Does Nobody Read Anymore?

Let's face it. Everyone has pet peeves; those things that really irritate you.  Some people hate the sound of fingernails scratching a hard surface, or people who don't make eye contact, or elbows on the table, or people reading over their shoulder. Personally I think it's gross to leave the toilet seat up.  Particularly when both seats are up. Who wants to look at that anyways?

Today I want to discuss how irritating it is that nobody reads anymore.  This leads to more work for everyone.  Remember those people you hate working with because they always did a slop-job the first time they did anything so you or someone else had to redo it later? I've met some people like that lately simply because they don't read.  For example:

The other day I saw an ad my friend had posted on a Facebook group that is used as an online "garage sale."  It had a picture of a leather jacket with a caption that went something like, "large authentic leather jacket, $40."  The first comment on the photo read, "Size? price?" followed by another one that said, "ditto" to the person above.  Duh people! Did you not read the very clear caption above the picture?!

Just a couple days later I posted  on the school ride board saying that we were driving down to Provo and had one or two extra seats if anyone wanted to join.  They would just have to pay $20 in gas each way and we were leaving Friday after my husband got off of work.   The first response back to the post was a text with the questions, "is it $20 round trip?" and "Are you leaving Thursday evening?"  I wanted to respond to the person, "Dear human, You do have eyes right?  You must since you read my phone number off the ride board. So use them to read the ENTIRE THING!"

It's a waste of time for everyone when you have to repeat every piece of information just because people don't want to read your entire ad.  I really hope our generation has not really become that lazy or confused.  I hope that both of those people were up all  night studying or taking care of a baby and their vision has blurred from exhaustion and their brain is mixing up everything they see.  Otherwise they really just were too lazy to read one or two sentences of simple English, and that terrifies me for the sake of our country.