I feel in sudden need of a shower after reading that.
She really is an unpleasant and uninformed sort of person.
So basically it was what I assumed, it was not the fact she was reading in public but the fact she was not paying a bit of attention to what was going on around her and preventing other people from being able to go on with their lives. She could have been sewing a sampler and gotten the same thing.
You are way too nice. Nah, I think she is just lying to make a more compelling storyline.