London Evening Papers

I read an article the other week about the etiquette of flying. Was it rude to read the person to whom you have sat next to's paper, book, hand-held console, laptop or video ipod? Being one lacking in etiquette I thought, surely this is ok? i mean as long as you are able to do it in the most clandestine of ways, with shifty eye movements to capture snippets of what they are looking at then well why not?

Well last night whilst travelling home I was reading one of the many evening free papers that seem to be popping up in London. the girl sitting next to me became what i can only describe as engrossed in the pages that I was reading, she even developed a slight lean toward me in an effort so as not to strain her neck.

I started to become rather annoyed, I could feel it welling up in the pit of my stomach - the insolence! i tried to counter this in my head with the reasoning that I too had done much the same thing whilst at the Old Vic last Saturday, reading the paper over the shoulder of the person in front who was reading a review of some musical one of the contestants of "there's something about maria" had bagged (not Connie, the tomboyish one.)

So this must have been a lesson for me and I have to say I agree with the author of the inflight article, just don't do it, regardless of how innate you feel your ability to pry is.