Reading on the tube/train/bus: c/d?

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came up on the commuting thread.

brilliant most of the time (especially on the tube) but dud if ppl talk too loud on their mobiles phones (this is the key adv the tube has over trains) (or have fights on the carriage you are in, which happened yesterday).

but c overall.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

it's something to do if nobody is fighting, i guess.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. Unfortunately, my train journey to work is only a few minutes, so I just get nicely absorbed in the book and it's time to get off.

Going up to London tonight, though. This gives me a nice hour and a half. Mmmmm.

― robster (robster), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Reading while walking into work: also classic

Reading under whatever circumstances life permits, basically.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

''Reading while walking into work: also classic''

yeah but not if its raining, then it's a dud.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Makes long train journeys fantastic, unless someone attempts to start a conversation based on what you're reading at the time.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"fight club? come on, you fucker!"

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm reading other people's mind on the tube.

― Erik, Friday, 4 April 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

collective hive-mind?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

always read on the bus, occasionally on the train. At the moment I am reading a v. strange book called "Oxford Now and Then" which compares Oxford through the ages with when it was written (ie 1970) and the cover features a couple of hippies walking past the Radcliffe Camera whilst gown-clad acko toffs (one with a monocle) scowl at them in the background. Very 1970!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

''i'm reading other people's mind on the tube.''

bah! not interested but if you know anything abt mind control...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday I was reading "Mansfield Park" on the train, and next to me was a bloke who kept muttering and twitching reading "Bronson", the biography of Britain's most violent prisoner. It was quite the tableau!

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't read on buses, or indeed do anything but hold on to the seat, and hopefully the contents of my stomach, until I get off.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who reads while walking. I always wonder if it doesn't make me look a bit, well, ECCENTRIC. I do look when I cross roads though, honest.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

have you ever walked into anything? (be honest).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hell yeah.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend came up with the idea of "Reading trains", which is a bunch of people with going from and to similar areas, where each person keeps the person in front's heels in view above the top of their book. We couldn't decide whether everyone joining the train should pay the person at the front (who obv. can't be reading) a nominal fee, or whether every few minutes the person in front gets to go to the back.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

dud: i get nauseus when i read on plains/trains/automobiles.

[is that how you spell nauseus?] n

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 April 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Astounding hyperclassic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic on long plane rides. Dud on short commutes; by the time I've gotten into "reading" mode I've reached my stop.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Reading on the metro/bus in Montreal: classic.

Reading on the bus in Kingston: not dud, just completely and totally impossible for so many reasons.

My favourite, however, is doing the crossword--best is the NYT crossword Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Oh how I miss that crossword.

― cybele (cybele), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

If I try to read on buses, I throw up.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I get nauseous reading on the bus. I'm not sure why.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 4 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Never read on bus. Can read on the train if it's fairly empty, but not a real crowded one, because everyone (inc. probably me) tends to be acting shifty and furtive, which is way too distracting...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I always carry a book just for this delicious purpose. However, trying to read while heading back from a night out involving alcoholic beverages=dud= Reading four or five pages and realising you haven't taken any of it in.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

If I didn't ride the bus for an hour a day, I would probably get no reading done. This morning I read the GQ feature on Bernie Mac. I love that guy.
Headphones are also good, I have big clunky ones that send a definite message to my fellow shame-trainers: do not disturb, you pieces of shit.

A lot of people I know can't do this though. They get motion-sickness.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Reading on the tube is the only thing that makes it bareable (is it bearable?). Reading on the bus, nope, never done that, I like looking out the window, and it's kinda bumpy, and you have to keep your wits about you on the bus.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

mega wicked classic--until you miss your stop and have to turn round

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. The only time I won't have a book (and walkman) on the go on public transport is when I'm towards the end of a bus ride where I don't really know the route and locale, so I have to pay attention.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's another glimpse into my NYC obsession: When I went to college I took the city bus to and from campus, and I would read the NYTimes and pretend I was on the subway. This is before I ever went to NYC.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 4 April 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i do it all the time, on the nyc-philly amtrak commute. get a lot of reading that way, esp. since i started to bring ear plugs (to drown out cell-phone yappers, yapping yentas, yapping yentas on cell-phones, etc.)

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 6 April 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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