To think nobody ‘pads’ in real life, is this just a book thing? Stuff you only read in books…

[Hottubby]

‘She slipped on his shirt and padded across the room ‘
Does anyone ‘pad’ in real life? I have read it 4 times this week (I’m on holiday and reading a lot of chic lit!). Why is it only used in books?

In a what and ad a what , good god why do they have be odd , nobody uses words like that normally

Slightly different but I was listening to a book a few weeks ago and the narrated kept saying he said she said

Shall we go by car he said
Yes she said
Ok he said we will go down Burton St
She said no let's go down stock St
and on and on like that
ARRRG !

This!

”What do you think?” she laughed.

Don't know if Danielle Steel qualifies as chick lit? She loves the word important. Virtually everyone in her books has a very important job, important clients or father or husband with a very important job. Important works of art round the place, producing important films. Some characters descriptions are verging on sainthood. Heroine is nearly always wealthy, immaculate, beautiful, designer wearing, sometimes has a very stressful important job for an important firm but still manages somehow to maintain a wardrobe of designer gear, flawless skin routine, diet etc etc. Her books are pretty much the same.

Also in films, they abruptly finished a phone call by hanging up. No “bye, then”, “bye”.

Do you yawn sleepily or blush charmingly too?

Shyly looking up at someone THROUGH your eyelashes… how though?! It’s not possible, seriously I’ve tried it in the mirror

When you’ve unexpectedly had sex with somebody, you will wake up to the delicious smell of bacon cooking and fresh coffee brewing the next morning. You will throw on a discarded mens shirt, and follow your nose downstairs. There you will find the back of a tanned, topless hunk, with a tea towel thrown over his shoulder, cooking up a storm at the stove.

For me it's 'murmured'.
"Of course" she murmured and the like. No one fucking murmurs! They mumble maybe or mutter but murmuring? Just NO!

Well it creates an atmosphere. You get what they are trying to convey. Stride/skip/pound/glide/pads all suggest different moods and tone.

I’ve been reading a fantastically trash fantasy series this year, and they are absolutely chock-full of ‘barely perceptible nods’. I mean really - I don’t think any of the characters actually made a facial expression visible to the common naked eye for the entire 9 book series! (But I won’t have a bad word said about them as they got me through some shit times).

I pad. I cross the room quietly so as not to wake up DH when I wake in the night.

Jane padded sensuously across the room and climbed onto the heavily draped bed, she often thought the bed curtains must be something of a fire hazard but pushed this thought from her mind as she reached slowly for the man already lying there. Sighing she pressed her lips firmly to his massive brow and kissed him "Rochester" she murmured, "take me". His grim mouth responded to hers and as their passion grew he growled "come for me Jane"...

Fanny gallops😂. Thank you, I needed a laugh today.

If you ever spot your love interest from afar with his arm round a gorgeous woman, kissing her on the cheek or playing with her and her kids, don’t worry, she will later be introduced to you as his sister or cousin and she will become one of your closest allies.

Yup, that's what I meant.
Sensuous padded, that's me.

Rookie mistake to fry bacon topless.

PadDER FGS autocorrect.
Although, come to think of it…

The other one I really don't like is when the heroine, and also all her best friends, 'giggle'.

"That was a great evening" she giggled.

No.

Children giggle. Grown adults do not, and certainly can't get their words out if they are!

Chefs kiss 🤌

I think the ‘shyly through the eyelashes’ thing is meant to convey the famous “Princess Di coy” look.

I bloody wish DH padded! He is the heaviest walker for someone who is only 12 stone! Sadly the DC have inherited his heavyfootedness and I'm surrounded by T-Rexes!!

So no. In my life no one pads 😭

That word has been overused. I stopped reading one book where the author kept using that word for anyone walking indoors and also wrote, far too often - "and then they chatted for awhile".

I'm not tanned 😞

Surely the modern blurb for Jane Eyre?

I remember reading one of these threads ages ago and heavily editing the story I wrote! 😁 (Still need to finish typing it up though.)

I remember Harry Potter 'padding' in one of the HP books. Can't remember which one, might have been Goblet of Fire.

That sounds a bit cruel, to do that to your parrots, could you slacken the string off a bit?