Nosy=Rudeness

My biggest pet peeve is people being nosy. Case in point, people reading over my shoulder. Sometimes I take the bus home. Now, the bus is not your average bus. It masquerades as a luxury 'town bus.." Think Greyhound for shorter distances (and no beheading*. What? Too soon?) and certain buses are packed. People are standing in the aisles. For those of you who actually know me, you know that I really really hate the bus (as much as I hate the train. And commuting. UGH). I hate everything about it. I hate the people on it, and I really really really hate how nosy they can be.
Now, here's my point. A couple of weeks ago, I had to take the bus home. In order to save some time, I was working on my advertising work to do list (Ah! there is the point of the blog in there! Bahahaha!) and this woman sits down beside me (nevermind the fact that it was a tiny seat, and she was bigger and she was squishing me.) and starts reading over my shoulder. Yes, she starts reading my sensitive advertising work. Work that if it got out, Advertising would melt into nothingness. Okay, that was a touch dramatic. Back to the story. So I moved my arm and paperwork to cover it up. She then lets out this big sigh like I took away her toys. EXCUSE ME!! Am I rude? No, I don't think so. Anyway, I finished off what I was doing and put it away. And she sighs again because evidently she thought I was going to leave it out for her to read. Nope, sorry, if you want reading material, you can go to Chapters.


Was I rude?


*http://www.thestar.com/Article/470913

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/03/03/mb-li-trial.html