I have only stopped reading one book and it’s by Heinlein. I just can’t remember if it was Friday or The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. I’d read tons of Heinlein but this one was just too ridiculous for me. This was back in the 80s.
I put this book on a table in the hall. It stayed there for a long time, maybe a couple years, and I just couldn’t pick it back up. I can still picture it laying there (but I can’t see the title). Then it was lost in a fire.
I haven’t finished The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin, which I started last year, but I do plan to get back to it eventually. It’s pretty rare for me to stop in the middle but it’s not as page-turning as the first two in the trilogy and I got distracted. I do want to see how it ends.
Mine whatever vote was this as well. Some tattoos are lovely. My skin scars far too easily, plus psoriasis and other immunity issues keep me away, but that’s just my choice for me. You all do you.
Re: books, there are a few that I have stopped part-way into and a couple I have simply tossed out because awful or just plain stupid but I usually get through most books easily and some avidly.
The problem with reading e-books is that you can’t throw the book across the room if it’s really bad*
I used to always finish books, even when I hated them. However, since I started reading ebooks, I am much more likely to quit in the middle. I get most of my e-books free via a daily email.
I’m not fond of most piercings, but the only one I really hate is the one on the chin. It never looks like anything but a zit.
Tattoos I generally like, often because the tattoo is cherished by the owner.
Heh, I won’t set it aside because then I really can’t enjoy whatever I read next. I’d rather slog through the book and finish it so I can breathe a sigh of relief.
Well… I have a laundry list of mental health diagnoses on top of ADHD. I do pretty well all things considered, but I didn’t exactly win the neurochemical life lottery.
Mental health problems tend to cluster together, so someone with ADHD is likely to have concurrent diagnoses. OCD for example is very common with both ADHD and ASD. Spouse Weasel specializes in OCD and it’s a regular part of his practice to screen for ADHD when OCD is present.
If I saw a small, easily hidden tattoo like that on a stranger, or even casual friend, I can’t imagine asking them even so much as what it meant. It is obviously personal and they might or might not want to share it. I’ve known a woman for about ten years now with Bunny Suicide tats on her calves – and maybe higher for all I know – but I do not know if she merely thought them funny or if there is a deeper meaning.
That seems a bit extreme. Couldn’t you have – you know – given it away?
Call the store. They’ll let me know how they want me to manage the extra batteries (keep, pay by phone if I want to keep them, return them to the store at my convenience). No reason to drive back there.
If @Cardigan meant the two choices to be exhaustive, the “drive back to the store” option would have to include both those who would make a special trip to return the batteries and those who would return them whenever it was convenient. I might not do the former, but I would at least do the latter.
This is me complaining about the lack of an Other option again. I would just wait until the next time I was in the store doing my regular shopping to bring up the dollars/merchandise.