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?
This is a no-brainer. If I had to sell my plasma to do it, I would buy books. If I had to sell my passport, I would buy books. There is no way in all the universe that I would get on a plane with nothing to read but Skymall.
I would pick up a new hardcover that I’ve been wanting to read, a Stephen King or Ann Rule paperback I’ve read before, and probably a trade paperback I have not read. Plus a Vanity Fair and some trashy women’s magazine. That should get me through a six hour flight–not that I will read all of that, but I won’t be anxious about running out of things to read.
As Amazon is my witness, I’ll never go bookless again.
With nothing to read, I would be writing poetry!
Here is my BTT post!
lol-I love the way you ended that!
thanks
Ha! Great answer.
Whoops, missed ANOTHER btt. Sigh. But yeah, this one is easy. There are always some cheap thriller novels in the airport, and those are the perfect thing when you need a distraction/to keep your mind busy!
it’s not even a question!
I’m always afraid I won’t be in the mood for what I brought, so even when I take books with me to the airport, I end up buying books and magazines, so this is a no-brainer for me too. I’d buy a hardback, a paperback and some magazines.
Mood has so much to do with it! I often end up buying books, too–