to have guffawed internally at this???

[LaDietrich]

was on the bus this morning on my way into work...feeling really tired and a bit out of it...not in mood to read my book...man in suit gets on and sits next to me...gets out his blackberry and starts punching in things very officiously...I am tired and close my eyes for a bit...then open them and my eyes rest on his blackberry...I end up glancing at his mails and messages as he goes through them...not really intentionally but tired and nothing else to do...once or twice he puts it back in his pocket and then yanks it out again and keeps going...I'm alternating between eyes closed, looking out window and sometimes glancing at his thingy when I realise he is typing "are you enjoying reading my mails and messages?" in his little window thingy... I have to say it was a miracle I didn't laugh outloud...I was so tempted to say "no not really they aren't very interesting" (was all very boring "can you do a meeting ? blah blah blah" stuff...

I KNOW it's rude to read over people's shoulders etc (though I must admit am guilty of that too when I am bored) but really, surely if it bothers him that mch he shouldn't go through all his emails etc on a packed bus?

Anyway, am sure some of you will be appalled but I thought it was really funny...

yes the joke was somewhat on me...but I think also on him

he was in a public space, there are no laws saying you mustn't read boring messages on other people's mobile devices (are there???) - if it bothered him that much there were things he could have done...indeed I'd go so far as to suggest that it's hard not to read, unless you are focussed on your own book, or handheld device...there is something about the movement that attracts the eye, especially when a bit flaked out as I was today...(but maybe that's just a big fat excuse for my terrible behaviour )

Although I also read books/newspapers of people sitting next to me sometimes, and indeed if i find someone doing similar to me I generally try to position whatever it is I'm reading to better facilitate them without making it too obvious...I really have NO problem with it

If I were reading private messages and I noticed someone were reading over my shoulder and I didn't want them to I'd put the thing away

anyway, I just thought the whole things was quite hilarious...and sort of petty for a big business man type...

So it's ok to read people's silently sent messages becuase there are no laws against it?

What if he had been reading a personal letter? No law against reading that either is there, but you just wouldn't do it.

I would have laughed out loud. And then apologised. I think what he did was quite funny -. And not twattish. Surely he was making a joke of it?