to be offended by the checkout womans comment? (lighthearted)

[forbiddenfruit85]

Saw 'The Hobbit' on sale for £4.00, never read it so thought why not.

Went to pay for it along with the rest of the groceries.

When the checkout woman scans it through say "who's this for?"

I replied it was for me.

She gives me a look and says "It's very difficult to read to know?"

I guess she thinks I must look a little bit dim haha

Maybe she read them years ago when the print was tiny.

She was probably just trying to work out if you could possibly be more clever than her.

Ds1, aged 10 loved it. But it was a bit slow to start with. Ds2, 7, found it difficult to read. Vocabulary, rather than print.

Ooh there's an old chap in our local Sainbury's that always comments on my basket contents.

Too much toilet roll once, apparently. FFS.

I saw somebody buying 2 massive packets of toilet roll, 3 bottles of coke and a family pack of crisps last night in the corner shop.

Looked like a good night in.

I actually avoid certain check out staff at my local Tesco because they are complete loons. I make a mental note of the normal ones and head to their queues even if they're longer!

My kinda party FromEsme

I do that too, LucieMay, perhaps we're not the only ones and that is why the queues are longer at their checkouts?

I found it hard to read. I never finished it and I was a Reader with a capital R.

I suspect my parents gave me Tolkein in desperation to get me outside in the sunlight or do anything other than read all the books in the house. That plan failed, but I never finished a Tolkein.

I'm extremely well-read and found The Hobbit completely unreadable. I don't know anyone who finished the damn thing.

It is annoying having your items commented on, though. The Waitrose staff are dreadful at this. Ooooh that pie looks so nice. That gammon is lovely. Those mince pies really are tasty. SHUT. UP!

My 10 year old finished it.

I am an ardent nosy cow people watcher, and I love seeing people in the queue emptying their trollies in front of me.
I would never comment though, poor cashier, she clearly just didn't get into it when she read it.

He had a dictionary and a thesaurus to hand, and I think it really improved his vocab.

Funny thing is, 'The Hobbit' is not hard to read.

She was probably confusing it with 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.

I finished it as a child - had a lovely edition with loads of pics. Loved it, so bought the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Never have I been more disappointed. HATED it. Huge waste of my Christmas book tokens.

Hard to read? To my mind 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy are something best first read when you're about 12/13 and full of imagination.

Having said that, I tried to read the Silmarillion (finished off and edited by his son I think) and I just couldn't do it.

I read The Hobbit at school when I was 9ish and I loved it, it's still my go to book for long journeys.
Then again, I read Of Mice and Men at the same age in detentions and enjoyed that too. I was often described as an odd child by my grandad

The checkout woman WBU!

I had a battered, worthy looking edition of Foucalt's Pendulum on my desk. My boss's boss saw it and commented on it. I told him that I wasn't reading it, I just it there to appear more intelligent. The fucker believed me.

She was clearly confused -The Hobbit is an easy children's book, much simpler language than LotR.

she probably just meant its hard to read because of its unrelenting pretentious dullness. thought the book.were great when i was younger but going back to the hobbit or lotr now and i cant get through the first chapter! :D

hahha - what an idiot! My son read it when he was 8.

My dd1 read it at 9! She currently halfway though the second LOTR book. She is a little ahead with her reading but she's not G &T

i read it with my high school pupils. they hated it. so did i. we had to do it, we didn't have a choice. 'unrelenting pretentious dullness' just about sums it up.

The hobbit hard to read?

Try reading The Silmarilion, i didnt get past page 4.

My son is a total Tolkien nerd and he really struggled with the Silmarillion as well. I think he did finish it, on principle, but he found it very tough. (he was about 14 or 15 when he read it I think.)

Is she tryin to tell you, you look a bit thick or that it's a bit rubbish?

I bought some grapes in co-op once and the checkout lady said 'are you sure you want these, they're very expensive'. Obviously looking a bit rough and destitute that day.