by Est83 » Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:57 am
My girlfriend was reading this on holiday last year. We met another couple around the pool (the lady was also reading it) and we were having a drink with them later that evening when someone mentioned the book. The girls started nattering away about it whilst me and other bloke are looking at each other feeling sorry for ourselves. The lady noticed and commented "not really your thing I suppose?" The man sympathised and said something like "I don't blame you mate, I can't be bothered with anything that hasn't got pictures in it."
Now, what he meant was that he wasn't much of a reader, and preferred picture books. I completely misinterpreted what he was saying however, and replied with some along the lines of "Tell me about it! I mean why don't they just go online right? Riiiight, am I right? [Haha, lol, hahaha, lol, chuckle chuckle chuckle]"
So anyway, turns out you can't make jokes about prom to people you've just met... who knew?