Usually they were reading the share prices, and the bit of the paper with your article on was on the floor, or something like that, and you know, "For heaven's sake, what are they doing!
通常他们是在看股票价格， 而你的文章所在的那一页报纸 被铺在地上，或者类似的地方， 于是你很自然就会想：“天哪，他们在干什么！