Oh man, that's rough but honestly I wonder if the real issue is how book clubs are sold to people now. Libraries push them as "meet and chat" events instead of actually reading the book. The flyer probably said something like "casual discussion all are welcome" which basically invites people to show up without doing the work. If the librarian running it started by talking about the movie first, that set the tone for everyone else to just follow along. Did they actually try to steer the conversation back to the book at all or did they just let the movie talk happen?

My mom told me to trim my shrubs three years ago and I finally did it last month.

Man, that's wild you mention that because it's the same story with a lot of things these days. We spend all this time building stuff the old way and then one extreme weather event shows us we gotta adapt or lose everything. It's like @wren_brown said, sometimes you gotta just go with what works now instead of what worked last year.

Man that's a good find. @drew_chen probably spent all day on that tire, bet it was a real pain. Saw a guy pull out a full shopping cart once.

Is "solid lesson" really the phrase for something so obvious you should already know it?