Pet Peeve

March 20, 2010

Pet Peeve

At Denver I bought April Vogue and Dwell to read on the flight. After we board, I'm reading Dwell, and I put my pristine new Vogue in the seatback pocket in front of me.

A woman two seats down from me shouts over, "Hey, can I read your magazine?"

Me: What, the Vogue?

Her: Yes!

Me: Um, I just bought it.

Her: Can I read it?

So obv, there's no way for me to say no without looking like a total jerk. Even though I think it's super impolite that someone wants to read/use something I just bought that I haven't even looked at.

Anyway, I don't really have to make a decision, because she just reaches over and takes it out of the seatback pocket.

Me: Um, okay.

She opens the magazine and proceeds to lick her fingers every time she turns a page.

Ewwwwwwww.
I ended up tossing the Vogue because I couldn't bring myself to read something that had her spit on every page. Gross.

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I'm an editorial director and digital media strategist based in between New York and Oxford. Most recently I was the Chief Content Officer at Tatler Asia, where I oversaw eight editions of the print and digital publication in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Prior to living in Hong Kong, I spent a career lifetime in New York where I was the Digital Director at Food & Wine, the Digital Director at WWD, the Editor at Large at Glamour, and the Executive Editor at Epicurious. My first book was published by HarperCollins in 2006. I studied Linguistics as an undergraduate at Dartmouth; completed a Masters in Women's Studies at the University of Oxford; and earned an MA Fashion, with distinction, from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.