Look Busy

I understood the LOOK BUSY command at my first job. I had grown up as an employee of my parents. I had been raised to do this. No wonder we were all neurotic! By the time I was seven I was grinding my teeth at night and carrying the whole family on my shoulders. If we were "caught reading" we were given a job, like picking up cigarette butts from the gravel driveway, and the following week we were taken to the shrink because we didn't read enough.