I have a bad habit: I pick up stray reading material as if the reading material were a stray dog or cat.
The free weeklies of the type one is liable to find in a large urban area. Reading material left behind on an el car. A magazine in a waiting room that has interesting material that I want to read further in depth (winter time is the best time for those heists here in Chicago!).
I mean...I have a tiny living space. Truth is, I don’t have the space for all this reading material. I know that but as soon as I see something that I want to read and it’s free...I forget all about that tiny living space.
So...on my job they have a lounge area mostly for the members here where they have lots to read.
So...fast forward to: I’m in the house and I am a little frantic to find a topic for Top Comments tonight and I ran across a copy of Lapham’s Quarterly: the Winter 2016 issue specifically. Something that I probably picked up in my lounge area at work (which is near a Big Ten university)
I flip through LQ and a) I’ve to the basic conclusion that spying is probably the world’s third oldest profession and b) spying is probably the world’s third oldest profession because of the world’s two oldest professions.
I become fixated on this Miscellany item.
About 40 percent of employers peer at the social-media profiles of prospective candidates, and 40 percent of party guests admit to snooping through a host’s medicine cabinet or drawers. The percent of women who admit to having looked through a partner’s phone without permission is 34 percent; of men, 62.
Employers peering at social-media profiles...ho-hum, that’s life in the new millennium: I hate it but...same goes for the partner going through the other partner’s phone without permission...that gender ratio is interesting, though.
Party people going into the medicine cabinet or drawers of the party host?...I have something to say about that...after I tell you who we are and what we do here at Top Comments.
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The first I’d ever heard of people snooping into medicine cabinets was when Tonight Show host Johnny Carson admitted to the practice on a show back in the early 1980’s.
I’m as nosy as they come, really.
And I won’t deny that I will...linger a bit sometimes on the occasion of a host saying to look into the medicine cabinet for something.
But on the whole, I just find the practice of looking uninvited into someone’s medicine cabinet just a bit...obtrusive even for my nosy self.
I just don’t want to know all that about someone.
I will cop to this: when I go to a house that I’ve never been before, I do check out their bookshelves and coffee table books.
As a rule, I don’t really look at or judge all the different genres of various books, magazines, and other literature that’s there. I do look to see if the books are being used or read or whether the books are being used as interior design more than anything else.
That I do judge.
Even though as I look around my house now, I would estimate that I’ve read roughly 40-45% of the varied books, magazines, and...hell, plain scraps of paper, even.
Which, I think, is still a lot of reading though I wish that I read more of the reading material in my house.
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