in the daytime and read books at night in bed.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 19 Oct 2013, 12:42

Zepher07 wrote:People who can clearly see that you are reading, but insist on having a full-blown conversation with you anyway. These people do not even ask if you want to converse with them. This happens to me all the time when I try to read when I'm on my break at work. I just want to relax with a good book. Is that too much to ask?

Ah, just the thing to get on my nerves! You'r'e right, it's like you have a big red flag waving above your head, or a neon sign saying "Attention, reading in session. Approach and chat away to your heart's content". It's even worse when they demand your focus or replies. I've had people come up to me in a coffee shop, at the beach - heck, even my own room! - and grab the book from my hands to get me to pay attention to them!

They just can't get that reading is NOT an errand or what a desperate and lonely person would do, it's something we actually enjoy and need...

al islost · Post by **al islost** » 19 Oct 2013, 14:58

Fran wrote:This topic made me think how difficult it is to find a quite place in our noisy world - libraries used to have a total silence rule, now with childrens areas there is overflow of giggling and worse into the adult areas and of course there is the occasional rogue mobile phone or the laptop tapping from the student study area. Coffee shops, bars and restaurants all have continuous background music varying in volume and a constant cacophony of ring tones etc. A few days ago I discovered even churches now have background music playing on a loop. Why is it that we think we need to have some kind of background noise everywhere all the time? I must be getting old and cranky!

Cacophony? I couldn't agree more. I've started wearing anti-noise buttons on my lapels to protest this massive affront
to my senses. Some of my gems: "Din's a Sin: Repent" "Noise is for Boys: Be A Man", "Bark Belongs On Trees, Not In
The Library," "Even Though You're Old and Cranky, I'd Still Like to Hanky with Your Panky" Guess who still loves you.

-- 19 Oct 2013, 15:58 --

Fran wrote:This topic made me think how difficult it is to find a quite place in our noisy world - libraries used to have a total silence rule, now with childrens areas there is overflow of giggling and worse into the adult areas and of course there is the occasional rogue mobile phone or the laptop tapping from the student study area. Coffee shops, bars and restaurants all have continuous background music varying in volume and a constant cacophony of ring tones etc. A few days ago I discovered even churches now have background music playing on a loop. Why is it that we think we need to have some kind of background noise everywhere all the time? I must be getting old and cranky!

Cacophony? I couldn't agree more. I've started wearing anti-noise buttons on my lapels to protest this massive affront
to my senses. Some of my gems: "Din's a Sin: Repent" "Noise is for Boys: Be A Man", "Bark Belongs On Trees, Not In
The Library," "Even Though You're Old and Cranky, I'd Still Like to Hanky with Your Panky" Guess who still loves you.

Tegon Maus · Post by **Tegon Maus** » 19 Oct 2013, 15:02

[quote="Lydia"][quote="Zepher07"]People who can clearly see that you are reading, but insist on having a full-blown conversation with you anyway. Very funny ! They think you're reading because you have nothing else to do. They think they are saving you from boredom.... why else would you be reading a book ??? My wife complains of this every day with her work. You put it exactly in her words.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 19 Oct 2013, 15:10

Tegon Maus wrote:
Lydia wrote:
Zepher07 wrote:People who can clearly see that you are reading, but insist on having a full-blown conversation with you anyway. Very funny ! They think you're reading because you have nothing else to do. They think they are saving you from boredom.... why else would you be reading a book ??? My wife complains of this every day with her work. You put it exactly in her words.

Oh, dear... Never thought of that. Nothing worse than someone trying to "save" me from fictional characters

You know, you actually gave me an idea! Next time someone tries to interrupt my reading, I'll look at them with starstruck eyes and claim dramatically "My hero! I so needed your gallant rescue from this evil thing with pages and the hot piece of a guy in them!" . You think I should bat my eyelashes to add some more special effects?