I can't help it. I'm one of those people who'll read the cereal box on the table if there's nothing else at hand. A headline catches my eye and before I know it, I'm caught up in the article. I want to put a hand out to stop someone if they turn the page before I'm done. People have varying degrees of reaction to this.
Some people are completely oblivious.
On the other hand, some folks will glare over their shoulders and bend themselves into extremely funny, ergonomically-incorrect positions to make sure that I can't see their paper. They paid 25 cents for the thing, after all. Over time, though, I've gotten oddly fond of him and wife Terri, who hangs around beaming like a loon as her husband and the father of her child gets bitten by snakes, crocodiles, wombats, kangaroos, and lizards. He can still get on my nerves, but there's no denying that the guy really cares about animals and that his heart's in the right place. Bill and I have been amused by the various commercials for a new action figure on the scene.