BTT: "Desperation"

This week's "Booking Through Thursday" query:

• What’s the most desperate thing you’ve read because it was the only available reading material?
• If it was longer than a cereal box or an advertisement, did it turn out to be worth your while?
  

I'm really not sure what it could have been. Probably some pamphlet in a waiting room somewhere, and I can't remember - or have blocked it out - because it wasn't worth the time, just something to do as an alternative to staring into space.

Seriously, this is a situation I try to avoid at all costs, and it's why I carry a book with me everywhere.

You never know when you'll be stuck somewhere...