So I'm riding on the subway and you know how people will be reading a newspaper and leave it on the seat, then people sit on the seat without bothering to remove the newspaper, because who wants to spend his whole life cleaning up other people's messes, right? So I'm riding the subway and I happen to be sitting on a seat that has a newspaper. This guy walks up to me and says, "Excuse me, are you reading that?" He apparently wanted to read the paper. What could I say, "I'm nearsighted"? I just stood up and handed him the paper.
Next time it happened, a week and a half later, I was ready. I was sitting on a subway seat, on a newspaper, and somebody came up to me and said, "Excuse me sir, are you reading that?" I said "yes," stood up, turned the page and sat back down.