I guess it must be something missing in my genes that I don't have the
constant urge to yak, yak, yak endlessly. All of the conversations I
overhear (not by choice - people seem to find it necessary to babble as
loudly as possible while using cellphones, regardless of how personal
their conversations are) are about virtually nothing at all. Are people
afraid to just be alone and think?
Mike
phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:01 PM, George Carr
<geo...@georgecarrstudio.com> wrote:
The New York Times had an article about pedestrians who are getting injured
while walking and using electronic devices. One teenager gave himself a
concussion by walking head-first into a pole!
A TV station here in the District of Columbia recently sent a camera
team out onto the streets for a couple of hours to get footage of
ordinary folks walking around town while talking on or gaping, slack
jawed, at the screen on their cell phones. They showed the results on
the evening news. A couple of people stumbling and falling down
stairs. One colliding with a park bench. One person walking into a
tree. A woman walking across a street against the light, causing an
oncoming truck to have to brake lest she get run over. Other assorted
collisions, accidents or near accidents. Funny, yet also very
pathetic.
Steve
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