Be on a packed train

>shakes his head and mutters "fucking Socrates over here"
That's hilarious. Are you so self-absorbed and lacking in confidence that you can't laugh at yourself?

that never happened.

... and at him, for that matter.

Well what the fuck else am I supposed to do? Stare blankly at the other passengers who more often than not are disgusting excuses for human beans (I'm American, in a fat city) until I reach my stop feeling depressed about the absolute state of humanity when I could have escaped it all for that 30 minutes?

Unironically this

>implying someone who knows about Socrates would ever admonish you for reading

Most people don't even know who Plato is these days.

i only read pulp, easy reading trash on public transport. pic related.

I couldn't concentrate on the deep and edgy stuff on a train

Restricting reading to any one circumstance usually also restricts my ability to recall it to that same circumstance. Similar to state dependant memory when drinking.

OP is the insecure one. He had to come vent on here over a non-problem

God damn it your life must suck. You have to realize that out there in the real world no one gives a flying fuck about you and that YOU are the ONLY one thinking that reading in public is pretentious simply because you're insecure and autistic. Grow up.