People whine about smart phones

and magazines

and books

"One would like to speak to the proprietor!"

and books

Unless you were the under-house parlour maid, of course.

[quote]"One would like to speak to the proprietor!"—The Lady Karen

One will have to wait, I'm afraid, madam...I mean, my lady.

Look at how tiny their waists were.

There used to be a woman who walked in my neighborhood who would walk, read a book, and smoke furiously all at the same time. Quite the multitasker.

How do we explain this, DL?

[quote]Look at how tiny their waists were.

You think the food is bad in England now? Imagine what it was like then.

My mother used to bitch that I always had my nose in a book and it used to take me forever to get dressed because I didn’t want to stop reading to put my head through a neck hole.

More recently she complained I always looked at my phone.

Hmmph.

This is how people get hit crossing the street.

Now they're just reading text messages and Instagram. Big diff.

But you would never see a person reading a book while driving though. Yet some fucking obnoxious idiots would watch TV on their mobiles while steering cars with children. Big diff.