I was a voracious reader from the time I was old enough to hold a book in my hand. So it's no surprise that I was reading well above my grade in elementary school. I could easily pick up a book that was 300 to 400 pages and finish it in a day or a week. But this next story I'm about to tell you is not just above my grade, it was well above my age and would have turned plenty of heads. Of course, now I look back on it and laugh. It gives me a funny story to tell.
When I was 14, I was asked to babysit for a 12-year-old boy for one of our neighbors on a Saturday afternoon while his mom worked. Of course, being 12, he really didn't need babysitting. He just needed an adult in the house in case anything should happen. So he played by himself and I needed something to occupy my time. I found a paperback novel on the mom's bedside nightstand and I picked it up and started reading it. It was The Happy Hooker, and it was 900 pages.
Well, I read that book for eight hours and I only had about 90 pages left when the mom came home. I asked her if I could take it home and finish it and, of course, she said no.
Four decades later, I can't even remember what the book said, except for one scene where she had sex with a horse. She got underneath the horse and got on all fours. Literally that's the only thing I remember.
But what sticks with me like it was yesterday is that now I find my request to the mom embarassing. Back then, I just wanted to finish the dang book. I had gotten so far and didn't want to leave the book unfinished.
One of life's little funny stories!
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