My stepdad likes to tell the story of how we (Mom, Stepdad, sisters, and I) were at a bookstore, and some lady came up to him and asked "Your kids are reading! That's so wonderful! How do you get them to do that?"
My stepdad looked around and saw us all ensconced in chairs at the bookstore, reading books that didn't belong to us. He turned back to the lady, rolled his eyes and said "Get'em to read? Lady, how do I get'em to stop?"
I was definitely constantly getting in trouble for reading during class. All the damn time. Which is funny, because as often as that happened, never once did my mother ban me from books. Which I'm okay with. But, seriously. It got to the point where my teachers wouldn't even argue about it. That might've had something to do with the fact that when they called me about it, and forced me to stop I was obnoxious as hell until they finally let me go back to reading.
I always found that if you raised your hand for every single question that the teacher asked, the teacher would eventually get annoyed and say something to the effect of "Anyone besides Alex, please?" That was usually the point where I would pull the book back out.
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Date: 2008-01-30 12:51 am (UTC)My stepdad looked around and saw us all ensconced in chairs at the bookstore, reading books that didn't belong to us. He turned back to the lady, rolled his eyes and said "Get'em to read? Lady, how do I get'em to stop?"
I was definitely constantly getting in trouble for reading during class. All the damn time. Which is funny, because as often as that happened, never once did my mother ban me from books. Which I'm okay with. But, seriously. It got to the point where my teachers wouldn't even argue about it. That might've had something to do with the fact that when they called me about it, and forced me to stop I was obnoxious as hell until they finally let me go back to reading.
I always found that if you raised your hand for every single question that the teacher asked, the teacher would eventually get annoyed and say something to the effect of "Anyone besides Alex, please?" That was usually the point where I would pull the book back out.