Fall Into a Good Book (And Miss Your Stop)

I'll weigh in, but it's extra-nerdy: I was reading Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and missed my subway stop by two stops.

I also listened to a record once, back when people had walkmen and cassette tapes, and the record made me cry on the subway, which was embarrassing (it was Mark Lanegan's The Winding Sheet).

I was reading "Daughter of the Forest" by Juliet Mariller a few years ago. I was in the middle and there was a lot going on in Sorcha's adventure and I was awaiting a shuttle from the airport to my hotel in Detroit. I didn't even see the shuttle stop about three feet from where I was sitting. The next shuttle arrived an hour later and I found that I had missed the one I was supposed to be on! When I read the sequel "Son of Shadows" and Sorcha died I cried and sobbed so much that when my husband arrived home later that evening he thought someone in the family had died. All I could get out between sobs was "she died!" He couldn't believe I was so hysterical over a book character.

i do audiobooks while driving - and not that long ago was very engaged in a scene in the book i was listening to (new YA offering) and missed my turn while traveling across state...
and ended up driving an extra 2 hours till i could get looped around to get back to where i was headed in the first place!
and the second worst part - i'm over 50 and admitting to being heavily engaged in YA offerings...