“Oh look at this guy reading a BOOK at the cafe, he must think he’s sooooo cool! I get he thinks a woman will sleep with him cuz he’s so smart and cultured.”
Or maybe my roommate is having their partner over and they kicked me out and I’d rather do this than just be on my fucking phone for two hours?
I once took Octavia Butler’s Dawn with me to jury duty and sat shoulder to shoulder (so they could easily see the words on the page) and uhh the book gets to the part where they start talking about breeding program and im like 😩 i swear I didn’t know this would happen