BfEs? Nice to have had someone attach some terminology to it, thanks! The same concept applies to what I’ll call BfBs, wherein if the book’s too engrossing I’ll take it out the bathroom and finish it elsewhere. It’s rather challenging getting through something just one or two pages at a time, because something not quite interesting enough to drag out of the bathroom is likely not interesting enough to warrant frequent bookmarking and the slight backtracking that needs to take place when I start reading again each time to establish what happened right before I left off. I have a whole stack of Scientific American magazines in my car’s back-seat pocket, the rationale being that if someone makes me wait in or near the car at least I’ll read something somewhat informative and balance out the time-wastage being inflicted upon me with so-called productivity.

I have a bunch of friends who think nothing of showing up hours late to things and I have to get it through my head finally after repeated incidents that arriving fifteen minutes later than the called-for time for anything we’ve planned generally means I’ll be the first one there. And to think I hurried… Never again! And I’ll be carrying a BfE in my bfecase.