This!! During school, I'll be reading, and someone will just start talking to me. I try to respond with a nod or "yeah" and go back to reading. What gets me is when they keep continuing to talk, even when I start reading again. Let me read in peace.Zepher07 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2013, 17:20 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?
Also, when people tell me I read too much and try to take my book away?? They don't like it when I tell them they're on their phone too much and try to take it away.
It definitely would be helpful, otherwise I always muck up the pages. It's ridiculous, I can eat civilized until there is a book in my lap.
(When I allow myself to put it into perspective after some time, I finally realize I was being such a worrywart!) I can't focus esp. on fiction. Can't afford to sympathize with all those imaginary people struggling. It just feels far, far away. I find myself caught up in my own small world. Luckily, I haven't had this problem for months in a row. But when it happens, it's a real downer 
