It’s my custom to read in the school pickup line. It’s a long line and in order to get a good spot, you have to get to the school at least 15-20 minutes before the bell rings. Reading is the best thing to do while sitting there, engine off, windows down, music at a responsible volume, small children snoozing in back seats.
Yesterday, I took along the May issue of Real Simple, my favorite magazine. I grabbed it from a messy pile on the way out the door, my eyes focusing on the month and the pretty apple green cover. As I read, I kept getting the vague feeling the entire thing was an urban legend. I’d heard it before, down to the amusing story of an egg-based hair conditioner gone wrong and an essay thanking the author’s mom for teaching her table manners.
The sense of deja vu was overwhelming. I swore I’d made a pasta salad just like the recipe on page 46. Still, I turned the pages until the cars ahead of me began starting and pulling forward. I tossed it onto the console next to me and there my eyes brushed this:
May. 2008.
Oh.
I love it!
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I do that occasionally too. The funny thing is that I turn red even if no one else is watching. Sad, isn’t it, that some articles are so unmemorable?
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I could so do that.
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I just ordered that as a subscription finally. Love that magazine- especially the recipes. Your car pick up line sounds wonderful. Those moments in the car I love.
I have totally done that with Real Simple before also! I love that magazine and should just break down and get a subscription. But I wonder how much I’m getting out of it if I can read the same magazine twice. I guess I’m getting twice the bang for the buck!
I was with a friend last night who just got a Kindle 2 for her birthday a few weeks ago. She swears it is the best thing for reading on the go, like in school pick up lines.
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You are such a good mom! Instead of going early to get a good spot, I go late and get that very same good spot!
And yes, it was deja lu all over again
(Deja lu is, of course, French for already read)
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Sitting in a car for 15-20 minutes reading by myself sounds like HEAVEN regardless of how old my magazine is.
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Oh my gosh – I did the SAME THING yesterday!! Except it was at the doctor’s office – it was a Good Housekeeping from June of 2008. I was reading the advice column, thinking, this seems SO familiar! Then I realized I had read it before, IN MY DOCTOR’S OFFICE. How often do they change out the magazines? And what disease did I just catch from thumbing through it?
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