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Will Write For Chocolate: addicted to reading

March 20th, 2008 · 17 Comments

Click image to see a bigger version. So ‘fess up — how many of you can identify with the cartoon above?

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  • niki // Mar 20, 2008 at 8:21 am

    ooh! i do the same thing. and yes, i agree. cereal boxes make for great reading too. but i also read the back of shampoos when i take a bath, or anything in the bathroom i can read. hahaha! this one sure hits home.

  • Tasha // Mar 20, 2008 at 8:21 am

    I can probably recite the the care tag on my fir tree centerpiece by heart.

  • Technoshaman // Mar 20, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Me! Anything is fair game…

  • Bethanie // Mar 20, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Guilty!

    And I, too, read the backs of shampoo (and conditioner) bottles in the shower — and I have really long hair, so the longer and more overwrought the description of how wonderful the particular product is for my locks, the better!

  • wordvixen // Mar 20, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    *hand raised* Definitely me with the cereal, milk jug, etc. In the shower? Not on purpose. I do become accidentaly distracted by product labels, though.

  • Lauren // Mar 20, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    I do this all the time. I’ll read anything. Honestly, if all I have is a coffee cup, I’ll read “Warning: Hot” again and again. It’s great. Hah.

  • christa // Mar 20, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    Oh, I’m so relieved to know I’m not alone in this fascination with the written word on cereal, shampoo, and canned food labels. Sigh.

  • Mary // Mar 21, 2008 at 5:32 am

    I too am guilty of the shamppo/conditioner bottles in the shower. I must recommend Sunsilk- they write some interestingly racy bottle descriptions.

  • Anna // Mar 21, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Hehe…I had a friend who once said “I’ll read anything that doesn’t move and some things that do.” She was soooo right.

  • Beth // Mar 22, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Oh yes, I identify. I once got so distracted with the back of the muffin mix box that the darn things burned!

  • Tasha // Mar 22, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    Speaking of things that move…has anyone (else) ever gotten upset b/c a vehicle or person moved before you could finish reading what was written on them?

  • Rachel Starr Thomson // Mar 22, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    I thought everyone did that :).

  • Melody Platz // Mar 22, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    I just STARED when I read this comic. I was dumbstruck. I couldn’t believe other people read product labels when they have nothing else to read.

    I read shampoo bottles.

    I don’t feel alone in the world any longer. : )

  • Bethanie // Mar 24, 2008 at 7:26 am

    Tasha: That happened to me this morning! There’s one of those fancy, digital billboards on my drive in and there was an advertisement for a Peking Acrobats show, which flashed off and was replaced by an ad for a gigantic television — before I got close enough to read where and when the acrobat show is going to be!!! Aaaarrrrgh!

  • danielle // Mar 24, 2008 at 9:12 am

    um, guilty as charged. i’m not sure i know *how* to eat without reading, just like i don’t know how to walk without dogs. :-)

  • Leslie Dicken // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:55 am

    ME! ME! ME!

    I must have SOMETHING to read while I’m eating — especially if I’m eating cereal! LOL!!

    Leslie

  • Jordy/Chigaijin // Mar 29, 2008 at 3:27 am

    Definitely. *grin*

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