Quick! It’s an emergency! You just got an urgent call about a family emergency and had to rush to the airport with barely time to grab your wallet and your passport. But now, you’re stuck at the airport with nothing to read. What do you do??
And, no, you did NOT have time to grab your bookbag, or the book next to your bed. You were . . . grocery shopping when you got the call and have nothing with you but your wallet and your passport (which you fortuitously brought with you in case they asked for ID in the ethnic food aisle). This is hypothetical, remember….
While I don’t own cats, I have enough friends who do to know that being alone without a book is somewhat akin to feline friends being locked in a house without a scratching post or cat tree…not a pleasant situation.
Since I have my wallet, I’d probably hit the airport bookstore and see what was on the best-seller list, or indulge in a few girly magazines of the sort I generally only read at the salon, because it makes them special, and they seem to GO with the salon.
Failing that, I’d look around for a stray newspaper or cast-off book – airports are popular drop points for Book Crossing, after all.
(And yes, I know, yet again, I’m participating on Sunday. Guess I’m not much of a joiner these days, is all.)
I have over 140 books stored on my phone, and it’s surprisingly easy to read them for long spans of time without eyestrain and the like.
Well…I always have either a book or a magazine in my car because when traffic slows down or I’m in a drivethrough I need something to entertain myself. BUT if for some crazy reason I didn’t have one of those I would go to the newstand or bookstore at the airport and probably buy several magazines and a book or two…you never know when you’ll be at a bookstore again after all and I wouldn’t want to run out while I was away :)
Reading the right books on different subjects can broaden our mind. Your mind is exposed to different cultures, traditions around the world. Through reading, you get an opportunity to closely understand the cultures, traditions and practices exist in different countries.