I cannot count the number of times that I have heard the title of this post when I asked someone "What was the last book/article/magazine that you read?"

Ask the unemployed guy next door, who apparently doesn't have time to mow his lawn either, get that reply.

Ask a "retired" person, the kind that never drives over 40 mph anywhere, anytime, and why? Because they are not in a hurry, all they have is time, just not for reading. Until they don't, of course.

Ask the young person, who spends three or more hours each day watching TV or gaming online, (and would spend much more, if you let them) and you will get the same answer:

"No time to read."

Seriously folks? You don't have five or ten minutes a day, or a WEEK to exercise your mind with the printed or digital word?

Or is it really something different? Another, more personal reason? Is it that you already know all that there is to know, or all that you care to know?

Is it the natural, "mental" extension of the physical sloth that infects much of the nation? That we are simply too lazy to read?

I for one would much rather hear the "truth" the next time I ask someone that question. I can handle it. How refreshing it would actually be!

"I'm too lazy."

"I already know everything."

"I'd rather 'waste' my time elsewhere."

But please not:

"I don't have time."

Unless you are the President . . .

you DO have the time.